University of Bath Director of Sport Stephen Baddeley has hailed the “phenomenal” achievements of British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association (BBSA) athletes who represented Team GB at the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games.
Matt Weston became Britain’s most decorated male Winter Olympian when he won two skeleton golds in three days, following up his emphatic victory in the men’s race with a historic triumph alongside Tabby Stoecker in the first-ever Olympic mixed team event.
Freya Tarbit and Marcus Wyatt were fourth in that race and all five skeleton athletes, including Amelia Coltman, recorded top-10 finishes in their individual races.
More history was made in the bobsleigh competitions where Adele Nicoll became the first British woman to contest the Olympic monobob. She also produced strong performances in the two-woman event alongside Ashleigh Nelson, who became only the second woman to represent Team GB at both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games.
Brad Hall, Britain’s most decorated bobsleigh pilot, recorded a second-successive top-seven finish in the Olympic four-man competition alongside Taylor Lawrence, Greg Cackett and debutant Leon Greenwood.
The BBSA athletes, coaches and support staff are based at the University of Bath, a UK Sport-accredited Elite Training Centre and home to the UK’s only bobsleigh and skeleton push-start track.
Stephen Baddeley said: “We are incredibly proud of our long-standing partnership with the BBSA and it has been wonderful to see them enjoy such outstanding success, not just over the past fortnight but throughout the past Olympiad and indeed the 25 years since the push-start track first opened.
“Nine medals, five of them gold, have been won since 2002 by skeleton athletes who train in Bath, a quite phenomenal record of success and an inspiration to everyone within our sports environment.
“We are privileged to see at first hand the relentless commitment and dedication from the bobsleigh and skeleton athletes, and they should be proud of their achievements in Cortina. Matt, of course, was phenomenal, as he has been all season, and that second gold with Tabby was just a wonderful moment. Congratulations all.”
Weston and Stoecker are respectively the 13th and 14th athletes to be crowned as Olympic Champions while training at the University of Bath, joining fellow skeleton athletes Amy Williams and Lizzy Yarnold; modern pentathletes Stephanie Cook, Joe Choong and Kate French; sprinter Jason Gardener; and swimmers Tom Dean, Freya Anderson, Kieran Bird, James Guy, Calum Jarvis and Matt Richards.
With thanks to Team Bath
