Jaclyn Narracott: Everything you need to know about the Australian skeleton star

Jaclyn Narracott is on the brink of more history at the halfway stage of the women's skeleton at Beijing 2022.

No Australian slider has ever won a medal in skeleton at the Olympic Winter Games but Narracott leads a competitive field that includes Olympic and world medallists.

That follows her historic performance in St Moritz, Switzerland, in January when she became the first Australian to win a gold medal in the skeleton World Cup.

Narracott is competing at her second Winter Olympics following her debut at PyeongChang 2018 where she finished 16th.

Two clean, fast runs gave the 31-year-old a combined time of 2 minutes 4.34 seconds for a lead of just over two-tenths of a second over German pair Hannah Neise and world champion Tina Hermann.

Narracott told Olympics.com: “This field is ridiculously competitive, so to be sitting on top of it is phenomenal.

“It was always going to be a good race and I knew that if I could put down two runs where I was calm and composed, I was going to be in the mix. But that still doesn't make it any less exciting to be sitting number one."

Narracott's uncle Paul Narracott was the first Australian to compete at both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games.

He competed in the 100m and 200m on the track at Los Angeles 1984 before switching to the bobsleigh at Albertville 1992.

Uncle Paul's stories lit the flame of her Olympic dream and she was further inspired when she watched Sydney 2000 when she was nine.

"Having Uncle Paul as a role model and influence was massive in opening my eyes to what could be possible," she told abc.net.au

Narracott's Olympic debut came 34 years after her uncle made his own Games bow.

Narracott's dream when she was a child was to be Olympic champion.

Like her uncle,