Summary:
- For the first time in Winter Olympic history, Britain won two gold medals on the same day.
- Matt Weston and Tabitha Stoecker clinched mixed team skeleton gold hours after Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale topped the podium in snowboard cross.
- Weston became the first British athlete to win two gold medals at a single Winter Olympics.
It was a day Team GB will never forget. For the first time in Winter Olympics history, Britain won two gold medals on the same day.
Matt Weston and Tabitha Stoecker delivered the second, claiming mixed team skeleton gold just hours after Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale topped the podium in snowboard cross.
First Brit to Grab Two Gold Medals at a Single Winter Olympics
For Matt Weston, it made an already remarkable week even better. Just two days after winning individual gold, he became the first British athlete to win two gold medals at a single Winter Olympics.
The pressure was very real when it was his turn to race. Stoecker posted a time of 1:00.77, leaving the British team trailing Germany by 0.18 seconds.
As the final team on the track, everything came down to Weston’s run, and the 28-year-old delivered, producing a brilliant 58.59-second run and pushing Britain into first place with a combined time of 1:59.36 to secure his second gold of the Games.
The individual event is amazing, but doing it as a team when we’re normally an individual sport is amazing. To have my team-mate by my side as Olympic champions, two-time for me, which is crazy. I’m looking forward to the celebrations!
Another First: Three Gold Medals at a Single Winter Olympics
The win also marked another milestone. It is the first time Great Britain has ever won three gold medals at a single Winter Olympics.
The mixed team skeleton event, making its Olympic debut, brought plenty of drama. Athletes had to time their starts perfectly as they launched down the track one after the other. React too early, and penalties followed, which proved costly for some teams.
Weston, though, stayed calm when it mattered most.
Luckily, I felt like I knew what I needed to do. It’s all a bit of a whirlwind, I took confidence from the individual event, and in my head I had to be quite boring and just get the job done.
His performance added to an already dominant stretch. After finishing 15th in Beijing four years ago, Weston has transformed himself into the sport’s top athlete, winning multiple world titles and now two Olympic gold medals.