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| Venue | Sliding Center Sanki | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 14–15 February | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 27 from 16 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 3:44.29 | ||||||||||||
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The men's skeleton event at the 2014 Winter Olympics took place at the Sliding Center Sanki on 14–15 February. [1]
The gold medal won in this event featured Chelyabinsk meteor fragments to commemorate the first anniversary of this meteor strike. [2]
In the first run, Aleksandr Tretyakov established the track record (55.95) and the start record (4.47). [3]
TR – Track Record. Top finish in each run is in boldface.
On 22 November 2017, gold medalist Aleksandr Tretyakov was stripped of his gold medal. [4] On 27 November 2017, the results by Sergey Chudinov were annulled as well. [5] On 1 February 2018, their results were restored as a result of the decision of CAS [6]
| Rank | Bib | Athlete | Country | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | Behind |
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 | 5 | Aleksandr Tretyakov |  Russia | 55.95 TR | 56.04 | 56.28 | 56.02 | 3:44.29 | |
 | 3 | Martins Dukurs |  Latvia | 56.18 | 56.37 | 56.26 | 56.29 | 3:45.10 | +0.81 |
 | 2 | Matthew Antoine |  United States | 56.89 | 56.95 | 56.69 | 56.73 | 3:47.26 | +2.97 |
| 4 | 4 | Tomass Dukurs | Latvia | 57.03 | 57.06 | 56.75 | 56.74 | 3:47.58 | +3.29 |
| 5 | 8 | Sergey Chudinov | Russia | 56.98 | 57.04 | 56.86 | 56.71 | 3:47.59 | +3.30 |
| 6 | 17 | Nikita Tregubov | Russia | 57.44 | 56.96 | 56.57 | 56.65 | 3:47.62 | +3.33 |
| 7 | 6 | John Fairbairn |  Canada | 57.34 | 56.92 | 56.91 | 56.96 | 3:48.13 | +3.84 |
| 8 | 11 | Kristan Bromley |  Great Britain | 57.24 | 57.02 | 57.17 | 56.74 | 3:48.17 | +3.88 |
| 9 | 7 | Alexander Kröckel |  Germany | 57.21 | 57.36 | 57.03 | 56.69 | 3:48.29 | +4.00 |
| 10 | 13 | Dominic Parsons | Great Britain | 57.23 | 57.17 | 57.00 | 56.96 | 3:48.36 | +4.07 |
| 11 | 1 | Frank Rommel | Germany | 57.19 | 56.95 | 57.33 | 57.00 | 3:48.47 | +4.18 |
| 12 | 10 | Hiroatsu Takahashi |  Japan | 57.53 | 57.10 | 57.13 | 56.98 | 3:48.74 | +4.45 |
| 13 | 14 | Eric Neilson | Canada | 57.41 | 57.01 | 57.25 | 57.10 | 3:48.77 | +4.48 |
| 14 | 16 | Matthias Guggenberger |  Austria | 57.70 | 57.12 | 57.24 | 56.94 | 3:49.00 | +4.71 |
| 15 | 9 | John Daly | United States | 56.91 | 56.67 | 56.99 | 58.54 | 3:49.11 | +4.82 |
| 16 | 18 | Yun Sungbin |  South Korea | 57.54 | 57.02 | 57.90 | 57.11 | 3:49.57 | +5.28 |
| 17 | 23 | John Farrow |  Australia | 57.84 | 57.73 | 57.75 | 57.35 | 3:50.67 | +6.38 |
| 18 | 20 | Maurizio Oioli |  Italy | 57.69 | 57.27 | 57.85 | 57.87 | 3:50.68 | +6.39 |
| 19 | 15 | Raphael Maier | Austria | 57.83 | 57.51 | 57.95 | 57.57 | 3:50.86 | +6.57 |
| 20 | 26 | Ben Sandford |  New Zealand | 58.00 | 57.75 | 57.79 | 57.67 | 3:51.21 | +6.92 |
| 21 | 12 | Kyle Tress | United States | 57.85 | 58.13 | 57.76 | 2:53.74 | ||
| 22 | 19 | Yuki Sasahara | Japan | 58.22 | 58.07 | 57.91 | 2:54.20 | ||
| 23 | 22 | Alexandros Kefalas |  Greece | 58.20 | 58.33 | 58.22 | 2:54.75 | ||
| 24 | 24 | Lee Hansin | South Korea | 58.41 | 58.12 | 58.64 | 2:55.17 | ||
| 25 | 27 | Dorin Dumitru Velicu |  Romania | 58.72 | 58.44 | 58.91 | 2:56.07 | ||
| 26 | 25 | Ander Mirambell |  Spain | 58.58 | 58.72 | 58.80 | 2:56.10 | ||
| 27 | 21 | Sean Greenwood |  Ireland | 57.99 | 65.11 | 58.22 | 3:01.32 |
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