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Nice Britain’s Matt Weston on brink of back-to-back World Cup titles

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Nice Britain’s Matt Weston is on the point of back-to-back world titles after a dominant show in St Moritz to win his second successive World Cup skeleton gold.

Weston, who grew to become the primary Briton to win the general males’s World Cup title in 16 years in St Moritz final yr, reproduced his nice kind that noticed him win the sixth race of the skeleton World Cup season final week in Winterberg.

The 27-year-old completed 0.54 seconds forward of Olympic champion Christopher Grotheer to increase his lead forward of team-mate Marcus Wyatt on the high of the general standings by 123 factors.

The end result means a Fifteenth-place end within the closing race in Norway in February could be sufficient to safe successive total World Cup crowns.

“It is positively further particular to win right here in St Moritz,” mentioned Weston, who has medalled in each race he has entered this season.

“It is particular irrespective of the place you end on this observe due to the historical past, however to come back away with gold means an enormous quantity.

“Hopefully, I am going to come away with the general title, that is the principle aim goal in the intervening time.

“To enter the World Championships in Lake Placid with the general title gained could be a giant increase.”

Nice Britain’s Wyatt, who has picked up 4 medals this season, completed eighth in St Moritz, with team-mate Jacob Salisbury coming twenty second.

Within the ladies’s race, Tabby Stoecker simply missed a medal to complete fourth, with GB’s Amelia Coltman and Freya Tarbit ending up eleventh and seventeenth.

Austria’s Janine Flock gained gold forward of Belgium’s Kim Meylemans and Brazil’s Nicole Silveira.

Flock now leads the general standings by 90 factors, whereas Coltman sits fifth, Tarbit seventh and Stoecker eighth forward of the ultimate World Cup race of the marketing campaign.

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