GB Olympic Medallist Tracker: Their Road to Glory in Italy

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The 2026 Olympic Winter Games are taking place in Italy, hundreds of miles away from the hometowns of the Team GB athletes who have journeyed there in search of fulfilling a dream. Of course, some members of the British contingent have had a longer road than others to get to the pinnacle of their sport. For the duration of the Games, SportsTravel will keep tabs on the GB medal winners in our own, travel-friendly way:

Matt Weston

Event/Discipline: Men’s skeleton / Mixed team skeleton

Medals: Gold (2)
Hometown: Redhill, Surrey, England
Approximate distance to Cortina d’Ampezzo: 857 miles

Road to Glory: Weston was born in Redhill, Surrey, and brought up in Crowborough, East Sussex. From there, he went to Bennett Memorial School in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, and showed an early aptitude for sports, including practising taekwondo for England and playing rugby for his county and town. By the age of 17, Weston had been forced to retire from taekwondo due to a stress fracture in his back.

By 2017, he had transitioned to skeleton after a weightlifting coach from his rugby days suggested that he try the Discover Your Gold talent identification scheme, which gave him his first taste of the winter sport in which he would eventually make his name. He honed his craft using the wooden push-start track at the University of Bath – the only one of its type in the UK.

By the time Weston had made his Olympic debut in Beijing in 2022 (finishing 15th), he had already won Great Britain’s first men’s skeleton World Cup gold in 14 years, less than two years after starting the sport. Coming into his second Olympic Winter Games as a big favourite for gold, Weston was already a world and European champion and a three-time World Cup title holder.

In Milan Cortina, the athlete won GB’s first medal of any colour (gold) in the men’s skeleton and backed that up with a second gold two days later, this time in the inaugural mixed team skeleton event with Tabby Stoecker. As a result, Weston is now the only male athlete in GB Winter Olympic history to win more than one gold — and in the same Games at that.

He also emulated fellow Brits Amy Williams (2010) and Lizzy Yarnold (2014 / 2018) by topping the podium and was only the fourth British man to medal in skeleton at the Olympic Games.

Tabby Stoecker

Event/Discipline: Women’s skeleton / Mixed team skeleton
Medal: Gold
Hometown: Highgate, London, England
Approximate distance to Cortina d’Ampezzo: 876 miles

Road to Glory: A fellow graduate of Team Bath’s wooden push-start track, Tabby Stoecker also got into skeleton through the same Discover Your Gold Talent ID process as Weston, having seen an advertisement for it on Instagram back in 2019.

Born in Highgate, London, she initially trained to be a circus performer, including competing in trapeze and acrobatics before coming across skeleton by chance and joining the British Skeleton team. Her impressive early sporting pedigree also included becoming a British Schools Gymnastics Association national trio champion and excelling in netball.

The racer began competing professionally in the Europa Cup in 2021 in Igls, Austria, finishing in seventh place. Since then, she has gone on to achieve accolades as a double World Cup race winner (including in her first top-tier start in La Plagne, France, in 2023), a double World Championship medallist, a double Junior World Championship medal winner and a Junior European champion.

Now competing in her first Olympic Winter Games, Stoecker finished fifth in the women’s skeleton before topping the podium in the inaugural mixed team skeleton event with teammate Matt Weston, himself a double Olympic gold medallist from the Milan Cortina Games.

Charlotte Bankes

Event/Discipline: Women’s snowboard cross / Mixed team snowboard cross
Medal: Gold
Hometown: Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England
Approximate distance to Cortina d’Ampezzo: 894 miles

Road to Glory: It has been some journey to Olympic success for 30-year-old Charlotte Bankes. Originally from Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, she moved out to L’Argentière-la-Bessée in the French Alps with her family when she was just four and it soon sparked her interest in a career in winter sports.

Having competed for 15 years on the international stage, Bankes originally represented France in snowboard cross at the 2014 and 2018 Olympic Winter Games (in Sochi and Pyeongchang respectively) before switching her allegiance to Great Britain after the 2018 Games. She had started out in skiing whereas her brothers were snowboarders who harboured dreams of qualifying for the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, but it was Charlotte who achieved that milestone.

After beginning on the circuit in 2010, a crash that left her with a fractured pelvis in 2011 almost led her to quit the sport entirely as the pain continued to restrict her potential, and a desire to find a long-term cure led her to switch from the French team to Team GB after the Pyeongchang Games.

Eight years later Bankes is now a two-time World Cup overall winner (Britain’s first snowboarding world champion and the first British woman to secure a world title in a winter sport for 85 years), a two-time World Championship gold medallist and now an Olympic gold medallist. In Milan Cortina, she won the snowboard cross mixed team final on her second run alongside Huw Nightingale, and became Team GB’s first gold medallists on snow in the process.

