Another Matt Weston win and Tabby Stoecker’s superb silver continues British Skeleton’s stunning start to Olympic season
Matt Weston won his second gold of Olympic season and Tabby Stoecker claimed a superb silver as British Skeleton athletes once again excelled on the IBSF World Cup circuit, this time in Lillehammer.
Stoecker also secured her second team gold with Marcus Wyatt in as many races and there was a wider podium place for Freya Tarbit as the University of Bath-based GB squad made it five medals from two events at the start of the 2025-26 season.
Reigning World Champion Weston followed up his victory in the Olympic test event at Milano-Cortina by topping the men’s podium once again in Norway.
His success is all the more impressive as Weston, who has now won five of his past six international races, is still recovering from an injury which forced him to sit out all pre-season training on ice.
Wyatt was seventh, just two tenths shy of the medals, and Jacob Salisbury finished 14th thanks to an outstanding second run.
The women’s race in the afternoon saw Stoecker produce two rapid starts of 4.96 and 4.92 – the only athlete in the field to go under five seconds – and two ultra-consistent runs as she finished runner-up to defending World Cup title holder Janine Flock.
It is a third individual World Cup podium for Stoecker and completes her collection, adding to gold and bronze medals won in December 2023.
Team-mate Tarbit finished on the wider podium in the women’s race, placing fifth, and Amelia Coltman was 14th overall.
Stoecker was back on the ice less than an hour later and scorched to another team gold with Wyatt, the duo replicating their Cortina success in the new Olympic discipline as they finished more than half a second clear of the field. Tarbit and Salisbury went mighty close to joining their compatriots on the podium as they finished fourth.
The British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association (BBSA) is based at the University of Bath, a UK Sport-accredited Elite Training Centre, with the athletes doing their home training on the UK’s only outdoor push-start track, as well as in the gym and on the indoor sprint track at the Sports Training Village.
