The four-time Olympian, who led the women’s curling rink to gold as skip at Beijing 2022, will head up a British delegation for the first time after announcing her retirement from competition last summer.

Muirhead said: “I am delighted to have the honour of leading Team GB for Gangwon 2024. For me, taking part in international competition at a junior level was invaluable preparation for my senior career. The athletes who represent Team GB in Gangwon will gain experience of competing on the world stage in a multi-sport environment, as well as the opportunity to learn, develop and interact with athletes from other nations. It is a real privilege to be able to prepare and support them in what for many will be their first taste of an Olympic environment.”

Andy Anson, Chief Executive of the BOA, said: “It is fantastic to have Eve on board as Chef de Mission for Gangwon. She is an outstanding and well-established leader, and her experience competing across four Olympic Games’ will offer a hugely valuable level of insight for our young athletes. I have no doubt that she will serve as an inspiration for those selected to compete for Team GB at the event.”

The fourth edition of the Winter Youth Olympic Games will take place in the Republic of Korea’s Gangwon province from 19 January – 1 February 2024. Almost 2000 athletes, all aged 15 – 18, are expected to compete across the 15 Olympic sports on the programme: alpine skiing, biathlon, bobsleigh, cross-country skiing, curling, figure skating, freestyle skiing, ice hockey, luge, Nordic combined, short track, skeleton, ski jumping, snowboard and speed skating.

Many British Olympians competed at Youth Olympic Games before going on to represent Team GB at a senior Games, including Muirhead’s Beijing 2022 teammates Mili Smith and Ross Whyte, who both competed at Lillehammer 2016; double Olympians Mica McNeill and Jazmin Sawyers, who claimed bobsleigh silver at Innsbruck 2012; and Kirsty Muir, who won big air silver at Lausanne 2020 before becoming the youngest member of Team GB at Beijing 2022. Among those who have competed at summer Youth Olympic Games are Tom Daley, Jade Jones, Duncan Scott, Luke Greenbank and Caroline Dubois.

A key pillar of the Youth Olympic Games is the inclusion of an education programme designed to enhance the wellbeing of young elite athletes both on the field of play and in their everyday lives. The programme in Gangwon will encompass topics such as mental health, injury prevention, safe sport and anti-doping.

With thanks to Team GB

Banská Bystrica 2022 will see around 3,500 athletes and officials represent 48 European nations across 10 Olympic sports. Team GB’s athletes, who will all be aged 13-18 at the event, will compete in five sports: badminton, cycling, gymnastics, judo, and swimming. Athletics, basketball, handball, tennis, and volleyball complete the sporting programme. The full Team GB squad can be found below.

EYOFs play an important role in the development of young British athletes, providing crucial multi-sport event experience and guiding them towards realising their Olympic ambitions. Many athletes who have competed for Team GB at a summer EYOF have gone on to compete at an Olympic Games, including Rebecca Adlington (Paris 2003 EYOF), Dina Asher-Smith (Trabzon 2011), Nile Wilson (Utrecht 2013), Amy Tinkler (Utrecht 2013), Tom Pidcock (Tblisi 2015) and more.

Leading the Team GB delegation as Chef de Mission at Banksá Bystrica 2022 will be Lizzie Simmonds, who competed in the Lignano Sabbiadoro 2005 EYOF before going on to represent Team GB at the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Olympic Games. She is also the current chair of the British Olympic Association’s Athletes’ Commission.

Simmonds said: “Being selected for Team GB for the first time is a real honour and privilege, and I’m sure today marks a very proud moment for the 40 talented athletes that have qualified for Banská Bystrica 2022.

“Youth Olympic Festivals are hugely important events, offering young athletes invaluable international competition and the opportunity to gain first-hand experience in a multi-sport environment. Embracing and learning from an experience like this one can be the first step in a journey towards competing for Team GB at a senior Olympic Games.

“Having experienced an EYOF myself as an athlete, I’m now looking forward to welcoming a new generation of Olympic hopefuls to Team GB, and supporting them to perform at their best on the European stage this summer.”

