Jon Montgomery (CAI 2000, Barrie Campus) has won the gold in men’s Skeleton. He was sitting in second with one race to go, but put in an amazing perfomance to take the gold at the Whistler Sliding Centre. He edged Latvia’s Martins Dukurs by just 0.07 seconds.
Dukurs who led the competition after Day 1, and through three runs was sitting 0.18s ahead of Jon, but Jon laid down a track record-setting time in his opening run on Friday to pull closer to that gold medal with one heat to go. And he saved his best start for last, clocking a time of 4.61s en route to a 52.36s run.
For further information on Jon and to view the video of his winning run and post-race interview, click here.
(picture courtesy of Emile Sanchez)
