Matt Weston went mighty close to winning a second IBSF Skeleton World Championship gold in 24 hours when he and Tabby Stoecker won silver for Great Britain in the team event. The GB1 team clocked a combined time of 1:54.53 to finish just one-tenth of a second behind Ro Mystique and Austin Florian of Team USA who took gold on home ice in Lake Placid. It was the second year running that Stoecker and newly-crowned...
British Skeleton’s Matt Weston has been crowned as World Champion for the second time after the University of Bath-based slider capped an outstanding pre-Olympic season with a dominant performance in Lake Placid. Silver-medallist Marcus Wyatt made it a British 1-2 as he once again joined Weston on the podium, the team-mates replicating the magnificent form that had also seen them place first and second in the Overall IBSF World Cup men’s standings. Weston, who has...
Matt Weston has been crowned as Overall World Cup Champion for a second successive year, while Marcus Wyatt and Amelia Coltman both won European Championships silver as University of Bath-based skeleton athletes continued a stellar pre-Olympic season. An eighth-placed finish in Lillehammer on Friday – the only time he has missed out on a medal during the 2024-25 season – was enough to secure top spot in the overall IBSF World Cup men’s rankings for...
University of Bath-based Matt Weston moved closer to a historic defence of his IBSF Overall World Cup crown after winning a second successive men’s skeleton gold, this time at the sport’s spiritual St Moritz home. The in-form Brit, who finished half-a-second clear of reigning Olympic Champion Christopher Grotheer in Switzerland, just needs a top-15 finish in the last World Cup race of the season to top the overall rankings again. Weston was back on the...
It was a golden start to 2025 for the University of Bath-based British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association as their athletes enjoyed double delight at the IBSF World Cup in Winterberg, Germany. Brad Hall, Taylor Lawrence, Arran Gulliver and Greg Cackett made history on Sunday, becoming the first non-German team to win four-man bobsleigh gold at Winterberg in 13 years. The Brits were fastest on both runs as they clocked a combined time of 1:48.07 to...
Olympic and Paralympic success in Paris is just one of the highlights of a truly monumental year of sport at the University of Bath. World Cup victories, European crowns, groundbreaking international debuts, emotional reunions, national accolades, innovative new partnerships and an extensive gym refurbishment are also among the many high points from an action-packed 2024. In total athletes brought 93 senior international medals back to their Team Bath training base, 17 of which were secured...
Marcus Wyatt and Matt Weston were top of the tree in the last IBSF Skeleton World Cup before Christmas as the University of Bath-based sliders won gold and silver respectively in Sigulda, Latvia. Wyatt produced the fastest starts and best times across both runs to secure his first individual victory of the 2024-25 season in a time of 1:39.51. British Skeleton team-mate Weston was just a quarter of a second behind after two equally consistent...
University of Bath-based skeleton athletes kicked off the European leg of the 2024-25 IBSF World Cup season in fine style by winning gold, silver and bronze in Altenberg, Germany. Tabby Stoecker and Marcus Wyatt (pictured) took top spot in the team competition, finishing 0.37 seconds clear of the field in a discipline that will make its Olympic debut in 2026. That result came just a couple of hours after Wyatt had won bronze and Matt...
Matt Weston went within one-hundredth of a second of winning gold and in-form Freya Tarbit bagged bronze as University of Bath-based British Skeleton athletes continued their excellent start to the 2024-25 IBSF World Cup season in Beijing. Weston, having won back-to-back bronze medals on the opening weekend in PyeongChang, led after the first run on the 2022 Winter Olympic Games track but was narrowly overhauled on the second run by Germany’s Christopher Grotheer, who claimed...
University of Bath-based skeleton athletes won six medals, including gold for Amelia Coltman and Freya Tarbit, as Great Britain made a sensational start to the 2024-25 IBSF Skeleton World Cup season in PyeongChang, South Korea. Coltman kicked off the new campaign in style by winning the opening women's race on Saturday to claim her first-ever World Cup medal at the home of Lizzy Yarnold’s Olympic triumph in 2018. Tarbit missed out on a podium place...
