The women’s skeleton event at the 2014 Winter Olympics took place at the Sliding Center Sanki on 13–14 February. In the first run Lizzy Yarnold established the track record of 58.43 seconds and the start record of 4.95 seconds. The start record was improved to 4.89 seconds in the same run by Elena Nikitina. In the third run Yarnold improved her own track record to 57.91.