IBSF World Championships 2023: Great Britain win silver & bronze in mixed skeleton
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Matt Weston is third in the overall World Cup men's skeleton rankings this season
Great Britain won silver and bronze in the mixed skeleton at the World Championships in St Mortiz as Matt Weston continued his fine form.
After winning the men's world title, Weston, 25, partnered Laura Deas, 34, to second place in the mixed event.
They finished 0.13 seconds behind the German pairing of women's champion Susanne Kreher and Christopher Grotheer.
Britain's Brogan Crowley, 28, and Craig Thompson, 30, finished third.
Weston won a first gold medal for Britain in the men's event for 15 years on Friday, while Wales-born Deas was ninth in the women's.
British Skeleton performance director Natalie Dunman said: "To see two Union flags flying is a really proud moment for everyone involved."
Weston and Deas finished in a combined time of two minutes 25.04 seconds, 0.28 seconds ahead of team-mates Thompson and Crowley.
Thompson had missed out on a medal in the men's event by only one hundredth of a second.
Two medals in the mixed bodes well for the next Winter Olympics, with the event being added to the schedule for Milan and Cortina in 2026.
Weston, who is third in the men's world rankings, went into the World Championships in superb form, having been crowned European champion after winning three of the last four World Cup events.
GB fifth in two-man bobsleigh
Britain's Brad Hall and Taylor Lawrence finished fifth in the two-man bobsleigh, 0.93secs behind German winners Johannes Lochner and Georg Fleischhauer.
They went into the final two of four runs in fourth but lost further ground, clocking a total time of 4:22.77 to fall agonisingly short of a first British podium finish in the event since 1966.
Hall, 32, and Lawrence, 26, who are third in the World Cup standings, produced consistently strong starts - second fastest on the first three runs and third on the final run - but were unable to carry that speed down the track.
Meanwhile World Cup leader Lochner, 32, ended compatriot Francesco Friedrich's run of seven consecutive World Championship titles, beating his team-mate by 0.49secs, while Switzerland's Michael Vogt was third on his home track, missing silver by 0.01sec.
The British pair will go again as part of the four-man team on 4 and 5 February.
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