Skeleton at the 2026 Winter Olympics – Mixed team

Skeleton mixed team
at the XXV Olympic Winter Games
VenueCortina Sliding Centre
Cortina d'Ampezzo
Date15 February 2026
Competitors30 from 10 nations
Winning time1:59.36
Medalists
Tabitha Stoecker
Matt Weston
 Great Britain
Susanne Kreher
Axel Jungk
 Germany
Jacqueline Pfeifer
Christopher Grotheer
 Germany

The mixed team competition in skeleton at the 2026 Winter Olympics was held on 15 February at the Cortina Sliding Centre in Cortina d'Ampezzo.[1] This was the inaugural edition of this event at the Olympics. Tabitha Stoecker and Matt Weston of Great Britain won the event. Susanne Kreher and Axel Jungk of Germany won the silver medal, and their teammates Jacqueline Pfeifer and Christopher Grotheer won bronze.[2][3] For Stoecker, this was her first Olympic medal and made her the third female skeleton athlete for Great Britain to win an Olympic gold medal after Amy Williams and Lizzy Yarnold, whilst it was the second gold Olympic medal of the Games for Weston having also become champion in the mens' individual event two days earlier. This also made Weston only the second British athlete after Lizzy Yarnold to win two Winter Olympic gold medals and first British Athlete to win multiple gold medals at the same Winter Olympics.

Background

Great Britain I won the 2025–26 Skeleton World Cup, which consisted of four events. It was followed by Germany I and the United States I. The United States 1 (Mystique Ro and Austin Florian) were the 2025 World champion, followed by Great Britain 1 (Tabitha Stoecker and Matt Weston) and China 2 (Zhao Dan and Lin Qinwei).

Qualification

Summary

Teams qualified Countries Athletes total Nation
2 5 20  China
 Germany
 Great Britain
 Italy
 United States
1 5 10  Austria
 Canada
 Denmark
 Latvia
 South Korea
15 10 30

Results

Rank Bib Athletes Country Women's Rank Men's Rank Total Behind
15 Tabitha Stoecker
Matt Weston
 Great Britain 1:00.77 4 58.59 1 1:59.36 TR
13 Susanne Kreher
Axel Jungk
 Germany 1:00.59 3 58.94 2 1:59.53 +0.17
14 Jacqueline Pfeifer
Christopher Grotheer
 Germany 1:00.53 2 59.01 4 1:59.54 +0.18
4 12 Freya Tarbit
Marcus Wyatt
 Great Britain 1:00.47 1 59.18 6 1:59.65 +0.29
5 10 Zhao Dan
Chen Wenhao
 China 1:00.77 4 59.16 5 1:59.93 +0.57
6 9 Alessandra Fumagalli
Amedeo Bagnis
 Italy 1:01.06 6 58.98 3 2:00.04 +0.68
7 7 Mystique Ro
Austin Florian
 United States 1:01.08 7 59.31 7 2:00.39 +1.03
8 5 Liang Yuxin
Lin Qinwei
 China 1:01.27 8 59.39 9 2:00.66 +1.30
9 11 Janine Flock
Samuel Maier
 Austria 1:01.66 11 59.35 8 2:01.01 +1.65
10 4 Kelly Curtis
Dan Barefoot
 United States 1:01.30 9 1:00.13 14 2:01.43 +2.07
11 8 Hong Su-jung
Jung Seung-gi
 South Korea 1:01.84 13 59.61 11 2:01.45 +2.09
12 3 Nanna Johansen
Rasmus Johansen
 Denmark 1:02.15 14 59.43 10 2:01.58 +2.22
13 1 Marta Andžāne
Emīls Indriksons
 Latvia 1:01.67 12 59.99 13 2:01.66 +2.30
14 6 Valentina Margaglio
Mattia Gaspari
 Italy 1:02.24 15 59.72 12 2:01.96 +2.60
15 2 Jane Channell
Josip Brusic
 Canada 1:01.57 10 1:01.07 15 2:02.64 +3.28
Official results

References

  1. ^ "2026 Olympic Winter Games Competition Schedule Version - Skeleton". Retrieved 5 February 2026.
  2. ^ "Team GB's Matt Weston and Tabitha Stoecker win gold in mixed team skeleton at Milano Cortina Winter Olympics". TNT Sports. Retrieved 25 February 2026.
  3. ^ "'Super Sunday' for Team GB as Weston and Stoecker win gold in skeleton". The Independent. Retrieved 25 February 2026.