Tabitha Stoecker wrote her name into the history books as the inaugural mixed team skeleton Olympic champion at Milano Cortina 2026.
The slider soared to gold alongside teammate Matt Weston in Italy to clinch Olympic gold on debut in Cortina.
A former British Schools Gymnastics Champion and acrobat, Stoecker has swapped front flips for sleds and also has two World Championship medals to her name.
Stoecker first picked up skeleton through the Discover Your Gold campaign in 2019, and won World Cup gold in La Plagne in just her second start in December 2023. It marked Britain’s first female race win since 2015.
A junior European champion and two-time junior world silver medallist, Stoecker quickly rose up the ranks of the British team.
In 2024, Stoecker teamed up with Weston to win World Championship silver in the mixed team event, coming agonisingly close to an individual medal at the showpiece, finishing fourth by just two hundredths of a second.
A year later, Stoecker and Weston replicated their podium worthy performance and clinched back-to-back silver medals.
In 2026, Stoecker won Britain’s first female skeleton overall World Cup medal for 11 years with third place.
