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IGLS, Austria (AP) Martins Dukurs of Latvia won all four heats to comfortably retain his skeleton world championship on Friday.
Dukurs led by more than a half-second after the opening day, and extended his advantage to more than a second in the final two heats, setting a track record of 52.09 seconds in the final run.
He sealed his fourth career world title.
Olympic champion Alexander Tretiakov of Russia and Yun Sung-bin of South Korea finished 1.13 seconds behind Dukurs to share second place.
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Earlier, Tina Hermann of Germany built a 0.16-second lead over European champion Janine Flock of Austria in the women's competition, which will be concluded on Saturday.
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