Team gold for Stoecker & Wyatt

Great Britain made it a hat trick of World Cup medals in one day as Tabby Stoecker and Marcus Wyatt won team gold in Lillehammer on Friday evening.

Stoecker and Wyatt took top spot in the 16-team competition in Norway, just a couple of hours after Stoecker had secured silver in the women’s event following Matt Weston’s gold in the men’s race.

The British pair clocked a combined time of 1 minute 49.33 seconds, with Stoecker coming down as the fastest woman in 55.26 and Wyatt the quickest man in 54.07, to finish more than half a second ahead of their nearest rivals.

Gold in the second race of the season followed the same result in the campaign opener in Cortina last month and it takes GB’s World Cup and World Championship medal tally to seven in their last eight team races over the past three seasons.

The GB2 team of Freya Tarbit and Jacob Salisbury just missed out on a medal as they finished fourth in a time of 1 minute 50.14 seconds, with USA 1 and Germany 1 winning silver and bronze respectively.

Marcus Wyatt & Tabby Stoecker have won back-to-back team races

The team race consists of one female slider and one male slider racing after one another, with their runs combined to give an overall time.

Unlike the individual disciplines, the event features a reaction start where athletes are given a time penalty if they move too quickly.

The event will make its Olympic debut in Italy this coming February.  

The skeleton circuit now heads to Latvia for a double header on Thursday and Friday, before breaking for the Christmas period.

Bobsleigh takes centre stage in Lillehammer this weekend, with women's monobob on Saturday and 2-woman on Sunday and back-to back 4-man races on both days.