The British Skeleton team made history in 2026 when they became the first sport to win more than one gold medal for Great Britain at a single Olympic Winter Games.

Matt Weston won the men’s race in spectacular style before teaming up with Tabby Stoecker to triumph in the inaugural mixed team competition.

That dramatic double success in Milan Cortina is the latest in a long line of Olympic highlights for a team that has now won no fewer than five golds and 11 Olympic medals, making the podium at six of the seven Games since the sport’s reintroduction to the Olympic family in 2002.

The hard work first paid off when Alex Coomber won Olympic bronze at Salt Lake City in 2002 and more Olympic success followed in the next cycle, with Shelley Rudman winning a silver medal at Turin in 2006.

A run of three successive Olympic golds began in 2010, when Amy Williams became Team GB’s first female Olympic Champion in any sport for 58 years.

Lizzy Yarnold won back-to-back golds in Sochi in 2014 and PyeongChang in 2018 as she became the first British Winter Olympian to claim multiple titles.

The 2018 Olympic campaign saw wider British Skeleton success, too, as the team brought an unprecedented hat-trick of medals home from South Korea. Dom Parsons’ bronze was a first in the men’s event since 1948 before bronze for Laura Deas alongside Yarnold’s gold created yet more history as two British athletes stood on the same Winter Olympic podium for the very first time.

Britain had previously won a brace of bronze medals in skeleton’s early years as an Olympic sport before a long absence, with David Carnegie finishing third in St Moritz in 1928 and John Crammond following suit at the same venue 20 years later.