| Boys at the I Winter Youth Olympic Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck | ||||||||||||
| Date | January 21 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 14 from 13 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 1:52.73 | ||||||||||||
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| Skeleton at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics | ||
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The boys competition of the skeleton events at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, was held on January 21, at the Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck. 14 athletes from 13 different countries took part in this event. [1]
| Rank | Bib | Athletes | Country | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | Behind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 4 | Sebastian Berneker |  Germany | 56.20 | 56.53 | 1:52.73 | – |
 | 6 | Stefan Geisler |  Austria | 57.11 | 57.59 | 1:54.70 | +1.97 |
 | 12 | Corey Gillies |  Canada | 58.35 | 57.47 | 1:55.82 | +3.09 |
| 4 | 1 | Cosmin Chioibaşu |  Romania | 57.97 | 57.89 | 1:55.86 | +3.13 |
| 5 | 13 | Sacha Berger |  Switzerland | 59.02 | 58.66 | 1:57.68 | +4.95 |
| 6 | 9 | Valeriy Myshaev |  Russia | 58.26 | 59.45 | 1:57.71 | +4.98 |
| 7 | 3 | Anthony Herringshaw |  United States | 59.00 | 59.16 | 1:58.16 | +5.43 |
| 8 | 11 | Dāvis Dreimanis |  Latvia | 59.22 | 59.24 | 1:58.46 | +5.73 |
| 9 | 14 | Dan Sato |  Japan | 59.55 | 59.34 | 1:58.89 | +6.16 |
| 10 | 7 | Hiroki Nokura | Japan | 59.92 | 59.80 | 1:59.72 | +6.99 |
| 11 | 5 | Ferdinando Mulassano |  Italy | 59.86 | 59.94 | 1:59.80 | +7.07 |
| 12 | 8 | Kim Ban-seok |  South Korea | 1:01.34 | 59.08 | 2:00.42 | +7.69 |
| 13 | 2 | Marc Alcaraz |  Spain | 1:00.98 | 1:01.40 | 2:02.38 | +9.65 |
| 14 | 10 | Josué Montiel |  Mexico | 1:01.85 | 1:02.52 | 2:04.37 | +11.64 |
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