Matthew Antoine
Matthew Antoine ( born April 2, 1985 in Prairie du Chien ) is an American skeleton bob. Matthew Antoine lives in Prairie du Chien and operates Skeleton since 2003, after he had seen on television the successes of the U.S. starter at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City. Since 2005, the student is a member of the U.S. national team. His first major race was the American Cup in March 2004 in Lake Placid, where he was 21. It was not until the 2005/06 season, when he failed to qualify for the national competitions in the United States for the international races. In November of that year he made his debut in the Skeleton America's Cup and was at the race in Lake Placid ninth. Just one day later, he managed his second race as a third party already the jump on the podium. Not quite as successfully ran the race in Park City and Calgary, where he could not reach the top places in the overall standings. At the Junior World Championships of the season in Igls Antoine was ranked 12th
The following season he won all four races of the America 's Cup in Lake Placid and Park City and occupied only due to double-digit finishes in the two races in Calgary in second place behind the Briton Andy Wood in the overall standings. He then set off in Winterberg first time in a race as part of the skeleton Europa Cup and finished sixth. 2007 and 2008, Antoine was in the third U.S. Championships. With good performances in the qualifying race to the international competitions, Antoine could qualify for the 2007/ 08 season for the Skeleton Intercontinental newly created. Best Placements were here a third rank in Park City and winning the last race of the series in Lake Placid. Matt Antoine also won the overall title of the competition.
In February 2009, Antoine made his debut in the World Cup in Koenigssee and finished eighth. On his third World Cup race in Whistler, he finished third. At the 2009 World Championships he finished ninth. For the 2010 Olympics, he could not qualify. In the 2010/11 season he reached regularly results in the top 10, but without being on the podium. In the overall standings, he was seventh. At the World Cup he was also seventh.
At the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014, he won the bronze medal.