Tabitha Stoecker

Tabitha Stoecker
Personal information
Nickname
Tabby
Born (2000-11-24) 24 November 2000 (age 25)
Highgate, London[1]
Height5 ft 7 in (170 cm)
Weight61 kg (134 lb)
Sport
CountryGreat Britain
SportSkeleton
Medal record
Skeleton
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2026 Milano Cortina Mixed team
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2024 Winterberg Mixed team
Silver medal – second place 2025 Lake Placid Mixed team
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 2026 St. Moritz Women

Tabitha Stoecker (born 24 November 2000) is a British skeleton racer. She is the 2026 Olympic champion in the mixed team event with Matt Weston, and a two-time World Championship 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 junior European champion and won her first senior-level World Cup event. At both the 2024 and 2025 World Championships, she secured silver medals in the mixed team competition alongside Weston. At the 2026 Winter Olympics, she won a gold medal in the mixed team competition again partnering Weston.

Early life

Stoecker 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]

Career

Stoecker joined British Skeleton after participating in the Discover Your Gold talent identification programme in 2019. She made her Europa Cup debut in 2021, finishing seventh.[1] In January 2022, she won a silver medal at the World Junior Championships,[4] and in February 2023, she won a second World Junior silver medal in Winterberg.[5] Later that month, she became junior European champion at Igls, and finished second overall in the Europa Cup standings.[6]

In the 2023–24 World Cup, Stoecker won her first World Cup event in her second ever start in the competition. Her win came at La Plagne, and marked the first time for eight years that a female British slider had won a World Cup event.[2] The following week, she finished third in another World Cup event in Innsbruck.[7] She represented Great Britain at the IBSF World Championships in 2024 and won a silver medal in the mixed team event, along with Matt Weston.[8][9]

In the 2024–25 World Cup, Stoecker and Marcus Wyatt won the event in Altenberg.[10] In March 2025, she competed at the World Championships and won a silver medal in the mixed team event, along with Weston, finishing a tenth of a second behind gold medal winners Mystique Ro and Austin Florian.[11][12]

In the 2025–26 World Cup, Stoecker paired up with Marcus Wyatt to enter 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.[13] She then won a silver medal in the individual competition in Lillehammer.[14] She and Wyatt then claimed the gold medal in the mixed team at Lillehammer,[14] before she won an individual silver in Sigulda.[15] In January 2026, at the European Championships in St Moritz, Stoecker won the silver medal.[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 earned by a British female slider since Lizzy Yarnold in 2015.[17]

In January 2026, she was named to Great Britain's squad for the 2026 Winter Olympics.[18] On 14 February 2026, she finished fifth in the women's skeleton with an overall time of 3:50:48, but then won gold with Matt Weston in the mixed team event.[19][20] The duo finished 0.17 seconds ahead of German pairing Axel Jungk and Susanne Kreher.[21]

Career results

Olympic Games

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 Cup victories

Year Event Location Teammate Ref
2023–24 Women's skeleton France La Plagne N/A [2]
2024–25 Mixed team Germany Altenberg Marcus Wyatt [10]
2025–26 Mixed team Italy Cortina [13]
Mixed team Norway Lillehammer [14]

References

  1. ^ a b "Tabby Stoecker". BBSA. Archived from the original on 18 March 2025. Retrieved 3 January 2026.
  2. ^ a b c "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. Retrieved 25 January 2026.
  4. ^ "Silver for Stoecker at Junior Worlds". BBSA. 21 January 2022. Archived from the original on 15 January 2025. Retrieved 3 January 2026.
  5. ^ Green, Peter (14 February 2023). "Pain no barrier as Freya lands skeleton medal". Derby Telegraph. Retrieved 3 January 2026.
  6. ^ "Triple triumph for Tarbit & Stoecker". BBSA. 17 February 2023. Archived from the original on 15 January 2025. Retrieved 3 January 2026.
  7. ^ "Skeleton athlete Kimberley Bos wins the BMW IBSF World Cup in Innsbruck". IBSF. 15 December 2023. Archived from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 3 January 2026.
  8. ^ "Featured: GB win silver in skeleton team race". BBSA. 1 March 2024. Archived from the original on 25 March 2025. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
  9. ^ "Olympic Champions Neise and Grotheer win Skeleton Mixed World Championships 2024". IBSF. 24 February 2024. Archived from the original on 8 March 2024. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
  10. ^ a b "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.
  11. ^ "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.
  12. ^ Rhodes, Matthew (9 March 2025). "Matt Weston And Tabitha Stoecker Secure Mixed Team Silver Medal". MSN. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
  13. ^ a b "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.
  14. ^ a b c 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.
  15. ^ "IBSF World Cup Sigulda 18.12.2025". IBSF. 18 December 2025. Retrieved 2 January 2026.
  16. ^ 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. ^ a b Anita, Chambers (14 February 2026). "Tabby Stoecker unable to emulate Matt Weston as she misses out on skeleton medal". SomersetLive. Archived from the original on 15 February 2026. Retrieved 14 February 2026.
  20. ^ a b "Stoecker Tabitha / Weston Matt - Olympic Skeleton | Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics". Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics. Retrieved 15 February 2026.
  21. ^ 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.
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