Enormous Britain’s Amelia Coltman made the upper of the video display instances to rep girls folk’s skeleton gold in the opening flee of the World Cup series in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

The 28-yr-old had never beforehand accomplished elevated than fourth at a World Cup tournament, but after sitting in 15th following the critical flee she produced the 2d-quickest time in the 2d to rep in an overall time of 1 minute forty eight.41 seconds.

She had trailed Austria’s Janine Flock – leader after the critical warmth – by 1.22 seconds, but as temperatures rose and the video display slowed following Coltman’s 2d flee, the early frontrunners were unable to match her time.

Flock accomplished 2d overall, 0.08secs slack, while Brazil’s Nicole Rocha Silveira, who used to be thirteenth after the critical flee, came through to instruct a shock bronze.

GB’s Freya Tarbit accomplished 0.02secs out of doors the medals in fourth, while personnel-mate Tabitha Stoecker fell from third location after the opening flee to 18th.

The British personnel has three competitors – reigning World Cup champion Matt Weston, European Champion Marcus Wyatt and Craig Thompson – coming into into the men’s World Cup opener on Saturday, from 11:00 GMT.