Winter Olympics: Team GB's results from Beijing 2022
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Great Britain have ended the Beijing Winter Olympics with two medals - a gold and a silver in women's and men's curling.
The medal haul was short of the five won at the previous two Games but there were a number of near misses as well, with three top-six finishes.
Check out the information below to see how each member of Team GB performed in China.
Alpine skiing
Britain are still searching for a first alpine skiing medal, with slalom specialist Alain Baxter's bronze at Salt Lake City in 2002 rescinded after he failed a drugs test. Dave Ryding finished 13th in the slalom in Beijing.
2022 squad | Event | 2022 Winter Olympics result |
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Billy Major | Slalom | DNF |
Dave Ryding | Slalom | 13th |
Charlie Guest | Slalom | 21st |
Alex Tilley | Giant slalom | 22nd |
Bobsleigh
Britain have won five bobsleigh medals - four bronzes in four-man, and a gold for the 1964 two-man crew of Robin Dixon and Tony Nash. The 2014 bronze medal was awarded to Team GB in 2019 after two Russian crews were disqualified for doping. In Beijing the four-man just missed out on the podium, finishing sixth.
2022 squad | Event | 2022 Winter Olympics result |
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Brad Hall | Men's two and four-man | 6th (four-man) 11th (2-man) |
Nick Gleeson | Men's two and four-man | 11th (2-man) |
Greg Cackett | Men's four-man | 6th (four-man) |
Taylor Lawrence | Men's four-man | 6th (four-man) |
Ben Simons | Men's (reserve) | did not compete |
Mica McNeill | Women's | 17th |
Montell Douglas | Women's | 17th |
Adele Nicoll | Women's (reserve) | did not compete |
Cross country skiing
Andrew Musgrave finished seventh in the skiathlon at the 2018 Winter Olympics - Britain's best result in the sport - but he could not improve on it in Beijing.
2022 squad | Event | 2022 Winter Olympics result |
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James Clugnet | Cross country | 10th (team sprint) |
Andrew Musgrave | Cross country | 12th (50km mass start) |
Andrew Young | Cross country | 10th (team sprint) |
Curling
Great Britain continued their medal success in curling with gold and silver in Beijing. Eve Muirhead clinched gold on the final day, adding to Bruce Mouat's silver.
2022 squad | Event | 2022 Winter Olympics result |
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Bruce Mouat | Men's and mixed doubles | Silver (men's), 4th mixed |
Grant Hardie | Men's | Silver (men's) |
Bobby Lammie | Men's | Silver (men's) |
Hammy McMillan | Men's | Silver (men's) |
Ross Whyte | Men's (alternate) | Silver (men's) |
Eve Muirhead | Women's | Gold (women's) |
Vicky Wright | Women's | Gold (women's) |
Jen Dodds | Women's and mixed doubles | Gold (women's), 4th mixed |
Hailey Duff | Women's | Gold (women's) |
Mili Smith | Women's (alternate) | Gold (women's) |
Figure skating
Britain's most successful winter sport with 15 medals - including the seven won when ice skating was featured in the summer Olympics in the early part of the 20th century. From 1976 to 1984, Britain won gold medals in three successive Games with John Curry, Robin Cousins and Torvill and Dean. The ice dance pair then returned a decade later to take bronze in Lillehammer, Norway - which was the last time Britain won a medal in figure skating. Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson showed their potential for 2026 by finishing 10th here.
2022 squad | Event | 2022 Winter Olympics result |
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Natasha McKay | Women's singles | 28th |
Lilah Fear | Ice dance | 10th |
Lewis Gibson | Ice dance | 10th |
Freestyle skiing
Izzy Atkin wrote herself into the history books at Pyeongchang in 2018 by becoming the first Briton to win a Winter Olympic ski medal when she took bronze in ski slopestyle. Sadly, she was unable to compete in Beijing and, although no medals were won, there were a number of notable achievements including 17-year-old Kirsty Muir's fifth in ski big air.
2022 squad | Event | 2022 Winter Olympics result |
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Lloyd Wallace | Men's Aerials | 21st |
Leonie Gerken-Schofield | Women's moguls | 27th |
Makayla Gerken-Schofield | Women's moguls | 8th |
Will Feneley | Men's moguls | 27th |
Ollie Davies | Men's ski cross | 31st |
Gus Kenworthy | Men's ski halfpipe | 8th |
Zoe Atkin | Women's ski halfpipe | 9th |
James Woods | Men's ski slopestyle | 30th (big air) |
Izzy Atkin | Women's ski slopestyle | Did not compete |
Kirsty Muir | Women's ski slopestyle and big air | 5th (big air) 8th (slopestyle) |
Katie Summerhayes | Women's ski slopestyle and big air | 9th (slopestyle) 13th (big air) |
Luge
Great Britain has never won a medal in luge. Rupert Staudinger, who competed in his second Games, came 23rd.
2022 squad | Event | 2022 Winter Olympic result |
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Rupert Staudinger | Men's singles | 23rd |
Speed skating
Nicky Gooch is the sole Britain to have won a speed skating medal at an Olympics, collecting bronze in the 500m short track race at the 1994 Games.
2022 squad | Event | 2022 Winter Olympic result |
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Kathryn Thomson | Women's short track 500m, 1000m and 1500m | 28th (1,000m), 31st (500m) |
Farrell Treacy | Men's short track 1000m and 1500m | 9th (1500m), 25th (1,000m) |
Niall Treacy | Men's short track 1000m | 27th (1,000m) |
Cornelius Kersten | Men's long track 1000m and 1500m | 9th (1,000m), 19th (1500m), 25th (500m) |
Ellia Smeding | Women's long track 1000m and 1500m | 23rd (1,000m) 27th (1500m) |
Skeleton
Until this year, Great Britain had won a skeleton medal every time the sport had been included in the Olympics - which equates to nine in seven Games. In 2018, Lizzy Yarnold became the first Briton to retain an Olympic title after also triumphing in Sochi four years earlier. Beijing was a Games to forget for the GB team, who struggled at the Yanqing Sliding Centre.
2022 squad | Event | 2022 Winter Olympic result |
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Laura Deas | Women's | 19th |
Brogan Crowley | Women's | 22nd |
Matt Weston | Men's | 15th |
Marcus Wyatt | Men's | 16th |
Snowboarding
Great Britain had never won a Winter Olympic medal in a snow event - until Jenny Jones' bronze medal in slopestyle at the 2014 Games. Four years later, Billy Morgan became the first British man to achieve the feat when he claimed bronze in big air. Charlotte Bankes was favourite to win snowboard cross but was beaten in the quarter-final.
2022 squad | Event | 2022 Winter Olympic result |
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Huw Nightingale | Men's snowboard cross and team | 6th (team event), 30th |
Charlotte Bankes | Women's snowboard cross and team | 6th (team event), 9th |
Katie Ormerod | Women's slopestyle and big air | 18th (slopestyle), 25th (big air) |
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