Skeleton World Cup: Matt Weston and Marcus Wyatt win overall silver and bronze
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Matt Weston, middle, and Marcus Wyatt, left, become the first British men to win an overall medal since 2008
Matt Weston and Marcus Wyatt have become the first British athletes to win overall skeleton World Cup medals since Lizzy Yarnold in 2015.
Laura Deas, 34, then won silver on the same track in Sigulda, Latvia, her best World Cup result for eight years.
Weston, 25, and Wyatt, 31, won World Cup gold and silver to seal an overall season silver and bronze respectively.
They were beaten to gold in the overall standings by Germany's Christopher Grotheer, 30.
World champion Weston matched Yarnold's British record of seven World Cup medals in one season.
He won five of the eight events and finished third in two others but an 18th place in Utah in the second race of the season ultimately cost him the overall title as Grotheer, who won twice, did not finish outside the top five in any race.
Weston previously became Britain's first men's skeleton world champion in 15 years in January.
"The feeling is absolutely amazing and I don't think I'll ever get used to it," he said.
"I'm almost lost for words when I think back at how sliding was last year compared to this year and the big changes we've made.
"It's given me even more motivation to keep working hard and to keep pushing over the next few years to hopefully go and do what we've been doing this year at the Olympics in Milan [in 2026]."
Craig Thompson finished fourth in Latvia as British men narrowly failed to occupy all three of the podium positions for the first time in a World Cup race.
Deas, an Olympic medallist in 2018, came close to winning her second ever World Cup gold as she finished only five hundredths of a second behind overall World Cup winner Tina Hermann.
"I'd have loved to have won but this is still a fantastic way to finish the season," Deas said.
"It's great to feel like I can be this competitive even when my runs aren't perfect. I haven't felt that way for a long time."