Olympic Champions Matt Weston and Tabby Stoecker and fellow British Skeleton global medallist Marcus Wyatt have been officially inducted into the University of Bath Hall of Fame for Sport. The ceremony took place during a celebratory event, hosted by Bath & North East Somerset Council (BANES), which recognised the outstanding achievements of British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association (BBSA) athletes, coaches and staff at the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games. The event, at The Guildhall in...
The University of Bath has been reaccredited as a UK Sport Elite Training Centre (ETC), recognising its ongoing role in supporting Olympic and Paralympic athletes to achieve success on the world stage. The accreditation, first awarded in 2023, highlights the University’s contribution to providing world-class daily training environments, bringing together high-quality facilities, expert practitioners and a strong performance culture to support athletes and coaches. As part of the UK Sport network of Elite Training Centres,...
University of Bath Director of Sport Stephen Baddeley has hailed the “phenomenal” achievements of the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association (BBSA) athletes who represented Team GB at the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games. Matt Weston became Britain's most decorated male Winter Olympian when he won two skeleton golds in three days, following up his emphatic victory in the men’s race with a historic triumph alongside Tabby Stoecker in the first-ever Olympic mixed team event. Freya...
Tabby Stoecker and Matt Weston have become the first-ever Olympic mixed team skeleton champions after a thrilling victory in the brand-new event. Freya Tarbit and Marcus Wyatt went mighty close to joining them on the podium, finishing just 11-hundredths outside the medal places in fourth. The result means Weston, an emphatic winner of the men’s title on Friday, is only the second British slider to win two Olympic titles – emulating double women’s champion Lizzy...
Tabby Stoecker, Freya Tarbit and Amelia Coltman all recorded top-10 finishes in the women’s skeleton on their Olympic debuts. Stoecker was the leading Brit as she completed her four runs in 3:50.48 to secure fifth place overall, with Tarbit three-tenths of a second behind her team-mate in seventh. The trio all recorded top-four placings across the individual heats, Coltman doing so during a strong final run to finish ninth overall. Stoecker said: "I just feel...
Matt Weston has written his name into the history books once again after becoming the first British male skeleton athlete to win Olympic gold. Weston set two new track records on the first day of competition and carried that magnificent form into the decisive third and fourth runs, his combined time of 3:43.33 putting him nearly a second clear of silver-medallist Axel Jungk of Germany. Success at the Cortina Sliding Centre means Weston is now...
Bobsleigh pilot Brad Hall has been selected as one of Team GB’s two flagbearers for the Opening Ceremony of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, taking place on Friday 6th February. Hall, who trains at the University of Bath, is heading to his third Olympic Games as the most successful men’s bobsleigh pilot in British history and will carry the Union Flag in the athlete parade in Cortina, the host venue of the sliding sports....
Thirteen bobsleigh and skeleton athletes who train at the University of Bath have today been selected to represent Team GB at the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Italy. Matt Weston and Marcus Wyatt, the only athletes to win gold on this season’s IBSF World Cup circuit, will go in the men’s skeleton, while GB has three Olympic debutants in the women’s skeleton – Amelia Coltman, Tabby Stoecker and Freya Tarbit. All five will be...
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...
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...
