Ice-cool Matt Weston shatters track records and ends Team GB’s medal drought with skeleton gold
Matt Weston wins first Winter Olympics gold medal for Team GB
- Matt Weston secured Great Britain's first medal at the Winter Olympics, winning gold in the men's skeleton event on Friday 13th.
- The reigning world champion and World Cup winner delivered a dominant performance, breaking the Cortina d'Ampezzo track record four times.
- Weston's historic victory makes him the first British man to win an Olympic gold medal in skeleton.
- He finished with an impressive winning time of 3:43.33, significantly ahead of Germany's Axel Jungk, who took silver, and Christopher Grotheer, who claimed bronze.
- The win lifted Team GB's morale after a series of near misses and fourth-place finishes earlier in the Games.
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