Huw Nightingale

Event/Discipline: Men’s snowboard cross / Mixed team snowboard cross
Medal: Gold
Hometown: Bolton, Greater Manchester, England
Approximate distance to Cortina d’Ampezzo: 1078 miles

Road to Glory: Huw Nightingale’s pursuit of Olympic glory in snowboard cross was a lesson in resilience and teamwork. Four years earlier in Nightingale’s first Olympic Games in Beijing, the pair had finished sixth in the mixed event (with Nightingale finishing 30th in the individual event) before they then made history together by winning Great Britain’s first snowboard cross mixed title at the 2023 World Championships in Bakuriani, Georgia.

His road to gold can be traced back to 2007, when Nightingale (aged five) and his family moved out from Bolton in England to Westendorf in Austria to open a bed-and-breakfast, ironically just 15km away from the legendary Kitzbühel, where the annual Hahnenkamm downhill race is held.

Coming into 2026, Nightingale was already a world champion in the mixed team event and a top-10 finisher at the 2025 World Championships in Cervinia on the Italian-Swiss border, which helped him rise to 35th in the World Cup overall standings.

In Milan Cortina, he won gold with teammate Charlotte Bankes in the snowboard cross mixed team final.

Bruce Mouat

Event/Discipline: Men’s curling / Curling mixed doubles team
Medal: Silver or Gold TBD
Hometown: Edinburgh, Scotland
Approximate distance to Cortina d’Ampezzo: 1255 miles

Road to Glory: An accomplished curler and skip from Edinburgh, Mouat is the first person to represent Team GB in both the men’s and the mixed doubles at the same Olympic Winter Games. In 2022, he led his men’s team to a silver medal in Beijing and he has previously secured multiple World Championships titles in 2023 and 2025.

Despite no prior family connection to the sport, he began curling at the age of seven when his father saw a newspaper advertisement for a junior club in Edinburgh. He developed his skills at Gogar Park Curling Club, which helped him to win the Scottish Under-17 Championship aged 17.

Outside of curling, he graduated from Edinburgh Napier University eight years ago with a first-class degree in International Festival and Event Management with Entrepreneurship.

Grant Hardie

Event/Discipline: Men’s curling
Medal: Silver or Gold TBD
Hometown: Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Approximate distance to Cortina d’Ampezzo: 1257 miles

Road to Glory: As vice-skip of Team Mouat, Hardie returned for his second Olympic Winter Games in Milan Cortina, having narrowly missed out on a gold medal against Sweden in the men’s team final four years ago in Beijing.

Since 2022, he helped Team Mouat secure a gold medal at the 2023 World Curling Championships in Ottawa, Ontario, and clinched a fourth successive European title. They also added a European silver in 2024 and reclaimed their world title at the 2025 World Curling Championships in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.

Hardie’s family has its own track record in the sport. His parents were curlers and his uncle was crowned a world champion in 1999, while cousin Hammy McMillan Jr is also on the men’s curling team.

A graduate in Civil Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, Hardie has leveraged those skills at Team Mouat by using data to formulate their curling strategy.

Hammy McMillan Jr

Event/Discipline: Men’s curling
Medal: Silver or Gold TBD
Hometown: Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Approximate distance to Cortina d’Ampezzo: 1257 miles

Road to Glory: Hammy McMillan Jr well and truly has curling in his blood: he is the son of 1999 world champion Hammy McMillan, his cousin Grant Hardie plays on his team and his cousin Robyn Munro is his mixed doubles partner. He was first introduced to curling by his father at the age of seven at Stranraer Ice Rink in Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, where his family moved after leaving McMillan Jr’s birthplace in Glasgow.

The lead was competing in his second Olympic Winter Games in Milan Cortina, having narrowly missed out on gold against Sweden in the final in Beijing in 2022.

His other achievements include six World Curling Championship appearances as part of Team Mouat, winning bronze in 2018, silver in 2021 and golds in 2023 and 2025. Meanwhile, he won a fourth successive European title in 2023 before a silver a year later in Lohja, Finland.

Off the rink, McMillan Jr is also employed as a curling development officer, in which he spearheads efforts to grow the sport nationally across Scotland.

Bobby Lammie

Event/Discipline: Men’s curling
Medal: Silver or Gold TBD
Hometown: Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Approximate distance to Cortina d’Ampezzo: 1183 miles

Road to Glory: Robert “Bobby” Lammie is the youngest member of Team Mouat, and like a number of his team mates, he is competing in his second Olympic Winter Games in Milan Cortina. Playing second on Team Mouat, he claimed a silver medal in Beijing.

His other major achievements include winning gold at the World Curling Championships in 2023 and 2025, four European Championship titles, 12 Grand Slam titles and his first senior world medals in 2018 (bronze) and 2021 (silver).

Now residing in Stirling, Lammie has a degree in Sport and Exercise Science from the University of Stirling.

His girlfriend is South Korean curler Seol Ye-eun, who was also participating in the Games in Italy.