Ruby Evans (gymnastics) said: “I’m super excited to have been selected to represent my country. Although I’m nervous, I’m very grateful to be given this opportunity and to experience it with my training partner, Evie.

“I recently broke my finger so my preparation has been very different to normal – I just want to compete at my best, to experience staying in a village, and to meet new people from different countries that I could possibly compete against in a couple of years’ time as a senior gymnast.

“I want to keep progressing and continue competing for my country as it is a great honour. One day I would love to represent Wales at the Commonwealth Games and Team GB at the Olympic Games, so being selected for the EYOF has really inspired me to keep working hard in the gym.”

Oscar Bilbao (swimming) said: “I’m very proud to be representing Great Britain at the EYOF, and having just competed at the European Junior Championships in Bucharest, I think I am well prepared to perform my best and hopefully achieve some personal bests!”

Charlotte Jenman (judo) said: “It’s an amazing feeling to be selected for Team GB at the European Youth Olympic Festival – I still can’t believe it’s real in all honesty. Due to crowds and people not being able to spectate at many of the previous events when competing abroad I think the atmosphere in the stadium is going to be outstanding and I’m so excited.

“Going through this selection process and having to fight for my spot at EYOF was a difficult road but I managed to come out on top and fulfil my dream. I’ve had a really good year so far, medalling at four out of six European cup competitions with one of them being a bronze at the European Championships.

“I’m hoping to go out to Slovakia to bring some fire to the Judo and hopefully take home a medal for GB. It’d be a dream come true.”

Banská Bystrica is the 16th edition of the summer EYOF. At the last summer EYOF in Baku, Azerbaijan in 2019, Team GB claimed second place in the medal table with a total of 25 medals, including 11 golds.

Team GB at Banská Bystrica 2022:

Badminton:

Varsha Kumar, 15, from Birmingham

Harper Leigh, 15, from Newport

Cycling:

Cat Ferguson, 16, from North Yorkshire

Sam Fisher, 15, from Glamorgan

Seb Grindley, 16, from Cheshire

Carys Lloyd, 15, from Kent

Finlay Tarling, 15, from Dyfed

Imogen Wolff, 16, from South Yorkshire

Gymnastics:

Oakley Banks, 17, from Kent

Danny Crouch, 16, from Essex

Ruby Evans, 15, from Cardiff

Evie Flage-Donovan, 15, from Newport

Abi Martin, 14, from Devon

Reuben Ward, 17, from Lancashire

Judo:

William Andrews, 16, from Sheffield

Luke Austen, 18, from Berkshire

Luke Davies, 17, from London

Holly Devall, 17, from Glamorgan

Lewis Fryer, 17, from Hertfordshire

Daniel Givan, 18, from East Lothian

Anya Hassan, 17, from Tyne and Wear

Charlotte Jenman, 17, from Kent

Summer Shaw, 18, from Surrey

Niamh Southgate, 17, from Norwich

Swimming:

Oscar Bilbao, 16, from Hereford

Maisie Brown, 14, from Hampshire

Skye Carter, 14, from Essex

Conor Cherrington, 16, from Dorset

Kianna Coertze, 14 from Midlothian

Mabli Collyer, 13, from Carmarthenshire

Phoebe Cooper, 14, from South Yorkshire

Evan Davidson, 15, from Perth and Kinross

Oscar Dodds, 16, from Jersey

Henry Gray, 16, from London

Ella Homan, 14, from the West Midlands

Jakey Hutchinson, 15, from Derby

Isla Jones, 15, from South Yorkshire

Blythe Kinsman, 15, from Devon

Stefan Krawiec, 16, from East Lothian

Luke McGee, 16, from Tyne and Wear

With thanks to Team GB

Kirsty Muir secured Team GB’s only individual medal of the Games, winning silver in the freestyle skiing big air competition at the Leysin Park and Pipe Centre.

The Scot, who qualified for the final in third place, was right in medal contention from the start, registering a score of 82.50 to place her in first position after run one. Scores of 78.50 and 87.50 in runs two and three further solidified her place on the podium, with her final score of 171.00 from her best two runs ensuring that she’d clinched second place. China’s Ailing Eileen Gu claimed the gold, with her combined score totalling 171.25 – just 1.25 in front of Muir.

