Matt Weston and Tabitha Stoecker win thrilling mixed team skeleton gold at Winter Olympics

Team GB made history by winning two Winter Olympic titles in one day for the first time, with Matt Weston and Tabitha Stoecker clinching mixed team skeleton gold.

It comes after Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale won the snowboard cross mixed team event earlier on Sunday.

Weston produced a stunning race in Cortina to better explain his own history; He became the first Briton to win two gold medals at the Winter Olympics when he won individual gold just two days ago.

Stoecker had given Weston the tough task of running 1:00.77, 0.30 seconds behind the Germans, and the British pair (in the best placing) were in last place.

But Weston, who won Team GB’s first medal of the Games, showed why he is the best skeleton racer in the world by claiming the second medal with a stunning run of 58.59 seconds.

It was also the first time Great Britain won three gold medals at one Winter Olympics.

“Luckily I felt like I knew what I needed to do,” Weston told BBC Sport.

“It’s all been a bit of a whirlwind, I’ve gained confidence from the individual events and in my mind I just had to be pretty dull and get the job done.”

The second British team of Marcus Wyatt and Freya Tarbit missed out on a medal by an agonizing margin of 0.01 seconds, while the two German teams of Christopher Grotheer and Jacqueline Pfeifer and Axel Jungk and Susanne Kreher took silver and bronze respectively.