Meet Team GB’s quartet of skeleton sliders competing at Beijing 2022

A quartet of British skeleton sliders are tasked with carrying on Team GB’s record of winning at least one medal at each of the Olympic Winter Games since 2002. All but one of the seven have been claimed in the women's discipline, which includes three gold medals in consecutive Games.

The medal rush started with Alex Coomber who won bronze in the first skeleton event for women at the Winter Games. Shelley Rudman’s silver at Turin 2006 preceded Amy Williams' first-ever gold medal for Britain in the event, at Vancouver 2010. Lizzy Yarnold then won two consecutive gold medals at Sochi 2014 and PyeongChang 2018.

The bronze medallist four years ago was one Laura Deas, who is part of the team at Beijing 2022. Dom Parsons, who is now retired, got in on the act for the men with bronze in the Republic of Korea becoming the first British male skeleton athlete to win an Olympic medal in 70 years.

Alongside Deas at Beijing 2022 will be Olympic debutants Brogan Crowley who joins her compatriot in the women's event that starts Friday (11 February), with Matt Weston and Marcus Wyatt competing in the first two of four runs on Thursday (10 February). Meet the team below.

Age: 33Previous Olympic Winter Games: PyeongChang 2018 – bronze medallistBest result: See above!Current form: Finished 20th in the overall standings of the 2021/22 World Cup season with a best result of 14th on 31 December in Sigulda, Latvia.

Deas on being selected for Beijing 2022...

Deas is quite the sporty soul, having competed in eventing professionally before switching to skeleton. She also captained Wales in international tetrathlon competitions (modern pentathlon without fencing, so shooting, swimming, running and riding) and also represented North Wales at