Muir, who will also have the honour of being Team GB’s flagbearer at tonight’s closing ceremony in the Lausanne Medal Plaza, was pleased with the outcome: “I’m really happy with how I skied, I aimed for my best tricks and managed to put them down well – I’m just so delighted.

“I’m just so happy (with the silver), Eileen had some amazing runs and she’s a really great skier and was amazing today. I really hope this will inspire some of the younger athletes back at home. I just try to ski how I ski with the hope that it will inspire some people.”

Elsewhere, Olivia Weedon capped off an unforgettable week at the Youth Olympic Games with a bronze medal in short track speed skating mixed country relay, lining up with individual double gold medallist Whi Min Seo (KOR) as well as Ethan De Rose (NZL) and Thomas Nadalini (ITA) to make up Team A.

In an high octane final race, there was almost nothing between the teams until a fall from Team G with 12 laps to go opened up the pack. It was Team B who sealed the gold medal with Team G just behind them in silver after pulling away from Weedon’s Team A in the final moments of the race.

Speaking after her bronze medal win, Weedon was clearly elated: “I’m on cloud nine right now – it’s been amazing this whole experience. Even to be in the relay team, I was like yes, that’s my achievement.”

With two personal bests and a bronze medal to her name, Weedon had a Youth Olympic Games few could beat: “I didn’t expect to come in here and do this at all. I thought that I’d come in, I’d skate well, but I didn’t imagine any of this would happen.

“I’ve never skated with half of these people before, never been in a relay with half of these people before, so just getting to skate with these people and experience how they skate was amazing. You just don’t get a feeling like it.”

Freestyle skier, Jasper Klein, was the only other Team GB athlete in action on day 13, securing a top 10 finish in the men’s big air competition. Klein’s combined score of 133.75 from his best two runs saw him claim ninth position – Matej Svancer of Czech Republic was the eventual winner, triumphing with a score of 186.00.

Team GB finished the Lausanne Games with seven medals in total, with Muir’s silver and Weedon’s bronze, adding to the four ice hockey medals (Amy Robery, Mack Stewart, Mirren Foy and Evan Nauth) and one speed skating medal (Theo Collins) won in week one.

Results:
Freestyle skiing – women’s big air:
Kirsty Muir – 2nd

Freestyle skiing – men’s big air:
Jasper Klein – 9th

Short track speed skating – mixed country relay:
Olivia Weedon (Team A) – 3rd

Courtesy of Team GB

The Aberdeen based athlete has enjoyed an excellent week, securing a fourth place in slopestyle before finishing second today (170.00), just 1.25 points off gold medal winning Ailing Eileen Gu.

Muir follows fellow Scot, Robyn Mitchell, who carried the Union flag at the Opening Ceremony and will bring the third winter Youth Olympic Games to a close in central Lausanne this evening.

Speaking after her silver medal success, Muir said: “I’m so excited. It’s going to be such a cool experience and I’m honoured to be asked. I’m really happy with how I’ve skied and this is the perfect end to the week and I’m just so proud to represent Team GB.”

Team GB’s Chef de Mission for Lausanne 2020, Georgie Harland, was in no doubt about the choice: “Kirsty is thoroughly deserving of being Team GB’s flagbearer at tonight’s closing ceremony. Not only have her performances during these Games been first rate, but she has also really lived the Team GB values, getting involved with and enjoying the activities provided by the Lausanne 2020 organising committee and also making a positive impact in a vibrant Team GB HQ.

“Today’s silver medal is a fitting way to bring the Games to a close but myself and my team are also keen to recognise the great efforts across the board from these young, promising British athletes who have represented their country with great pride and effort throughout.”

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The Aberdeen athlete qualified comfortably with a score of 81.33 behind two adversaries from the slopestyle event in the shape of Swedish skier Jennie-Lee Burmansson (second with 85.66) and Ailing Eileen Gu (first with 91.33) from China. The big air event concludes today at Leysin Park and Pipe Centre.

