Matt Weston has won gold in the men’s singles skeleton competition, Team GB’s first medal at the Winter Olympics in Italy.
The 28-year-old, a world and European champion, had been the favourite for gold after leading at the halfway stage of the event on Thursday, with track records in the first two heats.
On Friday, the British athlete posted another track record on his third run – recording a 0.39-second advantage at the top of the leaderboard.
He then brought the gold home in his final heat at the Milano Cortina Games.
In March 2025, he took his second world champion crown and last month he clinched his third successive overall World Cup title.
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Weston made his debut in skeleton in 2019, previously competing in taekwondo and securing several European and international honours.
He continued in that discipline until the age of 17, when he retired due to injury.
Team GB have won a medal in the skeleton at each of the Games since 2002.
Lizzy Yarnold secured two golds, at Sochi in 2014 and PyeongChang in 2018, while Dom Parsons was Britain’s first male skeleton medallist since 1948 in South Korea, winning bronze in the men’s event.
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