Olympic team named for Cortina
Team GB have named six World Championship medalists in their 13-strong bobsleigh and skeleton squad for the upcoming Milano Cortina Olympic Winter Games.
Reigning World Champion Matt Weston headlines the skeleton selections alongside world No3s Marcus Wyatt and Tabby Stoecker, with Amelia Coltman and Freya Tarbit also selected as GB celebrate qualifying three female athletes for the first time since the sport was reintroduced to the Olympic fold in 2022.
Brad Hall and Adelé Nicoll pilot the men’s and women’s bobsleigh teams, with their push athletes featuring two previous Winter Olympians, a Summer Olympian and three first-time Olympians as they look for a first medal since Sochi 2014.
Weston became the first British man to win a hat-trick of Overall World Cup titles last week, a year after he won the second of his back-to-back World Championship golds, while fellow Beijing Olympian Wyatt won World Championship and Overall World Cup silver in 2025 and Overall World Cup bronze on Friday.
Olympic debutants Stoecker, Coltman and Tarbit have also written their own bit of British history after they ended the season ranked third, 10th and 11th in the world to ensure GB joins Germany as the only two nations to have three female sliders in the 25-strong Olympic field.
All three British women have won World Cup gold medals during this Olympic cycle and they also all played their part in helping the country take the first-ever mixed team Overall World Cup title alongside Wyatt this season. The mixed team event will make its Olympic debut in Cortina, with the team/s to be selected after the conclusion of the individual races.
Team GB will be hoping to build on previous skeleton medal winning success at five of the six most recent Olympic Games, with the country winning a total of seven medals, including three gold courtesy of Amy Williams in 2010 and Lizzy Yarnold in 2014 and 2018.
Hall pilots the men’s 2-man and 4-man bobsleigh team as he heads to his third Olympics, having competed in both disciplines in PyeongChang and Beijing.
The 35-year-old former decathlete is the most successful men’s World Cup pilot in British history, having collected no fewer than 30 race medals on the sport’s top circuit.
Hall’s brakeman in the 2-man team will be 2022 Olympian Taylor Lawrence, a serving Royal Marine with 25 World Cup medals to his name and with whom Hall won World Cup bronze in St Moritz earlier this month.
Leon Greenwood and Greg Cackett join up with Hall and Lawrence in the 4-man competition as they look to build on their fourth-place finish at the final World Cup race of the season in Altenberg last weekend.
Like Hall, Cackett will become a triple Olympian, while former Welsh 200m Champion Greenwood is selected for his first Games, having joined the squad at the start of this Olympic cycle.
The 4-man team ended the World Cup campaign ranked No4 in the world, after finishing second in the standings in 2023 and third in 2025, while the 2-man team were second in 2025, third in 2023 and sixth this season.
Alex Cartagena, an engineer in the Royal Air Force who competed for GB1 this season, is named as the alternate for what will be his first Olympic experience.
Nicoll will pilot the women’s team and compete in the monobob as she becomes an Olympian for the first time after traveling to the last Games as the spare brakewoman behind Montell Douglas.
Having stepped up to the driver’s seat post Beijing, the reigning British shot put champion has medalled at World Cup and Europa Cup level during this cycle, most recently winning Europa Cup gold and bronze in Igls last week.
Nicoll will be pushed by former sprinter Ashleigh Nelson as she matches Douglas in becoming both a Summer and Winter Olympian, having been to Beijing in 2008 and Tokyo 12 years later. Nelson only joined the GB set up in the summer of 2024 but the 34-year-old World, European and Commonwealth Games medalist earns selection ahead of 21-year-old Kya Placide, who is selected as the traveling alternate.
Team GB bobsleigh
2-man bobsleigh
Brad Hall and Taylor Lawrence
4-man bobsleigh
Brad Hall, Leon Greenwood, Taylor Lawrence and Greg Cackett
Alternate: Alex Cartagena
Monobob
Adelé Nicoll
Women’s bobsleigh
Adelé Nicoll and Ashleigh Nelson
Alternate: Kya Placide
Team GB skeleton
Men’s skeleton
Matt Weston
Marcus Wyatt
Women’s skeleton
Amelia Coltman
Tabby Stoecker
Freya Tarbit
Mixed team skeleton
Team announced after the individual races have been completed
Natalie Dunman, Executive Performance Director, British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association
“We head to Cortina after a really positive Olympic Cycle in which both sports have won multiple World Championship and World Cup medals. The squad have demonstrated their strength in depth, with those medals shared across both bobsleigh and skeleton and across the men’s and women’s teams, and the athletes have regularly shown that they can compete with the best in the world.
“We believe we have a solid platform for success in Italy but we know that repeating those performances on the Olympic stage will require a huge effort from all the athletes and staff. We are quietly confident that we can do the country proud but we certainly won’t be taking anything for granted and we know that we will have to be at our very best if we are to achieve our aims next month.”
Matt Weston
“I couldn’t really have wished for too much of a better season going into the Olympics. I’m obviously picking up on the things I need to improve because I’m a perfectionist but I’m pleased with how the year has gone for me personally and for us as a team, especially after my injury in the summer.
“Every single one of us has had good results and we’ve been consistent across the whole season and that’s a great position for us to be in. We know the Olympics is the big goal and what happened in the season doesn’t count once we get to Cortina ,but we’re in a good place and we’re genuinely looking forward to get out there, getting going and continuing to perform.
“We missed out on kitting out and activities like this going into Beijing and we missed out on having fans on the ground for those Games, too, so there’s an added sense of excitement this time around. I’m really excited to have friends and family out there with me and I can’t wait to experience the Olympic environment without the restrictions we had in Beijing.”
Tabby Stoecker
“Getting selected for my first Olympic Games is a dream come true. I feel so incredibly proud of my journey up to this point and I can’t wait to represent my country in Cortina.”
Brad Hall
“I’m excited to go to my third Olympic Games. The last one was a bit disappointing because of Covid but it’s great that things are now back to normal and it’s brilliant that family and friends will be able to get out to Cortina to support us.
“Excitement is really starting to build with events like kitting out - these sort of days really remind you how special an Olympics is.
“The track in Cortina is looking good and we’re looking forward to getting out there. You need a good mix of start speed and driving ability in Cortina and we know that we have the right skills to do well there if we can be consistent over all four runs.
“We’ve been disrupted by injury this season but we’re building nicely and ended the World Cup campaign with some good results, so we’re excited to get out there and really challenge for a medal.”
Adelé Nicoll
“I can’t express how proud I feel to be representing and Team GB and Wales on the biggest stage possible. Competing at an Olympic Games is something I dreamt of as a child and my family have always supported me and encouraged me to chase that dream. Things like this didn’t really seem possible growing up but my family made me believe that there were no limitations to what you could achieve. It’s crazy to think that it’s been 20 years since I wrote on a piece of paper in primary school that I wanted to be an Olympic athlete one day!
“I went to the last Games as the reserve and that was a hard thing to experience being so close to my goal but with no guarantees that I’d ever get there in the future. It’s been an incredible journey so to be bouncing back from the injuries I’ve had to get here is something I’m really, really proud of.
“This isn’t something I’ve been able to do alone: I’ve had a lot of support from other athletes, coaches staff, sponsors, friends and family and, from the bottom of my heart, I want to say ‘thank you’ to everyone who’s supported me and made it happen.”