MARCUS WYATT
British Skeleton Athlete
About Marcus
Marcus Wyatt is the current World Championship silver medalist, Overall World Cup silver medalist and a former European Champion.
Marcus finished second in the overall standings behind team-mate Matt Weston last term, before winning World Championship silver in Lake Placid in March when he and Weston became the first Brits to make the global podium at the same time.
He won the European title in Sigulda in February 2024, a season after winning Overall World Cup bronze when he again podiumed alongside Weston.
Having claimed the country’s first men's World Cup medal since 2013 when he won bronze in Sigulda in November 2020, he recorded his maiden World Cup win in Whistler in the 2022/23 season and, by the end of the 2024/25 campaign, he had 12 individual World Cup medals to his name.
He won World Cup team gold twice last term, taking top spot with Tabby Stoecker in Altenberg and again with Amelia Coltman in Lillehammer.
He represented Team GB at the Beijing Olympic Winter Games in February 2022, finishing 16th on his debut in China four years after he attended the PyeongChang Olympics in a spectator capacity as part of the British Olympic Association's Ambitions Programme.
A race winner on the sports's second-tier circuit, the Intercontinental Cup (ICC), in Igls in November 2018, Marcus made his World Cup debut at the same venue 11 months earlier in December 2017 when he finished a hugely impressive 10th in his first elite-level outing.
His first ever race in GB colours saw him finish fifth in the North American Cup (NAC) in Lake Placid in March 2016 and his first international medals followed the next season with silver on both the NAC circuit in Park City and the ICC in Placid.
Marcus joined the GB set up through the Power2Podium talent ID scheme in the aftermath of the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014 but his sporting background is somewhat different to most of his contemporaries in that his first love was American Football. A regular MVP for the Farnham Knights and Swansea University Titans as a wide receiver, Marcus led the latter to the National Challenge Trophy in 2014.