Golden end to World Cup campaign
Great Britain ended the World Cup skeleton season in style as Amelia Coltman and Marcus Wyatt won team gold in Lillehammer on Saturday afternoon.
Wyatt and Coltman both won European Championship silver in the individual events on Friday and they went one better 24 hours later as they brought the curtain down on an outstanding campaign for the British team.
The GB pair clocked a combined time of 1 minute 50.72 seconds to pip Austria’s individual gold medalists Janine Flock and Samuel Maier to top spot by two hundredths of a second.
It marks the second team gold of the four-race season for GB in an event that will make its Olympic debut in Milan Cortina in a year’s time after Wyatt and Tabby Stoecker triumphed in Altenberg in December.
It means the skeleton squad end the World Cup campaign with a record 19 medals across eight individual races and four team events, with seven of those gold. They also celebrated a remarkable one-two in the men’s Overall World Cup standings as Matt Weston and Marcus Wyatt won gold and silver.
Stoecker and Laurence Bostock finished 10th of the 20 teams today, with America’s Mystique Ro and Austin Florian taking bronze.
It was the second success of the afternoon at the Norwegian track for the British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association after Brad Hall and Taylor Lawrence took World Cup and European Championship bronze in the 2-man bobsleigh.
The final instalment of the skeleton season takes place at the World Championships in Lake Placid on March 6th, 7th and 9th but there is more World Cup bobsleigh action in Lillehammer tomorrow and again next weekend.
