{"id":762653,"date":"2026-02-13T22:05:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T22:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/762653\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T22:05:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T22:05:25","slug":"matt-weston-secures-skeleton-gold-as-great-britain-grab-first-medal-in-cortina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/762653\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Weston secures skeleton gold as Great Britain grab first medal in Cortina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dual world champion had dominated from the beginning of the competition, setting track records in both of his first two runs at the Cortina Sliding Centre on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>He started the final two heats on Friday with a combined time of one minute 52.09s, 0.3s ahead of Axel Jungk, and quickly built on that advantage when setting another new best in clocking 55.63s for his third run.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"525\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">IT\u2019S GOLD FOR MATT WESTON!!!!!!! \ud83e\udd47\ud83e\udd47\ud83e\udd47 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TeamGB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#TeamGB<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MilanoCortina2026?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MilanoCortina2026<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xtGiG4TmRB\">pic.twitter.com\/xtGiG4TmRB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Team GB (@TeamGB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamGB\/status\/2022415126155137513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That gave him a 0.39s advantage over Jungk going into the final heat and Weston made no mistake as he increased his margin of victory to 0.88s in his final run.<\/p>\n<p>Jungk was second with fellow German Christopher Grotheer third.<\/p>\n<p>Weston said: \u201c[It means] everything. It means a hell of a lot to me personally, I have worked so hard for this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone back at home, my fiancee, my family, my friends, everyone that has sacrificed for me to be here. I have missed funerals, birthdays, everything for this moment and it feels amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The dual world champion had dominated from the beginning of the competition, setting track records in both of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-762653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116065594749871235","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}