Height 1.78 m Siblings Tomass Dukurs Education University of Latvia | Name Martins Dukurs Parents Dainis Dukurs Sport Skeleton Weight 66 kg | |
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Born 31 March 1984 (age 40) ( 1984-03-31 ) Riga, Latvia Similar People Tomass Dukurs, Alexander Tretiakov, Dainis Dukurs, Matthew Antoine, Jon Montgomery | ||
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Martins Dukurs (born 31 March 1984) is a Latvian skeleton racer who has competed since 1998. He is the reigning and five-time world champion in men's skeleton and has won Olympic silver medals at Vancouver 2010 and Sochi 2014, as well as eight World Cup titles.
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Career
Dukurs finished seventh in the men's skeleton event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and sixth in the men's skeleton event at the 2007 FIBT World Championships in St. Moritz. He won the gold medal in the men's event at the 2011 FIBT World Championships, 2012 FIBT World Championships, 2015 FIBT World Championships, 2016 FIBT World Championships and 2017 FIBT World Championships.
Martins won the overall World Cup for the 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16 season and 2016–17 season.
At the end of the 2016–17 Skeleton World Cup season he had 48 World Cup race victories.
His older brother Tomass is also a skeleton racer. Both he and his brother qualified for the 2010 Winter Olympics and the 2014 Winter Olympics. In 2010 Martins Dukurs was decorated with the Order of the Three Stars.
Martins and Tomass' father, Dainis Dukurs, is a former bobsleigh brakeman, former manager of the Sigulda sledding track, sled designer and coach of the Latvian skeleton team.