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Tabitha Stoecker

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Tabitha Stoecker
Personal information
NicknameTabby[1]
Born (2000-11-24) 24 November 2000 (age 25)
Highgate, London, England
Sport
CountryGreat Britain
SportSkeleton
Medal record
Skeleton
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2026 Milano CortinaMixed team
World Championships
Silver medal – second place2024 WinterbergMixed team
Silver medal – second place2025 Lake PlacidMixed team
European Championships
Silver medal – second place2026 St. MoritzWomen
Skeleton World Cup
Bronze medal – third place2025-26 OverallWomen

Tabitha Stoecker (born 24 November 2000) is a British skeleton racer. Partnering Matt Weston, she became an Olympic champion in the inaugural edition of the mixed team event at the 2026 Games in Milano-Cortina. She is a two-time IBSF World Championships silver medallist in the same event.

Stoecker joined British Skeleton in 2019 and began competing in the Europa Cup in 2021. In both 2022 and 2023, she finished runner-up at the Junior World Championships. In 2023, she became the junior European champion and won her first World Cup event. At both the 2024 and 2025 World Championships, she secured silver medals in the mixed team competition alongside Weston. Stoecker placed fifth in the women's skeleton at the 2026 Winter Olympics. In the 2025–26 season, she became a European Championships silver medallist and the overall World Cup bronze medallist in the women's individual competitions.

Life and career

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Tabitha Stoecker was born on 24 November 2000 in Highgate, London. She attended City of London School for Girls,[1] and was a British schools gymnastics champion.[2] Around the age of 11, she attended an open day at the National Centre for Circus Arts in London. For the next six years, she trained in disciplines like the trapeze, clowning and juggling.[3] She later attended university in Cardiff.[4]

Stoecker joined British Skeleton after participating in UK Sport's Discover Your Gold talent identification programme in 2019. When she found out she had been selected for skeleton, Stoecker did not know what the sport was, but decided to try it out.[5][6] She continued her training in Bath, Somerset,[4] which is home to a push-start track, the only one of its type in the UK.[6] Stoecker made her Europa Cup debut in 2021,[1] and in both 2022 and 2023, she won the silver medal at the IBSF Junior World Championships.[7][8] Stoecker became the 2023 junior European champion at Igls. She placed second overall in that season's Europa Cup standings, recording two victories from six events to finish behind compatriot Freya Tarbit.[9] At the 2023 IBSF World Championships, she finished 23rd.[10]

During the 2023–24 World Cup, Stoecker won her first World Cup race in her second ever start in the competition. Her win came at La Plagne, and marked the first time that a female British slider had won a World Cup event since Laura Deas eight years previously. She finished 0.07 seconds ahead of second-placed Mystique Ro.[2] The following week, she finished third in a subsequent race in the series in Innsbruck.[11] Stoecker represented Great Britain at the 2024 IBSF World Championships in Winterberg, placing fourth in the individual event, before winning a silver medal in the mixed team race with Matt Weston. The duo were 0.12 seconds behind the German pairing of Christopher Grotheer and Hannah Neise.[10]

In the 2024–25 World Cup, Stoecker and Marcus Wyatt won the mixed team race in Altenberg.[12] In March 2025, she competed at the IBSF World Championships in Lake Placid. Stoecker placed eighth in the women's race,[1] but secured a silver medal partnering Weston in the mixed team event; they finished a tenth of a second behind USA's gold-medal winners Mystique Ro and Austin Florian.[13]

For the 2025–26 World Cup, Stoecker partnered with Wyatt in the mixed team events, and the pair won the first leg of the series in Cortina. Stoecker also finished fifth in the women's event.[14] She then won a silver medal in the individual competition in Lillehammer.[15] She and Wyatt then claimed the gold medal with a track record time in the mixed team event at the same venue ,[15] before she won an individual silver in Sigulda.[citation needed] In January 2026, at the European Championships in St Moritz, Stoecker won the silver medal. With the championships doubling up as a World Cup race, she rose to fourth in the overall standings for the season.[16] Later that month, Stoecker finished in sixth place in the individual event at the final round of the World Cup series in Altenberg. The result helped earn her an overall bronze medal for the series. Her medal was the first overall World Cup medal achieved by a British female slider since Lizzy Yarnold in 2015.[17]

Stoecker was named to Great Britain's squad for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy.[18] Competing in the women's skeleton at the Cortina Sliding Centre, she placed fifth after her opening two runs, with a 0.53 seconds deficit to the race leader. Stoecker lost additional time during her third run, but maintained fifth position following her fourth run, finishing 1.46 seconds slower than Austria's Janine Flock who secured gold.[19] She then won gold with Weston in the inaugural mixed team event. Stoecker raced first, before Weston made up three tenths of a second as the British duo finished the event 0.17 seconds ahead of German pairing Axel Jungk and Susanne Kreher.[20] Their combined time of 1:59.36 was a track record for the venue.[21] She subsequently became the youngest-ever inductee of the University of Bath Hall of Fame for Sport.[22]

