Aleksandr Tretyakov (skeleton racer)


Aleksandr Vladimirovich Tretyakov is a Russian skeleton rider. Tretyakov is Olympic champion, World champion, European champion as well as two-times winner of the Skeleton World Cup, which he won in 2008–09 and 2018–19.

Career

Tretyakov is the first Russian who won the World Championships, the overall Skeleton World Cup and an Olympics bronze medal. He is the silver medalist of the 2011 World Championships in Königssee and 2015 World Championships in Winterberg, as well as of bronze medalist of the 2009 World Championships in Lake Placid and 2015 World Championships in Winterberg. In 2013 in St. Moritz, he became the world champion.
At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Tretyakov won three out of four runs, established track and start records, and became the champion ahead of Martins Dukurs, who was universally considered to be the strongest gold medal contender. This was the first gold medal in skeleton for Russia. To sleep well before the second day of the competitions, Tretyakov downloaded on his cell phone the series of Russian Wikipedia articles on the economy of the Tsardom of Russia and fell asleep while reading them.
Tretyakov resides in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. His wife Anastasia is a former skeleton rider. Their daughter was born in 2013.

Controversy

Tretyakov's bottles of urine had scratch marks so he was provisionally suspended in 2016. On 22 November 2017, he was disqualified from the 2014 Winter Olympics and had his gold medal stripped from him. On 1 February 2018, the ban was overturned and his results were restored as a result of the successful appeal.

World Cup results

All results are sourced from the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation.
Season123456789PointsPlace
2004–05WIN
32		ALT
37		IGL
19		SIG
33		CES
39		STM
39		LKP
26		2334th
2005–06CAL
9		LKP
29		IGL
28		SIG
10		KON
38		STM
32		ALT
—		9224th
2006–07CAL
2		PKC
3		LKP
15		NAG
—		IGL
1		CES
—		WIN
1		KON
2		4873rd
2007–08CAL
10		PKC
7		LKP
19		CES1
15		CES2
12		STM
22		KON
13		WIN
—		79416th
2008–09WIN
2		ALT
9		IGL
2		KON
3		STM
9		WHI
9		PKC1
1		PKC2
1		15261st
2009–10PKC
11		LKP
7		CES
15		WIN
3		ALT
2		KON
12		STM
9		IGL
3		12988th
2010–11WHI
3		CAL
2		PKC
1		LKP
13		IGL
3		WIN
3		STM
23		CES
10		13495th
2011–12IGL
2		LPL
3		WIN
3		ALT
6		KON
5		STM
22		WHI
2		CAL
2		14464th
2012–13LKP
3		PKC
3		WHI
4		WIN
2		LPL
2		ALT
—		KON
3		IGL
2		SOC
2		16324th
2013–14CAL
2		PKC
1		LKP
2		WIN
3		STM1
4		STM2
7		IGL
2		KON
—		14154th
2014–15LKP
—		CAL
—		ALT
3		KON
1		STM
10		LAP
2		IGL
2		SOC
1		12147th
2015–16ALT
2		WIN
2		KON1
2		LKP
—		PKC
—		WHI
—		STM
5		KON2
—		81412th
2016–17WHI
2		LKP
1		ALT
—		WIN
3		STM
4		KON
1		IGL
2		PYE
4		14543rd
2017–18LKP
3		PKC
6		WHI
—		WIN
4		IGL
34		ALT
2		STM
4		KON
7		11389th
2018–19SIG
4		WIN
1		ALT
1		KON
IGL
4		STM
2		LKP
1		CAL1
1		CAL2
2		17191st
2019–20LKP1
3		LKP2
1		WIN
7		LPL
1		IGL
3		KON
1		STM
6		SIG
5		16032nd