Matt Weston adds European title to World crown as British Skeleton stars win gold, silver and bronze in St Moritz
British Skeleton’s Matt Weston won his third gold medal in as many days as he added the European title to his World crown in St Moritz, while Tabby Stoecker won continental silver in the women’s race.
Jacob Salisbury and Freya Tarbit also bagged European bronze in the team race, pipping compatriots Marcus Wyatt and Amelia Coltman to the podium by one-hundredth of a second.
The penultimate IBSF World Cup before the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games, which doubled as the European Championships, saw Weston – who trains at the University of Bath – follow up his emphatic World Cup victory in Wednesday’s rearranged race on the same track with another dominant performance.
His combined time of 2:16.58 put Weston nearly a second clear of the field and secured both his fifth World Cup gold from six races this season and a second continental title of his career, meaning he will head to the Olympics next month as both World and European Champion.
Wyatt, the 2024 European Champion, placed ninth overall and sixth in the European standings, while Salisbury was the ninth European finisher as he recorded a season-best World Cup raking of 13th.
The women’s race in the morning saw Stoecker produce two consistent runs to place fourth in 1:10.92 and finish as the second European slider behind overall winner Kim Meylemans of Belgium. Coltman and Tarbit were 10th and 12th respectively, putting them sixth and seventh in the European standings.
A busy day concluded with the mixed team race where the British pairings finished fourth and fifth in the overall World Cup race but moved up a spot in the European rankings.
The World Cup and European Championships action continues over the weekend with the bobsleigh races.
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.
Photo credit: IBSF | Viesturs Lacis
