Group GB made historical past by successful two Winter Olympic gold medals on in the future for the primary time as Matt Weston and Tabitha Stoecker gained combined staff skeleton gold.
It got here after Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale gained snowboard cross combined staff gold earlier on Sunday.
Weston produced a surprising race to make extra of his personal historical past in Cortina as he grew to become the primary Briton to win two gold medals at a Winter Olympics having gained particular person gold simply two days in the past.
Stoecker had given Weston a tricky job together with her run of 1:00.77, 0.30 seconds off the tempo of the Germans with the British pair, ranked prime seeds, the final to run.
However Weston, who gained Group GB’s first medal on the Video games, confirmed why he’s the perfect skeleton racer on this planet with a chic 58.59secs run to clinch a second medal.
It is usually the primary time Nice Britain have gained three gold medals at a single Winter Olympics.
“Fortunately I felt like I knew what I wanted to do,” Weston instructed BBC Sport.
“It is all a little bit of a whirlwind, I took confidence from the person occasion and in my head I needed to be fairly boring and simply get the job completed.”
A second British staff, Marcus Wyatt and Freya Tarbit, missed out on a medal by an agonising 0.01secs as the 2 German groups of Christopher Grotheer and Jacqueline Pfeifer and Axel Jungk and Susanne Kreher took silver and bronze, respectively.
