A brilliant start to season continues with maiden medal

British Skeleton’s superb start to the new season continued in the early hours of Friday morning as Brogan Crowley won World Cup silver in Whistler.

Crowley’s maiden medal came just a few hours after Marcus Wyatt had won gold and Matt Weston bronze in the men’s race at the same venue.

The 28-year-old jumped up from sixth after the first run to joint second at the finish to smash her previous personal best of fifth in the first of eight scheduled World Cup competitions this season.

Crowley set a new start record - just as Wyatt and Weston had done earlier on - as she finished level with American Hallie Clarke and 18 hundredths of a second behind reigning Olympic Champion Hannah Neise in Canada. Fellow Brit Laura Deas finished 12th in a time of 1:48.91.

In the bobsleigh, they made it two medals in as many days as they won World Cup silver in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Brad Hall, Arran Gulliver, Taylor Lawrence and Greg Cackett backed up Hall and Lawrence’s two-man silver on Saturday with another superb showing on the world’s fastest track.

Just as was the case 24 hours earlier, only double back-to-back Olympic Champion Francesco Friedrich finished above them in Canada on the opening weekend of the World Cup season. The result capped a remarkable three days for the country’s bobsleigh and skeleton teams.