Career results

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Olympic Games

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Year Event Position Ref
Representing  Great Britain
Italy 2026 Milan Cortina Women's skeleton 5th [19]
Mixed team 1st place, gold medalist(s) [20]

World Championships

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Event Women's Skeleton Mixed Team Ref
Representing  Great Britain
 Switzerland  2023 St. Moritz 23rd N/A [10]
Germany 2024 Winterberg 4th 2nd [10]
United States 2025 Lake Placid 8th 2nd [13]

European Championships

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Year Event Location Position Ref
2026 Women's skeleton Switzerland St Moritz 2nd [16]

World Cup victories

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Year Event Location Teammate Ref
2023–24 Women's skeleton France La Plagne N/A [2]
2024–25 Mixed team Germany Altenberg Marcus Wyatt [12]
2025–26 Mixed team Italy Cortina [14]
Mixed team Norway Lillehammer [15]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 "Tabby Stoecker". British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association. Archived from the original on 18 March 2025. Retrieved 3 January 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 "Tabby Stoecker wins Skeleton World Cup gold on second start". BBC Sport. 8 December 2023. Archived from the original on 14 January 2025. Retrieved 2 January 2026.
  3. ↑ Gunston, Jo (9 January 2026). "Tabby Stoecker exclusive: From circus school to skeleton athlete eyeing Olympic medal at Milano Cortina 2026". Olympics.com. Archived from the original on 10 January 2026. Retrieved 25 January 2026.
  4. 1 2 Loubser, Isabel (13 February 2026). "Winter Olympics ace Tabby set to go for gold!". Islington Tribune. Archived from the original on 20 February 2026. Retrieved 28 June 2026.
  5. ↑ Luckhurst, Phoebe (30 January 2026). "Meet Team GB women's skeleton team who are going for gold". The Times. Archived from the original on 2 February 2026. Retrieved 7 July 2026.
  6. 1 2 Kipling, Ella (16 February 2026). "Team GB skeleton gold medallist says she discovered talent after Instagram ad". BBC News. Archived from the original on 26 June 2026. Retrieved 26 June 2026.
  7. ↑ "Silver for Stoecker at Junior Worlds". British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association. 21 January 2022. Archived from the original on 15 January 2025. Retrieved 3 January 2026.
  8. ↑ Green, Peter (14 February 2023). "Pain no barrier as Freya lands skeleton medal". Derby Telegraph. Reach. Retrieved 3 January 2026.
  9. ↑ "Triple triumph for Tarbit & Stoecker". British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association. 17 February 2023. Archived from the original on 15 January 2025. Retrieved 3 January 2026.
  10. 1 2 3 4 "Featured: GB win silver in skeleton team race". British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association. 1 March 2024. Archived from the original on 25 March 2025. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
  11. ↑ "Skeleton athlete Kimberley Bos wins the BMW IBSF World Cup in Innsbruck". International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation. 15 December 2023. Archived from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 3 January 2026.
  12. 1 2 "GB's Stoecker & Wyatt win mixed skeleton gold". BBC Sport. 7 December 2024. Archived from the original on 9 December 2024. Retrieved 2 January 2026.
  13. 1 2 "Weston and Stoecker win silver at skeleton Worlds". BBC Sport. 9 March 2025. Archived from the original on 9 March 2025. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
  14. 1 2 "GB clinch two skeleton golds in World Cup opener". BBC Sport. 22 November 2025. Archived from the original on 1 January 2026. Retrieved 2 January 2026.
  15. 1 2 3 Collins, Ben (12 December 2025). "GB's Weston wins second straight skeleton World Cup gold". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on 2 January 2026. Retrieved 2 January 2026.
  16. 1 2 Cowen, Ailsa (9 January 2026). "Weston wins gold as Stoecker takes silver in St Moritz". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on 10 January 2026. Retrieved 10 January 2026.
  17. ↑ "British pair seal skeleton World Cup landmarks". BBC Sport. 16 January 2026. Archived from the original on 19 January 2026. Retrieved 19 January 2026.
  18. ↑ "Nicoll named first British monobob Olympian". BBC Sport. 22 January 2026. Archived from the original on 26 January 2026. Retrieved 26 January 2026.
  19. 1 2 "Winter Olympics: Tabby Stoecker misses skeleton medal; 3 Brits in top 10". ESPN. Press Association. 14 February 2026. Archived from the original on 24 June 2026. Retrieved 24 June 2026.
  20. 1 2 Bull, Andy (15 February 2026). "Weston and Stoecker strike gold to cap GB's greatest day at Winter Olympics". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 16 February 2026. Retrieved 17 February 2026.
  21. ↑ Clifford, Flo (15 February 2026). "'Super Sunday' for Team GB as Weston and Stoecker win gold in skeleton". The Independent. Archived from the original on 19 March 2026. Retrieved 8 July 2026.
  22. ↑ Clark, Daniel (21 May 2026). "Olympic champions inducted into University of Bath Hall of Fame for Sport". Somerset Live. Reach. Archived from the original on 25 June 2026. Retrieved 25 June 2026.
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