Three-time world champion Martins Dukurs clocked a time of 52.15sec on his first run to beat the old record of 52.20, set by Canada’s Jon Montgomery during his Olympic victory at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

Tomass Dukurs then went on to improve the track record again with a time of 52.11 on his second run, but it wasn’t enough to deny his younger brother victory on the day.

Martins Dukurs' overall time of 1:44.31 bettered Tomass Dukurs’ by 0.28 seconds, while South Korea’s Sungbin Yun was third, 0.93 seconds back.  

A sixth World Cup victory in as many races this season puts Martins Dukurs on a perfect score of 1,350 points in the overall rankings.

Yun is second on 1,140 points, while Tomass Dukurs is third on 1,138.

Following on from the men’s skeleton race in the Canadian town, home favourite Kaillie Humphries and her brakewoman Melissa Lotholz won the women’s bobsleigh event. 

The two-time world champion and double Olympic champion registered a time of 1:45.37 to achieve a fourth win of the campaign.

The United States’ Jamie Greubel Poser and her brakewoman Cherrelle Garrett were second, 0.15 seconds behind, while Austria’s Christina Hengster and her brakewoman Sanne Dekker celebrated their third consecutive podium finish by coming third, 0.27 seconds back.

Greubel Poser’s first run time of 52.77 saw her break the track record set by Humphries for her Vancouver 2010 Olympic win.

But Humphries ultimately managed to regain the record on her second run, clocking 52.66. 

After the sixth of eight World Cup races, Humphries leads the standings on 1,310 points ahead of Greubel Poser on 1,260 and Hengster on 1,186.

There was also a two-man bobsleigh race today as local hero Chris Spring claimed his first World Cup victory with a time of 1:42.76.

Following two runs, Spring and brakeman Lascelles Brown held a 0.20 second lead over the Latvian pairing of Ugis Zalims and Intars Dambis, who achieved their first podium finish of the season.

Alexander Kasjanov and Alexei Pushkarev of Russia finished third, 0.24 seconds behind, and managed to set a new track record of 51.31 during the first round.  

The old record was set by the German pairing of Thomas Florschütz and Richard Adjei on their way to becoming silver medallists at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. 

South Korea’s Yunjong Won, who followed up his victory yesterday by finishing ninth, continues to lead the overall World Cup standings on 1,153 points.

Second place is shared by Germany’s Nico Walther, who finished sixth today, and Zalims on 1,074 points each.