Youth Winter Olympic Games: Team GB stars get best-ever results

Ice skaters Ashlie and Atl made history as they got onto the Youth Olympic Games podium.

Team GB have had their best ever result at a Youth Winter Olympic Games after winning six medals - four of them gold!

The fourth edition of the Games, which took place in Gangwon in South Korea, was open to athletes aged 15, 16, 17 or 18 years old on 31 December in the year of the Games.

Great Britain sent 36 young people to 2024 Winter Games to compete in 12 winter sports.

The event came to to a spell-binding conclusion this week, so here are some of the highlights.

Skiing superstar

Speed demon Zak Carrick-Smith hit the slopes and has written his name in British Olympic history.

The big winner of the Games was undoubtedly alpine skier Zak Carrick-Smith, who might have to pay for extra luggage allowance for all the medals he is taking home.

The 16-year-old became the third Brit to win gold at a Winter Youth Olympic Games and the first-ever to win an alpine skiing medal for Team GB at any Olympic event.

His medals came in the alpine combined event (gold), slalom (gold) and giant slalom (silver).

Zak is no stranger to Olympic life, as his mum is four-time Olympian Emma Carrick-Anderson who represented Team GB in 1992, 1994, 1998 and 2002.

"It's absolutely unbelievable" said Zak.

"I was overwhelmed knowing I was on the podium and it still hasn't quite sunk in to be the first British person to win in alpine skiing in any Olympics, I'm just over the moon."

Ice Stars

Ashlie Slatter and Atl Ongay -Perez won GB's first ever figure skating medals at the Youth Olympics

Fans of Dancing on Ice and the CBBC show Ice Stars will have enjoyed watching Ashlie Slatter, 14, and Atl Ongay-Perez, 16, making history.

They proved they are a pair on the rise by taking bronze in the ice dance competition and becoming Britain's first ever medallists in figure skating at a Youth Olympic Games

The team of two were also given the honour of being Team GB's flagbearers for the Closing Ceremony.

Ice cool under pressure

On a slightly different ice rink, Callie Soutar and Ethan Brewster earned mixed doubles curling gold on the final day of competition with a narrow 7-6 victory over Denmark.

Curling is often described as "chess on ice" as it is a game of strategy, skill and brain power. It looks like a lot of fun too!

Sliding down an icy runway, "throwing" stones? Yes please!

Team GB had a "clean sweep" in the curling tournaments... get it...?

And that wasn't the only curling medal Team GB snatched - they claimed the top prize in the mixed team event as well.

The team of Logan Carson, Tia Laurie, Holly Burke and Archie Hyslop became Team GB's first-ever Youth Olympic mixed team curling champions, also beating Denmark in the final.

Logan, Tia, Archie and Holly show off their Youth Olympic medals.