Tarbit adds to GB skeleton World Cup gold rush

Tarbit is a junior World and European Championship medallist

Freya Tarbit claimed her first top-tier medal with Britain's second World Cup gold of the weekend at the women's skeleton series opener in Pyeongchang.

It follows team-mate Amelia Coltman's victory in Saturday's race one in South Korea in which Tarbit finished fourth, 0.02 seconds off a medal.

Tarbit, 24, was competing in only her 11th World Cup race on Sunday but led after the first run and consolidated her advantage in the second, finishing in one minute 44.68 seconds - 0.96 secs clear of Olympic champion Hannah Neise of Germany.

Experienced Austrian Janine Flock was third, adding to her silver on Saturday, while Briton Tabby Stoecker was fifth and Coltman 19th.

In Sunday's men's race, Marcus Wyatt and Matt Weston, who won the overall title last season, clinched their second silver and bronze medals of the weekend, finishing behind Germany's Christopher Grotheer for the second day in a row.

Coltman had started the medal run in style on Saturday with the 28-year-old capitalising on deteriorating track conditions to claim her first medal at this level.

She had never finished higher than fourth at a World Cup event, but after sitting in 15th following the first run she produced the second-fastest time in the second to win.

"We came here with a focus on performance over results but we have managed to achieve both," said the British team's performance director Natalie Dunman.

"Winning any medal at this level is incredibly difficult so to come away with six from four races when there were more than 30 sliders in each field is really pleasing."