Chilly weather Olympics: Immense Britain’s Dom Parsons wins skeleton bronze medal in Pyeongchang

Dom Parsons received Immense Britain’s first medal of the 2018 Chilly weather Olympics with bronze in the men’s skeleton.

After a dramatic final straggle, Parsons done zero.Eleven seconds sooner than fourth-placed Martins Dukurs with a mixed time of three minutes 22.20 seconds.

Parsons, 30, looked to grasp misplaced out on a medal except world champion Dukurs made errors on his final straggle.

South Korea’s Yun Sung-bin received gold by a file 1.63secs and Nikita Tregubov, an Olympic Athlete from Russia, silver.

Briton Jerry Rice, 27, done tenth in three:24.24.

« It hasn’t in actuality sunk in yet, » Parsons told BBC Sport. « I believed I may maybe misplaced it after that fourth straggle. It felt devour it’d had long gone.

« However Martins Dukurs has made some more errors and he’s the final person I may maybe demand that from.

« It has been huge. The total work now we grasp save apart in has paid off. »

Britain grasp received a medal every time skeleton has featured on the Chilly weather Olympics, but Parsons is Britain’s first men’s skeleton medal since John Crammond in 1948.

Parsons, who done tenth in Sochi four years prior to now and has done on the rostrum in the World Cup only once, changed into not among the many major British medal contenders before the Games.

« Dom’s purpose changed into to win a medal. No-one belief that changed into skill, but he’s loved this observe from the 2d these Games began, » mentioned Amy Williams, Britain’s Olympic skeleton champion in 2010.

Britain’s dramatic first medal

Parsons changed into fourth after the first two runs on Thursday, and save apart in his quickest time of the competition – 50.33secs – to accelerate into 1/three after the 1/three straggle on Friday.

After posting 50.Sixty one in the final straggle, a dissatisfied Parsons sat in silver medal convey – zero.02 on the again of Tregubov – with only Dukurs and Yun to advance, and anticipated to push him into fourth.

On the other hand, a Parsons medal changed into confirmed when Dukurs, who has received eight World Cup titles and 5 World Championships, made errors on his final straggle and slipped from 2d after three runs to fourth in the final standings.

Yun eased to victory by the largest margin in men’s skeleton history.

Who is Dom Parsons?

BBC Sport’s Caroline Chapman in Pyeongchang

Dom Parsons is a self-confessed lumber-geek and is nicknamed ‘the wizard’.

Love many diverse sliders, Parsons began out as a 400m runner and switched to skeleton in 2008.

Parsons not only is conscious of straightforward how to flee on a sled but he makes them, too. He is been working on a PhD in mechanical engineering since 2013 on the College of Bathtub and has helped salvage the skeleton instruments.

Parsons is furthermore a huge Formula 1 fan and, if he wasn’t a slider, he says being an F1 driver may maybe be his dream job and his hero is Ayrton Senna.

The London-born athlete got right here into Pyeongchang having done joint-fourth in St Mortiz – his current observe – in the penultimate World Cup flee of the campaign.

Different info on day seven

• Two Swiss athletes grew to become the first opponents to be hit by an outbreak of norovirus on the Games.
• The IOC has defended its resolution to send home Adam Pengilly from the Chilly weather Games after an incident with a security officer. Pengilly is a British IOC member.

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