Team GB went home with its greatest ever medal haul at the 2018 Winter Olympics, meeting the target set by funding partners UK Sport and rejoicing sports fans in Britain. The team was on form this year, with its biggest ever group of 59 athletes, proving that winter sport in the country is finally headed in the right direction.
The team won five medals in the PyeongChang Games, surpassing their previous total of four medals from 1924 and 2014 and meeting their pre-Olympics target. There were plenty of nail-biting moments and close shaves, as well as some fourth places and top 10s. However, one thing is for sure – Team GB is on the up.
In celebration of Great Britain's victories this year, let's take a look at some of those medal-winning moments.
Billy Morgan's big air bronze
Who can forget the moment snowboarder Billy Morgan nailed a trick never done before in the competition, unknowingly winning a bronze medal for Team GB? It was a trick that Morgan himself described as "front-side 14 triple with mute and tail-grab", and it was quite a moment to witness.
The manoeuvre scored Morgan 85.50, putting him third place with a 168.00 total – a position he sustained throughout the next 10 performances. His bronze win was confirmed when Max Parrot fell on his final run. The 28-year-old snowboarder secured Britain its highest ever medal tally in Olympic history.
Izzie Atkin makes history
Nineteen-year-old Atkin became the first Great Britain athlete to win a medal on skis when she took bronze in the women's slopestyle. She was in the fourth position until the third run, when she came into third and made it to the podium.
Dom Parsons wins skeleton bronze
Dom Parsons dramatically took the skeleton bronze, winning Team GB's first medal of the PyeongChang Games. Parsons may have thought he had blown his chances of a win when he slipped behind Nikita Tregubov on his fourth and final run, but a subsequent mistake by Latvia's Martins Dukurs scored him a top-three berth. Thirty-year-old Parsons finished 0.11 seconds ahead of fourth-placed Dukurs with a combined time of three minutes 22.20 seconds.
Lizzie Yarnold goes for gold
Another female athlete who made history in this year's Winter Olympics, Skeleton racer Lizzie Yarnold became the first Briton to defend a Winter Olympics title. The 29-year-old Sochi 2014 champion trailed leader Janine Flock of Austria entering the fourth and final run, where she overhauled the deficit. According to Omega – official timekeepers of the Olympics – Yarnold won the gold medal by just 0.45 seconds.
Laura Deas bags a bronze
Yarnold's teammate Laura Deas claimed bronze by 0.02secs as Britain won two medals from the same sporting event for the first time in Winter Olympic history. Paying tribute to Yarnold, Deas said: "I can't believe I am part of a Super Saturday, I never thought I'd be saying that. I'm extremely proud to be part of a historic day."
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