British trio Matt Weston, Marcus Wyatt and Amelia Coltman secure podium finishes at World Cup skeleton events in Sigulda
Updated 19/12/2025 at 20:31 GMT
British duo Matt Weston and Marcus Wyatt secured a stunning podium one-two at the skeleton World Cup event in Sigulda. Weston stormed to victory to secure his third World Cup gold medal in three races this season. Wyatt, on the other hand, finished on the podium in a men's race for the first time this term. Weston is currently 107 points clear at the top of the men's overall standings.
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Great Britain secured a World Cup podium one-two in the men’s skeleton in Sigulda on Friday morning, with Matt Weston bringing home the gold medal and Marcus Wyatt winning the silver.
There was further success for Britain as Amelia Coltman came third in the afternoon competition, the best result of the season so far for her.
Weston has now secured three victories from three World Cup events after coming out on top in the penultimate race before Christmas.
He finished ahead of Austria’s Samuel Maier in the first World Cup event of the 2025/26 season in Cortina d’Ampezzo.
He followed that up by storming to victory in Lillehammer ahead of Germany’s Axel Jungk in second and South Korea’s Jung Seung-gi in third.
The silver medal was Wyatt’s first individual medal of the campaign.
However, the 34-year-old from Honiton has won the two mixed team races so far this season alongside his compatriot Tabby Stoecker.
Weston and Wyatt made history last season when they became the first Brits to win gold and silver at the same global championship race in Sigulda.
Those performances helped Weston finish first and Wyatt finish second in the overall standings of last season’s Skeleton World Cup.
Weston’s gold medal means he is now top of the overall standings for this season’s Skeleton World Cup.
He is 107 points clear of China’s Yin Zheng, with Maier following up in third place.
Weston secured first place with a time of 1:40.35, while Wyatt took second after finishing in 1:41.17.
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'Great finish here' - Britain's Weston wins World Cup gold by the finest of margins in Lillehammer
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That was enough to see him beat Germany’s Felix Keisinger by the narrowest of margins.
The 27-year-old was three hundredths of a second behind his British rival.
The second-place finish leaves Wyatt in sixth place in the overall World Cup standings with 506 points, 169 points behind his compatriot.
Wyatt came in 12th place in Cortina d’Ampezzo before battling to a seventh-place finish in Lillehammer.
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Innsbruck was set to host a race on November 28, but it was cancelled due to track issues.
As a result, there will be a second round of races in Sigulda on Saturday, with Weston and Wyatt both set to be involved.
Coltman finished 10th in the first of the week’s races yesterday, and then produced a time of 1:44.3s to leap back into a podium place, up from her initial fifth place.
She finished three hundredths of a second clear of Janine Flock of Austria, who took fourth, and was just six hundredths of a second behind second-placed Anna Fernstaedt. Kim Meylemans won the race.
The Skeleton World Cup will then pause until January 2, when the action will get back underway in Winterberg.
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Britain's Stoecker misses out on World Cup gold as Flock storms to victory in Lillehammer
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The World Cup will then move to St. Moritz between January 10 and 11, with Altenberg scheduled to host a race on January 16.
Great Britain are currently top of the mixed team World Cup overall standings.
Stoecker is third in the women’s World Cup overall standings with 604 points after three races.
She came second in Sigulda, having also finished second in her previous World Cup race in Lillehammer.
She is 13 points behind Flock in second place as things stand and 21 points behind Meylemans in the women’s World Cup overall standings.
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