| Men at the IBSF World Championships 2020 | ||||||||||
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| Venue | Altenberg bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track | |||||||||
| Location | Altenberg, Germany | |||||||||
| Dates | 27–28 February | |||||||||
| Competitors | 32 from 15 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 3:44.81 | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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| IBSF World Championships 2020 | |||
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| Two | men | women | |
| Four | men | ||
| Skeleton | men | women | Mixed |
The Men competition at the IBSF World Championships 2020 was held on 27 and 28 February 2020. [1] [2]
The first two runs were held on 27 February at 10:00. [3] The last two runs were held on 28 February at 13:04. [4]
| Rank | Bib | Athlete | Country | Run 1 | Rank | Run 2 | Rank | Run 3 | Rank | Run 4 | Rank | Total | Behind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 19 | Christopher Grotheer |  Germany | 56.17 | 2 | 55.86 | 1 | 56.56 | 4 | 56.22 | 5 | 3:44.81 | |
 | 9 | Axel Jungk | Germany | 56.15 | 1 | 56.23 | 3 | 56.41 | 1 | 56.04 | 1 | 3:44.83 | +0.02 |
 | 8 | Alexander Gassner | Germany | 56.21 | 3 | 55.91 | 2 | 56.54 | 3 | 56.20 | 4 | 3:44.86 | +0.05 |
| 4 | 4 | Martins Dukurs |  Latvia | 56.30 | 4 | 56.25 | 4 | 56.77 | 6 | 56.06 | 2 | 3:45.38 | +0.57 |
| 5 | 6 | Felix Keisinger | Germany | 56.66 | 7 | 56.35 | 7 | 56.46 | 2 | 56.14 | 3 | 3:45.61 | +0.80 |
| 6 | 7 | Yun Sung-bin |  South Korea | 56.47 | 5 | 56.45 | 8 | 56.66 | 5 | 56.33 | 6 | 3:45.91 | +1.10 |
| 7 | 10 | Tomass Dukurs | Latvia | 56.75 | 8 | 56.34 | 6 | 56.88 | 9 | 56.66 | 10 | 3:46.63 | +1.82 |
| 8 | 5 | Aleksandr Tretyakov |  Russia | 57.00 | 12 | 56.31 | 5 | 56.77 | 6 | 56.85 | 12 | 3:46.93 | +2.12 |
| 9 | 13 | Nikita Tregubov | Russia | 56.90 | 9 | 56.49 | 9 | 57.18 | 11 | 56.51 | 8 | 3:47.08 | +2.27 |
| 10 | 11 | Marcus Wyatt |  Great Britain | 57.03 | 13 | 56.91 | 13 | 56.84 | 8 | 56.37 | 7 | 3:47.15 | +2.34 |
| 11 | 17 | Yan Wengang |  China | 56.64 | 6 | 57.07 | 16 | 57.25 | 12 | 56.95 | 14 | 3:47.91 | +3.10 |
| 12 | 12 | Kim Ji-soo | South Korea | 56.93 | 11 | 56.76 | 12 | 57.51 | 16 | 57.07 | 15 | 3:48.27 | +3.46 |
| 13 | 16 | Evgeniy Rukosuev | Russia | 56.91 | 10 | 57.13 | 19 | 57.44 | 14 | 56.87 | 13 | 3:48.35 | +3.54 |
| 14 | 18 | Vladyslav Heraskevych |  Ukraine | 57.25 | 15 | 57.12 | 18 | 57.36 | 13 | 56.64 | 9 | 3:48.37 | +3.56 |
| 15 | 29 | Matt Weston | Great Britain | 57.26 | 16 | 56.66 | 10 | 57.72 | 21 | 56.82 | 11 | 3:48.46 | +3.65 |
| 16 | 15 | Jung Seung-gi | South Korea | 57.31 | 17 | 57.01 | 14 | 57.17 | 10 | 57.34 | 18 | 3:48.83 | +4.02 |
| 17 | 25 | Florian Auer |  Austria | 57.32 | 18 | 56.74 | 11 | 57.93 | 23 | 57.17 | 16 | 3:49.16 | +4.35 |
| 18 | 26 | Nathan Crumpton |  American Samoa | 57.93 | 26 | 57.05 | 15 | 57.46 | 15 | 57.17 | 16 | 3:49.61 | +4.80 |
| 19 | 23 | Samuel Maier | Austria | 57.40 | 19 | 57.39 | 20 | 57.60 | 18 | 57.46 | 19 | 3:49.85 | +5.04 |
| 20 | 20 | Craig Thompson | Great Britain | 57.53 | 20 | 57.10 | 17 | 57.54 | 17 | 58.09 | 20 | 3:50.26 | +5.45 |
| 21 | 14 | Geng Wenqiang | China | 57.18 | 14 | 57.66 | 23 | 57.92 | 22 | Did not advance | |||
| 22 | 24 | Austin Florian |  United States | 57.58 | 22 | 57.71 | 26 | 57.63 | 19 | ||||
| 23 | 1 | Dave Greszczyszyn |  Canada | 57.74 | 23 | 57.49 | 21 | 57.98 | 24 | ||||
| 24 | 22 | Chen Wenhao | China | 58.45 | 28 | 57.66 | 23 | 57.66 | 20 | ||||
| 25 | 2 | Kevin Boyer | Canada | 57.79 | 25 | 57.69 | 25 | 58.40 | 26 | ||||
| 26 | 27 | Mattia Gaspari |  Italy | 57.78 | 24 | 57.90 | 27 | 58.31 | 25 | ||||
| 27 | 30 | Andrew Blaser | United States | 57.54 | 21 | 57.58 | 22 | 58.94 | 30 | ||||
| 28 | 3 | Mihail Sebastian Enache |  Romania | 58.56 | 29 | 57.94 | 28 | 58.55 | 28 | ||||
| 29 | 31 | Basil Sieber |  Switzerland | 59.11 | 31 | 58.42 | 30 | 58.66 | 29 | ||||
| 30 | 28 | Samuel Keiser | Switzerland | 58.59 | 30 | 58.63 | 31 | 59.12 | 31 | ||||
| 31 | 21 | Amedeo Bagnis | Italy | 1:00.04 | 32 | 58.25 | 29 | 58.46 | 27 | ||||
| 32 | Ander Mirambell |  Spain | 58.25 | 27 | Did not start | ||||||||
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