It was double disappointment at the Champery Curling Arena as both Robyn Mitchell and Jamie Rankin exited at the round of 12 stage. Rankin and Polish playing partner, Klaudia Szmidt, were first up this morning but weren’t able to replicate earlier form as they came undone against the Japanese/French pairing with a score of 9-2 to exit the competition. In the afternoon session, Mitchell and Frantisek Jiral fought hard but couldn’t overcome the Canadian/Hungarian duo losing 7-4.

Scott Johns was back in action in the mixed country ski-snowboard cross event at Villars Winter Park. This particular competition saw a male and female ski cross athlete, and a male and female snowboard cross athlete compete in four separate races, with a combined time deciding which teams progressed through to the next round.

Although the teenager, who was placed in a team alongside Marie-Pier Brunet (CAN), Aina Gomariz (ESP) and Alvaro Romero (ESP), won his individual ski cross heat, it wasn’t enough to progress through to the quarter-finals, with his mixed team finishing third overall.

In the final day of the cross country skiing, Molly Jefferies took on the 5km classic over a tough, undulating course at Vallée de Joux. Finishing in 59th place with a time of 18:00.01, Jefferies was 3:44.04 off the pace of winner Maerta Rosenberg (SWE).

James Slimon was next up in the 10km classic in his final performance at Lausanne 2020, finishing in a time of 32:35.07 to finish 64th with Russia’s Iliya Tregubov taking gold.

With just one day left of competition, Team GB will be in action across two sports with Kirsty Muir and Jasper Klein in action in the big air event, while Olivia Weedon will race in the mixed country team relay at the Lausanne Skating Arena.

Results:

Cross country skiing – women’s 5km classic:

• Molly Jefferies – 59^th

Cross country skiing – men’s 10km classic:

• James Slimon – 64^th

Curling – mixed doubles:

• Robyn Mitchell/Frantisek Jiral (CZE) lost 7-4 versus Laura Nagy (HUN)/ Nathan Young (CAN)
• Jamie Rankin/Klaudia Szmitd (POL) lost 9-2 versus Mina Kobayashi (JPN)/Leo Tuaz (FRA)

Freestyle skiing – women’s big air qualification:

• Kirsty Muir – 3rd – qualified for final

Freestyle skiing – mixed country ski/snowboard cross;

• Scott Johns (mixed team six) – 3rd in preliminary heat one, DNQ for quarter-finals

Courtesy of Team GB

Longden went first in the women’s monobob competition on Sunday and got progressively quicker over her two runs, reaching speeds of 125.4km/h to finish on a combined time of 2:30.20 – +3.36 seconds off the eventual winner Georgeta Popescu of Romania.

Charlotte Longden and Will Scammell (Photo: Team GB/Sam Mellish)

“I was happy with how my runs went,” said Longden, an A-level student at Marlborough College in Wiltshire who has only been training in bobsleigh at the University of Bath for a year.

“I could notice improvements on my second run from my first run so that’s all I can really ask for. For me this is just the start, I loved it, I loved this experience and just want to do more.”

The following day saw fellow 17-year-old Scammell, from Devizes, also place 12th overall in a combined time of 2:28.26. German Alexander Czudaj and Robert Andrei Nica from Romania shared the gold in a time of 2:24.80.

“I’ve done such a good run and I feel so proud of how I’ve done,” he said. “To finish close to the top 10 in the world is unbelievable. I think I’ve proved that even though I can’t train as much [as some of the other competitors] I’m up there with the best.”

Both Longden and Scammell were first introduced to the sport as track and field athletes with Team Bath Athletics Club who, like the British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association, are based at the University’s Sports Training Village.

Visit www.teambath.com/bobsleigh to find out more about the bobsleigh programme at the University of Bath.

Courtesy of the Team Bath Press Office at Matchtight

Mitchell and her Czech playing partner, Frantisek Jiral, beat the Korean/Polish pairing 6-5 after an excellent power play in the seventh end secured them a 6-4 lead which their opponents could only reply with one point in the eighth end.

