| Boys' skeleton at the III Winter Youth Olympic Games | |
|---|---|
| Venue | St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun |
| Dates | 20 January |
| Competitors | 20 from 14 nations |
| Skeleton at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics | ||
|---|---|---|
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| boys | girls | |
The boys' skeleton event at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics will take place on 20 January at the St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun. [1]
| Rank | Bib | Athlete | Country | Run 1 | Rank 1 | Run 2 | Rank 2 | Total | Behind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | Lukas Nydegger |  | 1:08.59 | 1 | |||||
| 12 | Elvis Veinbergs |  | 1:09.33 | 2 | |||||
| 4 | Livio Summermatter |  | 1:09.90 | 3 | |||||
| 15 | Dmitrii Grevtsev |  | 1:10.27 | 4 | |||||
| 11 | Takanobu Usui |  | 1:10.29 | 5 | |||||
| 18 | Lee Seo-hyuk |  | 1:10.37 | 6 | |||||
| 20 | Sandro Mai |  | 1:10.41 | 7 | |||||
| 16 | Rasmus Johansen |  | 1:10.57 | 8 | |||||
| 14 | Timm Beiwinkler | | 1:10.73 | 9 | |||||
| 19 | Christian Jünemann | | 1:10.75 | 10 | |||||
| 6 | Lars Rumo | | 1:11.01 | 11 | |||||
| 3 | Colin Freeling |  | 1:11.06 | 12 | |||||
| 1 | Timon Drahoňovský |  | 1:11.47 | 13 | |||||
| 2 | Ryan Kuehn |  | 1:11.55 | 14 | |||||
| 8 | Dmitry Knysh | | 1:11.72 | 15 | |||||
| 10 | James McGuire |  | 1:12.40 | 16 | |||||
| 5 | Taido Nagao | | 1:13.13 | 17 | |||||
| 7 | Yang Po-wei |  | 1:13.58 | 18 | |||||
| 9 | Teddy Fitzsimons | | 1:14.32 | 19 | |||||
| 17 | Lucas Carvalho |  | 1:21.62 | 20 |
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