| Men's skeleton at the IV Winter Youth Olympic Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Alpensia Sliding Centre | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 23 January | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 20 from 12 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 1:44.66 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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The men's skeleton event at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics took place on 23 January at the Alpensia Sliding Centre. [1]
The first run was held at 17:30 and the second run at 18:30. [2]
| Rank | Bib | Athlete | Country | Run 1 | Rank 1 | Run 2 | Rank 2 | Total | Behind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 3 | Emīls Indriksons |  Latvia | 52.40 | 1 | 52.26 | 1 | 1:44.66 | |
 | 2 | Yaroslav Lavreniuk |  Ukraine | 52.89 | 3 | 52.78 | 2 | 1:45.67 | +1.01 |
 | 1 | Shin Yeon-su |  South Korea | 52.85 | 2 | 53.20 | 4 | 1:46.05 | +1.39 |
| 4 | 5 | Dāvis Valdovskis | Latvia | 53.06 | 5 | 53.10 | 3 | 1:46.16 | +1.50 |
| 5 | 7 | Emil Schäfer |  Germany | 53.05 | 4 | 54.02 | 7 | 1:47.07 | +2.41 |
| 6 | 6 | Theodor Buligescu |  Romania | 53.69 | 6 | 53.47 | 5 | 1:47.16 | +2.50 |
| 7 | 8 | Vinzenz Rosenberg | Germany | 54.16 | 8 | 53.59 | 6 | 1:47.75 | +3.09 |
| 8 | 4 | Luca Horațiu Ungureanu | Romania | 54.07 | 7 | 54.65 | 9 | 1:48.72 | +4.06 |
| 9 | 15 | Sander de Haan |  Netherlands | 54.51 | 9 | 54.74 | 10 | 1:49.25 | +4.59 |
| 10 | 17 | Eduardo Henke Strapasson |  Brazil | 55.00 | 11 | 54.94 | 11 | 1:49.94 | +5.28 |
| 11 | 19 | Felix de Wit | Netherlands | 55.63 | 14 | 54.42 | 8 | 1:50.05 | +5.39 |
| 12 | 10 | Daniel Pedersen |  Denmark | 55.56 | 12 | 55.38 | 12 | 1:50.94 | +6.28 |
| 13 | 9 | Peter Jedinák |  Slovakia | 54.60 | 10 | 56.44 | 14 | 1:51.04 | +6.38 |
| 14 | 13 | Noah Park |  United States | 55.62 | 13 | 56.05 | 13 | 1:51.67 | +7.01 |
| 15 | 18 | Lazar Mikić |  Serbia | 56.07 | 16 | 56.46 | 15 | 1:52.53 | +7.87 |
| 16 | 20 | Bogdan Despotović | Serbia | 56.15 | 17 | 56.90 | 18 | 1:53.05 | +8.39 |
| 17 | 16 | Tomás Palmezano |  Colombia | 56.53 | 18 | 56.81 | 17 | 1:53.34 | +8.68 |
| 18 | 11 | Baden Park | United States | 55.96 | 15 | 57.47 | 20 | 1:53.43 | +8.77 |
| 19 | 12 | Cauê Duarte Miota Gonçalves | Brazil | 57.21 | 19 | 57.10 | 19 | 1:54.31 | +9.65 |
| 20 | 14 | Vladyslav Klymenko | Ukraine | 58.08 | 20 | 56.49 | 16 | 1:54.57 | +9.91 |
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