British slider Amy Williams wins Olympic skeleton gold
Williams sets course record on third run
Amy Williams won Britain's first solo Winter Olympics gold medal for 30 years with victory in the women's skeleton.The Bath slider, 27, broke her own track record on the way to Team GB's first medal of the Vancouver Games in a time of three minutes 35.64 seconds.
German Kerstin Szymkowiak was 0.56 seconds behind in silver with her team-mate Anja Huber taking bronze, while GB's Shelley Rudman finished sixth.
Skater Robin Cousins won GB's last solo gold in the men's ice dancing in 1980.
Williams' gold continues a fine run of British skeleton sliding since the sport was reintroduced to the Winter Olympics at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games.
Alex Coomber won bronze eight years ago, while Rudman secured silver in Turin in 2006.
via news.bbc.co.uk
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