Jamie Rankin and Klaudia Szmidt (POL) made it into the round of 12 with a commanding performance, which saw them defeat the mixed team of Turkey and Sweden 11-6. It was not to be for Ross Craik who lost 12-6 with playing partner Natalie Wiksten (DEN), against their Czech and Swedish opponents.

Hot on the heels of his teammate Charlotte Longden’s top 12 finish yesterday, William Scammell also secured a 12th place finish in St. Moritz in a combined time of 2:28.26, having sat in 11th place after his first run. German Alexander Czudaj and Robert Andrei Nica from Romania shared the gold in a time of 2:24.80.

Speaking at the end of the competition Scammell had an overriding feeling of relief, “I’ve done such a good run, I feel so proud of how I’ve done. To finish close to the top 10 in the world is unbelievable, I think I’ve proved that even though I can’t train as much [as some of the other competitors] I’m up there with one of the best.”

After yesterday’s postponement the men’s slopestyle competition got underway at Leysin Park and Pipe Centre. Team GB’s Jasper Klein sat in 12th position after his first run with a score of 61.00 and followed this up with 61.66 to slightly improve on his second run.

This would prove to not be enough to progress with Japan’s Ruka Ito’s score of 63.33 seeing him finish 12th and secure the last place for the finals with Klein in 15th. American Kiernan Fagan won with a score of 90.66, while Klein will turn his attention to the big air competition on Wednesday.

Olivia Weedon and Matt Gardner were both back in action in the short track speed skating, with the British pair tackling the shorter distance of 500m. Weedon sailed through to the quarter-finals, finishing second in her first round heat in a personal best time of 47.790 – her second PB of the week after setting a time of 1:37.974 in the 1,000m.

Despite not going beyond the quarter-final stage, Weedon was delighted with how she’s raced this week. “There were a lot of positives to take this week, I’ve come out with two PBs. Coming into the 500m, I was pretty confident that I would qualify for the quarter-finals, if I skated well and got my tactics right. I managed to do that in the first heat and I got a PB in the process.”

Earlier in the day, Matt Gardner was knocked out in the first round of the men’s 500m, after finishing fourth in his heat.

Results:

Bobsleigh – men’s monobob:

Will Scammell – 12th

Curling – mixed doubles:

Robyn Munro/Frantisek Jiral (CZE) won 6-5 versus Robert Kaminski (POL)/Youbeen Park (KOR)
Jamie Rankin/Klaudia Szmitd (POL) won 11-6 versus Olle Moberg (SWE)/Berfin Sengul (TUR)
Ross Craik/Natalie Wiksten (DEN) lost 6-12 versus Axel Landelius (SWE)/Kristyna Farkova (CZE)

Freestyle skiing – men’s slopestyle:

Jasper Klein – 15th – DNQ for final

Short track speed skating- 500m:

Matthew Gardner: First round – fourth in heat six, DNQ for quarter-finals
Olivia Weedon: First round – second in heat seven. Quarter-finals – third in heat four, DNQ for semi-finals

Courtesy of Team GB

Collins wasn’t Team GB’s only medallist from the week, as Amy Robery, Mack Stewart, Mirren Foy and Evan Nauth all clinched medals in the mixed country 3-on-3 ice hockey event (two silver, two bronze) the previous day.

There were positive results elsewhere throughout the week, as Shawna Pendry followed up her impressive display in the women’s 10km (39th) with a personal best of 12th in the 6km sprint, while Collins also registered his own personal best time of 40:59 in the men’s 500m.

Team GB’s curlers just missed out on a place in the knockout stages of the mixed team competition, going out on head to head to Norway, despite having the same record as their Norwegian counterparts. The British quartet will be back in action on Saturday, as they take part in the mixed country pairs event at the Champéry Curling Arena.

It was a difficult week for Team GB’s alpine skiers at Les Diablerets, with Daisi Daniels posting the best result of the week, after finishing 18th in the women’s Super G.

