World Champs success: stat attack

The 2025 World Championships were an historic one for our British Bobsleigh and Skeleton teams so we thought we’d take a quick look back at some of the super stats from a fantastic fortnight in the United States.

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2025 equalled the country’s most successful ever World Championships
GB won 4 medals in Lake Placid, matching their tally from two seasons ago
Men’s skeleton gold & silver (Matt Weston & Marcus Wyatt)
Team skeleton silver (Matt Weston & Tabby Stoecker)
4-man bobsleigh bronze (Brad Hall, Arran Gulliver, Taylor Lawrence & Greg Cackett)

The make up of those medals matched 2023, too - 1 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze. In St Moritz in 2023, Matt won gold; Matt and Laura Deas took team silver; Craig Thompson and Brogan Crowley claimed team bronze; and Brad, Arran, Taylor and Greg won 4-man bobsleigh silver.

This year’s tally tops 2023 when you add in the results of the Para Bobsleigh World Championships after Corie Mapp won gold in Moritz last month.

Matt moves to the No1 spot
Matt surpassed Lizzy Yarnold as the country’s most decorated World Championship skeleton athlete
Lizzy won gold in 2015 and bronze in 2012 and 2017
Matt won gold in 2023 and 2025 and silver in 2024
With a hat-trick of silver team medals in 2023, ’24 and ’25 also included, Matt’s tally has now hit six

First ever feats

Matt became Britain’s first ever multiple skeleton World Champion
Kristan Bromley, Shelley Rudman and Lizzy were all previously crowned World Champions but only on one occasion each

Matt is now the only British man to have won multiple World Championship medals
Kristan (gold in 2008); Adam Pengilly (silver 2009) and Marcus (silver in 2025) have won one apiece

GB had two athletes on the same individual World Championship podium for the first time
Lizzy and Laura stood on the same Olympic podium in PyeongChang in 2018 but no GB pair had done so at a World Champs in 43 years of skeleton competition
It was the first time this had happened across either sport as GB has never had two bobsleigh crews on the same podium in close to 100 years of competition, either

Two of a kind

Matt became just the second British slider to win World Championship and Overall World Cup gold in the same season
Kristan was the first in 2008

GB waited 84 years for a 4-man bobsleigh medal but have now won two in three seasons
Silver in 2023 was the first 4-man medal since 1939
An 84-year wait between the country’s fourth and fifth 4-man medals was followed by just a 25-month gap between medals number five and number six

Tabby now has two World Championship medals having won silver this year and last
Although Tabby’s medals come from the team event not the individual competition, she still joins Lizzy and Matt as the only British skeleton sliders to have won more than one World Champs medal

Third time’s a charm

GB won medals in both bobsleigh and skeleton at the same World Championships for just the third time
Success for Matt, Marcus and Tabby was followed by a medal for Brad, Arran, Taylor and Greg
The only two other occasions when this happened were 2009 in Lake Placid (Nicola Minichello and Gillian Cooke gold; Amy Williams silver; Adam Pengilly silver) and the aforementioned success in St Moritz in 2023

The chosen few

Marcus became just GB’s eighth skeleton individual World Championship medalist
The complete list now reads: Alex Coomber 2001; Amy Williams 2009; Shelley Rudman 2013; Lizzy 2012, ’15, ’17; Kristan 2008; Adam 2009; Matt 2023, ’24, ’25 and Marcus 2025
Laura, Tabby, Brogan and Craig have team medals but haven’t made an individual podium

Arran, Taylor and Greg are now among an elite group of only seven GB push athletes to have won multiple World Championship medals in any discipline
David Green, Charles Looker, Byran Black and Robin Dixon are the others

Brad became the fourth British pilot to win multiple World Championship medals
He joined Frederick McEvoy (2-man gold in 1937; silver in ’38; 4-man gold in 1937 and ’38; silver in ’39); Tony Nash (2-man gold in 1965; bronze in ’63 and ’66); and Nicola Minichiello (women’s gold in 2009 and silver in ‘05)