Matt Weston (skeleton racer)

Matthew Weston (born 2 March 1997) is an English skeleton racer. He is a double Olympic, World and European champion and has won the overall World Cup title on three occasions. Alongside Lizzy Yarnold, Weston is Great Britain's most decorated athlete in Winter Olympic history.

During his youth, Weston competed in taekwondo and rugby before switching to skeleton in 2017 following his participation in UK Sport's Discover your Gold programme. He won his first World Cup event in 2021 and finished in 15th position at the 2022 Winter Olympics. In January 2023, he became the European champion and later the same month, won his first world title, becoming the second British man to be crowned world skeleton champion. He won successive overall World Cup titles in 2023–24 and 2024–25, and in 2025, he won the World Championships to become the first Briton to be a two-time world skeleton champion. In 2026, he became the European champion for the second time as well as winning his third overall World Cup title.

Weston won gold in the men's skeleton at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano-Cortina. This made him the third Briton, after Amy Williams and Lizzy Yarnold, to win Olympic gold in skeleton. He then won the mixed team event with Tabitha Stoecker and in doing so became the first man to win two Olympic gold medals in skeleton. Weston's successes at the 2026 Games also made him the first British athlete to win more than one gold medal during the same Winter Olympics as well as the first British male athlete to win a gold medal at a Winter Olympics since ice dancer Christopher Dean in 1984. He also became the first British man to win a gold medal in an individual event in any sport at a Winter Olympics since figure skater Robin Cousins in 1980.