Education
Siberian State Technological University.
Siberian State Technological University.
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 (men"s skeleton event) and 2015 World Championships in Winterberg (Mixed team). This was the first gold medal in skeleton for Russia. To sleep well before the second day of the competitions, Tretiakov 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.
Alexander Tretiakov resides in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
Their daughter was born in 2013.
Tretiakov is the first Russian who won the World Championships (2013 in Street Moritz), the overall Skeleton World Cup (2008-2009) and an Olympics bronze medal (at the 2010 Winter Olympics). In 2013 in Saint Moritz, he became the word champion. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Tretiakov won three out of four runs, established track (5595) and start (447) records, and became the champion ahead of Martins Dukurs, who was universally considered to be the strongest gold medal contender.
