ON WITH THE SNOW
A century after the first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix, France, SHARON GREEN looks at the top 10 GB gold medal winners who have set the ice alight...
for Team GB with the claiming gold. The side of William Jackson, Thomas Murray, Robin Welsh and Laurence
The most famous GB Winter Olympians of all time, and wowed the crowds – and judges – in Sarajevo when they danced to Bolero. Next week we remember that magical performance 40 years ago.
became a superstar overnight in Vancouver when the former runner beat off the competition in the exhilarating and terrifying sport of women’s skeleton – bringing home the first British Winter Olympic gold medal for 30 years.
Olympic gold medals in the 2014 Sochi Games and the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, successful GB
and the most successful Olympic skeleton athlete of all time from any nation.
It was in Innsbruck that 26-year-old Birmingham-born became the first Briton to win the Olympic men’s figure-skating championship. He was at the peak of his career in 1976 and executed three triple jumps to beat rival, Vladimir Kovalyov of Russia. Curry also won World and European titles that same year.
pulled off a major upset at the Games in Garmisch-partenkirchen, Germany, beating favourites Canada and becoming the first team ever to win an Olympic, World and European gold in the same year.
tennis to focus on her skating proved dividends for who was awarded gold at the Oslo Games, adding to the bronze she won in 1948 and gold at the 1951 European Championships.
and won gold in Salt Lake City, beating Switzerland in a thrilling final.
who took gold in the same event in Lake Placid. The year marked a pinnacle in the future Dancing On Ice judge’s amateur career, seeing him win gold at both the European Championships and the Olympics where he skated a spectacular long programme, receiving 5.9/6.0 from eight of the nine judges for artistic impression.