Nick Timmings

Fast Facts

Sport: Skeleton
Event: Men’s Skeleton
Olympic History: Beijing 2022, Milano Cortina 2026
Highlights: PB at Beijing 2022, 3x World Championship Appearances, Asian Championships Silver
Coach: Leonie Derby, Adam Wolski
Year Born: 1990

About Nick

Nick Timmings has come from a traditional sport background in sunny Perth to the extreme, and expensive, icy sport of skeleton. He showed great resilience at his first Olympic Winter Games in Beijing and now wants to inspire Aussie kids with a top-15 finish at the Cortina Sliding Centre in 2026. 

Nick is being coached by his twin brother Dean. 

Born in Western Australia, Nick found skeleton in his early twenties after years spent in athletics and soccer, drawn to the speed and precision of sliding head‑first down ice. Within months of taking up the sport in 2012 he was 13th at the World Junior Championships in Winterberg, and he returned to the junior worlds in 2014 to place 22nd in Innsbruck. Those early seasons confirmed to the Perth‑raised slider that he had the temperament for the sport’s exacting demands.  

Graduating from junior ranks, Nick represented Australia at the senior World Championships in 2015 and 2019, and in 2021 he made a third worlds appearance in Germany, finishing 25th. Over this period he honed his start, refined his driving, and set Australian track records at Igls and Whistler, working under coaches Leonie Derby and Adam Wolski.  

The climb to his Olympic debut was built on consistency in the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation’s continental circuits. Nick was runner‑up in the 2019 North American Cup overall standings and, two years later, sealed the 2021–22 North American Cup men’s title by winning the final two races at Lake Placid to edge Spain’s Ander Mirambell by two points. 

Form on the top tier followed. In December 2021, he produced a then‑career best 19th in the World Cup at Altenberg, a notoriously technical German track. In the final weeks before the Games he also placed 11th at an Intercontinental Cup in Altenberg, a result that underlined his readiness to handle the Yanqing ice. 

Beijing 2022 tested both nerve and resilience. After a difficult opening heat that included a heavy brush with the wall and left him last at the outset, Nick reset and drove back into the competition, clocking a personal‑best course time of 1:01.78 in his third run to close out his Olympic debut 25th overall. 

Post‑Olympics, he kept advancing. In March 2023 he won silver at the Open Asian Championships in PyeongChang, finishing behind Korea’s Hyungjun Kim in a deep international field. 

Nick’s 2024–25 pre‑Olympic campaign began brightly in Whistler, where he brought home the silver. He carried that form through the series to place third overall in the men’s North American Cup standings when the tour concluded in Lake Placid in January 2025. The podium across the season went to Andrew Whittier‑Neises (overall winner), Wengang Yan and Nick in third. He finished the season by placing 20th at the World Championships in Lake Placid, an impressive performance with room for improvement to execute four clean runs. 

Nick spent much of the Australian winter of 2025 training in Sydney to prepare for the Olympic season ahead. To achieve his qualification for Milano Cortina 2026, and give him the best chance of success, he has competed extensively on the World Cup, North American Cup and Asian Cup circuits since the start of November.  

The first World Cup of the season was on the new Cortina Sliding Centre, a technical track where the Olympics will be held. Despite some crucial mistake he was happy with his 28th place finish and the training time he had on the track before the competition. sliding centre. He then achieved podiums and top-10 results in North America and Asia across December and early January. At the second World Cup and last big competition before the Olympics he was 24th in Altenberg (GER).  

Away from the start grooves and high‑speed corners, Nick describes the funding grind as one of his career’s biggest challenges, periods where the choice was between paying for training runs or fully covering day‑to‑day costs. That hard road has shaped his approach to performance. 

With Australian records on two of the sport’s classic tracks, a first Olympic campaign marked by perseverance, and a second campaign with consistent results, Nick continues to press towards the next benchmark in an unforgiving, highly technical discipline. A sport where hundredths of a second define careers and where his steady, long‑term climb has him well placed for the Milano Cortina Games.