Landmark bronze for Stoecker in skeleton World Cup

Tabby Stoecker has become the first British woman to win an overall skeleton World Cup medal for more than a decade.

The 25-year-old secured bronze with a sixth-place finish in the final event of the season in Altenberg, Germany.

Britain’s most recent medal in the competition was Lizzy Yarnold’s silver in 2015 – either side of her golds at the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics in Sochi and PyeongChang.

Stoecker – a former trapeze artist – recorded five top-six finishes across the campaign including a European Championship silver last week in St Moritz in a race doubling up as a World Cup event.

Points from each event are awarded to the top 30 finishers and totalled across the campaign.

Stoecker is the fourth British woman to win an overall World Cup medal, with Yarnold’s fellow Olympic medallists Shelley Rudman and Alex Coomber having also landed podium finishes in the competition.