Coltman & Weston take team bronze
Matt Weston followed up his World Cup gold in the men’s skeleton in St Moritz with bronze in the team event with Amelia Coltman.
Weston took top spot in the individual race on Friday lunchtime and was back on the podium a couple of hours later as British Skeleton’s remarkable medal tally grew again in Switzerland.
GB have now won a staggering 16 medals across seven World Cup skeleton race days since November - two more than they won across the whole of their record breaking 2022/23 campaign.
Weston and Coltman, who was 11th in the women’s race this morning but won World Cup gold in PyeongChang in November and is fifth in the women’s World Cup rankings, came down in a combined time of 2 minutes 24.31 seconds.
With the team race featuring a start system more akin to Formula One or the 100m sprint than individual men’s or women’s skeleton events, Weston received a 0.64 second penalty for a false start but he was still the second fastest male slider in the 19-team field despite the major disadvantage.
Coltman was sixth quickest as the pair finished 0.4 seconds behind race winners Jacqueline Pfeifer and Axel Jungk of Germany and 0.27 from silver medalists Mystique Ro and Austin Florian of the United States of America.
Coltman and Weston’s bronze is the second team medal in three races this season after Tabby Stoecker and Marcus Wyatt won gold in Altenberg last month.
Wyatt finished fifth in today’s team race alongside Freya Tarbit. They clocked 2 minutes 24.81 seconds to end the day two spots and half a second behind their team mates.
There is now just more skeleton World Cup competition to come this season, with men’s, women’s and the team race scheduled to feature in Lillehammer, Norway on February 7th and 8th.
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