The 31-year-old clocked an overall time of 1min 46.49sec to triumph at the first IBSF event since the governing body confirmed it would strip its 2017 World Championships from Sochi, the scene of Tretiakov’s Olympic gold medal-winning performance three years ago, following evidence of state-sponsored doping in Russia in the second part of the McLaren Report.

Tretiakov finished 0.43 seconds ahead of home favourite Matthew Antoine, whose runners-up finish was his best at a World Cup since his maiden victory in Lake Placid in December 2013.

World Championship bronze medallist Sungbin Yun of South Korea, winner of the opening World Cup race in Whistler in Canada, held a close lead following the first heat before eventually finishing 0.45 seconds behind in third.

Tretiakov leads the overall World Cup standings with 435 points after the second of eight races.

Yun is second on 425 points, while Antoine is third on 410.

The US enjoyed success in the two other events held today as Steven Holcomb won the two-man bobsleigh event and Jamie Greubel Poser prevailed in the women’s bobsleigh.

Holcomb and brakesman Sam McGuffie achieved the fastest time in both their heats to triumph in 1:49.47.

Canada’s Justin Kripps and Jesse Lumsden were 0.27 seconds behind in the runners-up spot, while compatriots Chris Spring and Lascelles Brown finished 0.28 seconds off the pace in third.

American Justin Olsen and brakesman Evan Weinstock were in second place following the first heat, but ended up in eighth place after the second. 

Kripps, fourth at the opening race in Whistler, has now taken the lead in the overall World Cup standings on 402 points.

Defending World Cup winner Yunjong Won of South Korea finished fourth in Lake Placid and is second in the overall standings on 392 points.

Swiss pilot Rico Peter, sixth today, is in third place on 386 points.

In the women’s bobsleigh, Greubel Poser and brakeswoman Aja Evans set a track record time of 55.81 on their way to victory in 1:52.02.

The Olympic bronze medallists improved on the two-year-old mark by almost half-a-second.

Their team-mates Elana Meyers Taylor, the 2015 world champion, and Lolo Jones were 0.14 seconds behind in the runners-up spot.

Olympic champion Kaillie Humphries of Canada and brakeswoman Cynthia Appiah came third, 1.03 seconds behind.

Greubel Poser and Humphries are level on 425 points at the top of the overall World Cup standings.

Austria’s Christina Hengster, sixth in Lake Placid, is in third place on 386 points.

Action in Lake Placid is due to continue tomorrow with the women’s skeleton and four-man bobsleigh events.