Today saw the departure of alpine skiing, biathlon and ice hockey athletes from the Athlete Village, and welcomed in new faces from cross-country skiing (Molly Jefferies, James Slimon), freestyle skiing (Scott Johns, Jasper Klein, Kirsty Muir), Nordic combined (Mani Cooper), short track speed skating (Matthew Gardner, Olivia Weedon) and ski jumping (Sam Bolton). The competition at Lausanne 2020 resumes on Saturday, following tomorrow’s official training day.

Bobsleigh will get underway at the Olympia Bob Run, St. Moritz on Sunday, with British duo Charlotte Longden and William Scammell in action.

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Speed skater Theo Collins became the first Team GB medal winner at Lausanne 2020 as he collected silver in the mixed country team sprint.

Competing with skaters from Finland, Japan and Poland, Collins’s team finished in a time of 2:05.92, and following an appeal moved into silver position, 1.82 behind the gold medal winning team from Austria, Finland, Japan and Russia.

Speaking straight after his medal success, Collins said: “It’s an incredible feeling. I did not expect to get a medal coming into this race but we had a really good chemistry despite having never met each other.

“There was a pretty strong head wind out there and my legs started to hurt but I wanted to do the team justice and make them proud. When my coach told me our medal had been upgraded to silver I was unbelievably happy.

No sooner had the first medal of the Games arrived, another two came in quick succession in the Ice Hockey 3-on-3 as Evan Nauth (Team Brown 6-5 Team Black) and Mirren Foy (Team Blue 6-4 Team Brown) both won their bronze medal matches, Team Brown winning with under 10 seconds left on the clock.

First off the ice, Mirren Foy couldn’t hide her delight at winning bronze: “It’s amazing, I was crying with happiness when the game finished. The game ended up being too close for comfort but we managed to hold on. I’ve loved getting to know and playing with these players and I’ll miss them a lot – it’s been a great experience.”

After so many dominant displays during the tournament, Nauth was relieved to have secured the bronze in a last gasp manner: “The adrenalin is absolutely pumping through me. It was a tied game and we were all expecting a shoot out. We were even picking who was going to go and then Matyas [Sapovaliv, Czech Republic] scored with an incredible finish and made my heart come out of my chest. It brought us up after yesterday and the perfect way to end an amazing week.”

After the excitement of the bronze medal matches, Team GB were back in action soon after as they had a presence in both the men’s and women’s gold medal matches with Mack Stewart (Team Red) and Amy Robery (Team Black) in action.

Despite valiant performances from both players it was easy victories for their opponents, meaning both had to settle for silver, but a great outcome all the same.

Robery was very upbeat despite the defeat: “I’m actually really happy. We did lose but we gave it a really good go and we came so far, I’m just happy to get an Olympic medal.”

Stewart was slightly more downcast but was philosophical about the outcome: “We started the game strong but we dropped behind and our heads dropped a little bit but we did try to keep fighting. It does feel great to win an Olympic medal and to share it with some great team mates.”

It was the last day of alpine skiing at Les Diablerets, with Daisi Daniels and Robert Holmes in action in the parallel mixed team event. The British pair went down 4-0 in the round of 16, against the Austrian pair of Philip Hoffmann and Amanda Salzgeber, who eventually ended up winning the bronze medal.

Only one Team GB athlete is in action on day seven of Lausanne 2020 as Theo Collins takes part in the men’s mass start competition which will bring to a close his competition and also that of Team GB’s wave one athletes.

One of the key Lausanne 2020 targets was to grow the total number of athletes from Lillehammer 2016 and to achieve this they introduced a two wave concept with athletes either competing in week one or week two. Team GB’s week two athletes start arriving across today and tomorrow, with competition starting again on Saturday 18th.

Alpine Skiing – Parallel Mixed Team Event:
Daisi Daniels and Rob Holmes – 14th

Ice Hockey – Women’s Mixed NOC 3-on-3 bronze medal match:
Mirren Foy (blue) – won 6-4 versus (brown)
Evan Nauth (brown) – won 6-5 versus (black)

Ice Hockey – Men’s Mixed NOC 3-on-3 gold medal match:
Mack Stewart (red) – lost 10-4 versus (green)
Amy Robery (black) – lost 6-1 versus (yellow)

Speed Skating – Mixed country team sprint

Photo above shows: Team GB’s ice hockey medallists come together after the medal ceremony. L-R: Mirren Foy, Mack Stewart, Evan Nauth and Amy Robery

Courtesy of Team GB

Team GB came into their final round robin fixture with their destiny out of their hands after two earlier defeats against Turkey and Norway had hampered their progress. The early exchanges of the match saw three points exchanged in the first and second end.

