Team Gold Caps Dazzling Day

British Skeleton’s sensational World Cup season ended with another Overall World Cup crown as they took mixed team gold on Friday night.

The GB 1 team finished top of the pile after four races to make it four overall medals in one day after Matt Weston won men’s gold, Marcus Wyatt men’s bronze and Tabby Stoceker women’s bronze across an amazing few hours of racing in Altenberg.

The mixed team event, which will make its Olympic debut in Milan Cortina next month, features a new reaction start system and sees one man and one woman have one run each, with their combined times deciding their finish position.

Leading nations can enter two teams in the race, with the make up of the GB1 and GB2 team differing from race to race rather than being set for the season.

Today’s GB 1 team of Freya Tarbit and Marcus Wyatt finished fifth in Germany, just as Wyatt and Amelia Coltman did in St Moritz last week, with Wyatt winning gold in both the previous events in Cortina and Lillehammer with Stoecker.

Those results meant GB1 finished on 818 points, 40 points in front of Germany 1 and a further eight ahead of USA 1 in the first season standings for the team competition.

Today’s GB2 team of Coltman and Weston finished second behind only the Germany 2 team of Susanne Kreher and Axel Jungk, meaning that GB 2 placed fifth overall after they came 10th in Cortina, fourth in Lillehammer and fourth in Moritz.

Germany 1 took bronze today and silver overall, with USA 1 claiming overall bronze after finishing fourth this afternoon.

The British Skeleton squad now travel back to the UK for a few days on home soil before heading back out to Europe at the end of the month for February’s showpiece event of the season, the Olympic Winter Games in Milan Cortina.