Matt Weston successfully defended his Overall World Cup crown and GB won their first two-man continental medals since 1968 during another history-making weekend for the University of Bath-based British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association.
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 men’s rankings for Weston, who had also won the title in 2023-24.
Team-mate Marcus Wyatt was runner-up to Weston overall, the first time British sliders have occupied the top two places, after winning bronze at the final World Cup of the season. The race doubled as the European Championship and, with gold going to China’s Qinwei Lin, it meant Wyatt took continental silver, the 2024 champion missing out on back-to-back European men’s titles by just one-hundredth of a second.
The medal success continued in the women’s race on Friday afternoon as Amelia Coltman won World Cup bronze and European Championships silver for Britain following two impressively consistent runs.
Wyatt and Coltman went one better on Saturday when they won gold in the team event. That medal was British Skeleton’s 19th of the 2024-25 World Cup campaign, the most they have ever won during a season.
More history was to follow in the bobsleigh as Brad Hall and Taylor Lawrence won a brilliant bronze in Saturday’s two-man competition. That was Britain’s first European medal in the event for 57 years and also the first time a German crew hadn’t won a World Cup medal in 2025.
Hall and Lawrence were back on the podium 24 hours later, this time with Arran Gulliver and Leon Greenwood as British Bobsleigh secured a fifth successive four-man podium place of the season with another third-placed finish.
With one round of the World Cup to go, again in Lillehammer next weekend, Team Hall remain on track for overall medals as they sit second in the four-man standings and third in the two-man.
The University of Bath is home to the UK’s only outdoor push-start training track and British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association athletes also do their strength and conditioning work at the Team Bath Sports Training Village. Visit teambath.com/skeleton and teambath.com/bobsleigh to find out more.
With thanks to Team Bath
