British Skeleton’s Matt Weston completes World Cup title treble as Marcus Wyatt and Tabby Stoecker secure overall bronze medals
Matt Weston will have chance to complete a full set of men’s skeleton titles at the Winter Olympics next month after securing his third successive IBSF Overall World Cup crown in Altenberg, Germany.
Team-mate Marcus Wyatt joined him on the overall podium after producing two outstanding runs to win gold in the last World Cup of 2025-26 and Tabby Stoecker became the first British woman since double Olympic Champion Lizzy Yarnold to win an Overall World Cup medal after placing third in the women’s rankings.
More history was made in the mixed team race as Great Britain became the first nation to win Overall World Cup gold in the new discipline that will make its Olympic debut next month.
A dramatic men’s race saw Weston – who, along with his British Skeleton team-mates, trains at the University of Bath – finish behind Wyatt in a three-way tie for silver with Germany’s Christopher Grotheer and Axel Jungk.
That was more than enough to see Weston top the rankings for a third year running after winning five gold and two silver from seven races during a dominant campaign. It means Weston will head to the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games as the reigning World Champion, European Champion and Overall World Cup Champion.
The only man to finish ahead of Weston this season is fellow Brit Wyatt, who secured his second gold of the World Cup campaign in 1:50:47 having set a new track record of 55.17 on the first run. That meant he won bronze overall, securing the third podium finish of his career in the World Cup rankings.
It is also the first time ever that one nation has won all the races during a Skeleton World Cup season.
The women’s race on Friday morning saw Stoecker finish on the wider podium for a fifth time in seven World Cup races as she placed sixth in 1:55.43, enough to secure overall bronze after an impressive campaign.
Freya Tarbit and Amelia Coltman were ninth and 12th respectively in Altenberg, meaning they both finished on 944 points overall along with Brazil’s Nicole Silveira of Brazil. The countback system meant that Silveira placed ninth, Coltman 10th and Tarbit 11th in the final rankings.
The mixed team race saw Coltman and Weston, in GBR2, combine to win a superb silver. Tarbit and Wyatt were fifth in GBR1, which was enough to secure top spot in the overall ranking after four 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.
