Wyatt beats GB team-mate Weston to World Cup gold

In the men’s skeleton competition in Latvia, Marcus Wyatt defeated team-mate Matt Weston for World Cup gold.

Wyatt won at the same Sigulda track on Friday after Weston, a two-time world champion, had earlier pipped him to the top spot.

The 34-year-old ran one minute 41.37 seconds to finish just 0.1 seconds clear of Weston, who won silver, and just over half a second ahead of Zheng Yin, who is third from China.

At the World Cup competition in Copper Mountain, Colorado, GB’s Zoe Atkin also won halfpipe gold on Saturday.

Indra Brown, 15, of Australia, won silver, and China’s Kexin Zhang, 18, won bronze.

Atkin narrowly missed out on silver last week at the China freestyle halfpipe competition.

Wyatt’s victory moves him up to third place in the world rankings, trailing only Weston and Yin.

“I wanted to give Matt a better race than I did yesterday, and I came in with the mindset that the win would be there,” said Wyatt.

Before making its way back to Winterberg, Germany on January 2, the circuit heads into the Christmas break.