Britain's Matt Weston finishes dominant run to men's skeleton world title

The Associated Press

· Posted: Mar 07, 2025 2:39 PM EST | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

Britain's Matt Weston had everyone racing for 2nd spot astatine the men's skeleton satellite championships, aft capping a ascendant show Friday by leaving nary uncertainty that he'll caput into adjacent play arsenic the favourite for Olympic gold.

Weston won his 2nd satellite rubric connected Friday, finishing disconnected an casual triumph astatine the satellite championships successful Lake Placid. He completed 4 runs down the way — perchance the 1 that'll play big to adjacent year's Olympics — successful 3 minutes, 35.48 seconds.

Weston's winning borderline of 1.90 seconds was the second-largest successful a men's satellite championships since skeleton was restored to the Olympic programme astir a quarter-century ago.

Weston becomes the 5th antheral to triumph the satellite rubric astatine slightest twice, joining seven-time champion — and existent subordinate of the British coaching unit — Martins Dukurs of Latvia, three-time champions Christopher Grotheer of Germany and Gregor Stahli of Switzerland, and two-time winners Ryan Davenport and Jeff Pain, some of Canada.

WATCH | Weston wins 2nd satellite title:

Britain's Marcus Wyatt was 2nd successful 3:37.38, and Germany's Axel Jungk got the bronze successful 3:37.41. Ukraine's Vladyslav Heraskecych was fourth, missing a medal by 0.08 seconds.

Zheng Yin of China was 5th and Austin Florian was the apical American, placing sixth.

Weston's archetypal satellite rubric was astatine St. Moritz, Switzerland, 2 years ago. He besides won the wide World Cup rubric this play for the 2nd consecutive year.