Winter Olympics 2026 – skeleton: Heat 4 live comments today with Team GB's Matt Weston going for gold, Marcus Wyatt also in action
By Ben Southby
Updated 13/02/2026 at 21:23 GMT
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Matt Weston won Team GB's first medal of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics with victory in the men's skeleton. Weston slid to a stunning win ahead of Germany duo Axel Jungk and Christopher Grotheer. Fellow Brit Marcus Wyatt came in ninth place. See how Weston claimed gold in style as he smashed the track record four times at the Games to top the podium.
Record-breaking Weston second heat unpacked - 'Cool, calm, composed'
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Matt Weston won skeleton gold for Great Britain at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics on Friday evening.
The Team GB star broke the track record FOUR times as he won Team GB's first medal at the Games.
Fellow Team GB athlete Marcus Wyatt, meanwhile, came ninth.
Read on to see how the action unfolded...
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Podium positions
Here's how the top three ended up...
GOLD: Matt Weston (GBR) - 3:43.33
SILVER: Axel Jungk (GER) - 3:44.21
BRONZE: Christopher Grotheer (GER) - 3:44.40
Team GB's Marcus Wyatt moved up a position and finished ninth!
'He's gone and got gold!'
This is what a delighted - and emotional - Amy Williams had to say in the TNT Sports studio...
"Just incredible, he's done it...he's gone and got gold! It just means so much [to him]. You can see it on his face. It means so much to all of us!
"He got better and better with every single run, track record. He perfected himself and his own performance every single time he got down on that sled.
"It was incredible to watch, just to be able to witness that and the history that he's done, it's not going to hit him!"
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Matt Weston celebrates winning skeleton gold
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Up and running...finally
It feels like it has taken an age, but Great Britain are finally on the medal table.
Team GB slot into 15th overall with one, but it's gold!
Record breaker
After being the first to break the 56-second barrier in Heat 2, Weston has clocked a near-perfect time of 55.61 - incredible!
He is also the first individual male gold medal winner in a Winter Olympic Games since ex-figure skater Robin Cousins in 1980.
A new Olympic champion!
"Uncatchable, unbeatable and undoubtedly the Olympic champion!" are the words on TNT Sports commentary right now.
Weston wins gold with ANOTHER track record - that's four in a row!
Weston wins gold!
Team GB have their first medal at Milano Cortina, and it's GOLD!
German duo on the podium!
Axel Jungk takes at least the silver medal, and that's Grotheer's Olympic title officially gone!
Matt Weston up next...a HUGE moment for Team GB!
Medal for Grotheer
It probably won't be gold again, but Christopher Grotheer will get another medal!
55.93 puts him top with an overall time of 3:44.59.
Two to go!
The pressure mounts!
China's last bullet in the gun, Wenhao Chen, topples the standings and leads with 3:44.59.
He breaks the 56-second barrier with 55.95.
But next, the Olympic champion...
The top five!
Now it's getting serious.
Home slider Amedeo Bagnis makes a bit of a meal of it, but he does go top with a time of 56.07.
Four to go.
Wyett knocked off the podium
Jung Seunggi dropped two places on his run, which means Wyett - who has fallen out of the top three - will have at least gained an extra place than perhaps expected on the leaderboard come the finish.
There goes Wyett's lead
Qinwei Lin outpaces Wyett by 0.16 seconds overall to pip him to the top spot, and the Brit will depart the leaders' box after a valiant effort.
Here goes GB's Wyett!
Can he throw down the gauntlet and surge to the top of the standings with nine to go? He can!
After posting his best time in Heat 3 but dropping from seventh to 10th overall, he clocks a time of 56.24 - his fastest run of the competition - and leads with a time of 3:45.77.
How it looks at the top
The lead is consistently changing hands, as expected, as we rattle through the first 12 sliders and reach the halfway point in the fourth and final heat.
A reminder that Matt Weston has a 0.39-second lead over second-place (and last year's silver medalist) Axel Jungk. Weston added 0.09s to his advantage after Heat 3, from the 0.30s overnight lead he had.
Christopher Grotheer - the 2022 Winter Olympic champion - is in third and 0.75s behind Weston, so he has work to do if he is to defend his title.
Approaching the business end
We're six sliders down, as the top 20 get ready to drop!
Will we see a FOURTH track record?
The temperature is dropping in Cortina, which means we can expect some even faster times as we approach the end of Heat 4 with the ice hardening.
Surely Weston can't break the track record for the FOURTH time?!
A lovely moment
In what could be his last-ever skeleton race, 35-year-old Jared Firestone - who also races in bobsleigh for Israel - jumps into the lead momentarily with a time of 3:51.35.
He picked up skeleton just 12 years ago, after fancying a go after watching the 2014 Winter Games - an incredible story!
Here we go!
This time, the sliders will race in ascending order, with 24th-place Hiroatsu Takahashi, 41, taking to the track first, and Matt Weston, in pole position, will drop last.
We're nearly there!
The action will get back underway for the fourth heat shortly. Can Weston do it?!
Weston has 'got it in the bag'
Olympic gold-medalist and TNT Sports pundit Amy Williams has full belief that Weston will get the job done, but has fired a warning...
"I think he's got it in the bag, and I am very happy and confident to be able to say that," she said.
"But, this is skeleton racing. Anything can happen until the race is finished!"
Heat two complete, onto the final run!
World champion Weston leads the pack with a 0.39-second advantage and is mightily close to collecting his first Olympic medal.
Weston's Team GB team-mate Marcus Wyett has dropped down to 10th in the standings and is currently over a second adrift of the medal positions, which has all but ended his hopes of getting on the podium.
Run 4 will be live on TNT Sports 2 and discovery+ from 20:00 UK time.
Team GB are on the brink of a medal
It will take something special to overhaul Matt Weston from here, after the Brit recorded three consecutive track records to put himself at the top of the tree.
Team GB are so, so close to getting their hands on a first medal at Milano Cortina...but what colour will it be?
The last few sliders - the slowest after two runs - are coming down the track now, and then attention will turn to the fourth and final heat!
Halfway through the third heat
Rasmus Vestergaard Johansen (Denmark), Mattia Gaspari (Italy) and Austin Florian (USA) cannot overhaul Wyett's time, as he clings on to a place in the top 10 with 12 sliders to race.
The top three, as things stand:
- Weston (GBR) - 2:47.72
- Jungk (GER) - 2:48.11
- Grotheer (GER) - 2:48.47
Wyett is falling down the pecking order
Zheng Yin (China), Seunggi Jung (Korea) and Qinwei Lin (China) have all moved above Wyett, who drops to 10th after the first 10 sliders. An uphill battle for the Brit from here!
Weston remains in the lead by a comfortable distance.
Wyett records his best run so far
But it's probably not as fast as he might have hoped for.
He clocks 56.62 seconds and sits seventh in the current standings with 17 sliders to run in the third heat.
German duo chasing Weston
Axel Jungk and Christopher Grotheer are in second and third, respectively, after the first five sliders.
Jungk, in the silver medal position, has a time of 2:48.11 - trailing Weston by a significant margin of 0.39 seconds - 0.09 seconds more than yesterday!
Weston breaks another track record!
What a start for Great Britain!
Weston is first out to complete his third run and clocks 55.63 seconds to remain in the lead!
After runs of 56.21 and 55.88 on Thursday, he breaks the 56-second barrier for the second time to give himself the ultimate chance of landing gold - and Team GB's first medal of the Games.
Watch every event of Milano Cortina 2026 live on discovery+. Available across all subscription plans, starting at £3.99.
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