Briton triumphs by nearly a second in Milano Cortina
First British man to win individual winter gold since 1980
And on the seventh day, Great Britain finally won their first medal of the Olympics. At nine o’clock on Friday night Matt Weston, the man his teammates call “Captain 110%”, won the gold in the men’s skeleton after four faultless races across the two days of competition.
The 28-year-old broke the track record at the Cortina Sliding Centre four times in the space of four races, and won in a final combined time of 3min 43.33sec, almost a full second ahead of the runner-up, Germany’s Axel Jungk. Weston is the first British man ever to win the Olympic skeleton title. And he did it all despite starting the year with a four-inch tear in his right quad that meant he had to miss pre-season training.
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