Another three points for Team GB in the third end put them in a commanding position but the Kiwis chipped away at the lead in the fourth and fifth end to tie things up and then take the lead in the sixth.

Not deterred Team GB evened things up again in the seventh end before some ice cool play by skip Ross Craik allowed Team GB to score two precious points to secure the win though Norway secured the second qualification spot behind New Zealand as they saw off France on the adjacent rink to end Team GB’s Youth Olympic hopes.

Biathlete Shawna Pendry was back in action, this time in the women’s 6km sprint at Les Tuffes Nordic Centre. Pendry, who had previously finished with a personal best of 39th in the 10km event, went even better in the 6km, finishing an impressive 12th place in a field of 94 – another personal best.

Team GB are guaranteed two medals in the mixed country 3-on-3 ice hockey event, as Mack Stewart and Amy Robery both secured their respective pathways through to tomorrow’s gold medal matches.

Stewart’s Team Red are finding form at the right time, making it four straight wins in the competition, following an 11-7 victory over teammate Evan Nauth’s Team Brown. They will meet Team Green in tomorrow’s final – a team they narrowly lost 8-9 to in the preliminary round.

Following today’s triumph, Stewart said “It’s a pretty big deal getting to the final because we’re now guaranteed a medal – we’ve got one more game where we’re hoping for gold. We started off slowly today, but we’ve now beaten a big team (brown) twice in two days which helps us mentally.

“We’re on a four game win streak right now, so tomorrow we just need to play as we have been playing because it seems to be working.”

Amy Robery’s Team Black launched a stunning comeback to win 11-7 over Team Brown in the women’s semi-finals, despite finding themselves 5-3 down after the first period. They go into tomorrow’s gold medal match against Team Yellow with a record of seven wins out of eight, and Robery is delighted with the team’s progress.

“It’s so surreal – as a team we can’t believe we’ve actually made it to the final. We are all so happy for each other and I’m so proud of my teammates – we’re going to go into the final and try and win it.

“It was very intense – we were level with the other team throughout. We kept going, we kept working and then we scored a few goals in the second period – finding momentum at the right time. We switched tactics to defence towards the end and managed to hold on to the victory.

“Our team has come so far – the fact we’re going to be going home with a medal is amazing. Although we’re guaranteed a medal, we’ve come this far and we want to go all the way and get that gold.”

Evan Nauth and Mirren Foy will also be in action, playing in the men’s and women’s bronze medal match – starting 11:00 GMT.

At Les Diablerets, Sophie Foster secured a decent 20th place finish in the women’s slalom, adding to her 33rd place finish in the Super G last Friday. The 16-year-old clocked 1:37:05 over her two runs, moving up 21 places from her starting bib number of 41.

Daisi Daniels registered another DNF, while Jack Cunningham and Robert Holmes failed to place in the men’s event with a DNF and DSQ respectively.

Alpine Skiing – Women’s Giant Slalom:
Daisi Daniels – DNF
Sophie Foster – 20th
Alpine Skiing – Men’s Slalom:
Jack Cunningham – DNF
Robert Holmes – DSQ
Biathlon – Women’s 6km Sprint:
Shawna Pendry – 12th
Curling – Mixed Team:
Great Britain 9-7 New Zealand
Ice Hockey – Women’s Mixed NOC 3-on-3 semi-finals:
Mirren Foy (blue) – lost 5-7 versus (yellow)
Amy Robery (black) – won 11-7 versus (brown)
Ice Hockey – Men’s Mixed NOC 3-on-3:
Evan Nauth (brown) – lost 7-9 versus (red)
Mack Stewart (red) – won 9-7 versus (brown)

Courtesy of Team GB