British Skeleton slider Matt Weston has completed a remarkable hat-trick of victories in St Moritz, adding the European title to his World crown and making it three gold medals in three days – while team-mate Tabby Stoecker took European silver in the women’s event.
Matt Weston after his run | Inset: Tabby Stoecker | Photos © Viesturs Lacis IBSF
The latest IBSF World Cup in Switzerland, which also doubled as the European Championships and was the penultimate race before the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games, proved a showcase for the University of Bath–based athlete.
Weston followed up his emphatic World Cup win in a rearranged men’s race on the same track with another dominant display, clocking a combined time of 2:16.58. The result left him almost a full second ahead of his rivals, earned him a fifth World Cup gold from six races this season and secured a second European title of his career.
He now heads into next month’s Olympics as both World and European Champion.
There was more British success in St Moritz as Jacob Salisbury and Freya Tarbit claimed European bronze in the mixed team race, edging fellow Brits Marcus Wyatt and Amelia Coltman by just one-hundredth of a second.
Wyatt, last year’s European Champion, finished ninth overall in the men’s race and sixth in the European standings, while Salisbury produced his best World Cup result of the season in 13th, ranking ninth among European sliders.
In the women’s competition, Stoecker produced two solid runs to finish fourth overall in 1:10.92 and second among Europeans, behind race winner Kim Meylemans of Belgium.
Coltman placed 10th and Tarbit 12th, putting them sixth and seventh respectively in the continental rankings.
The day concluded with the mixed team race, where both British pairings came home fourth and fifth in the overall World Cup classification, each moving up a position in the European standings.
