Tabitha Stoecker

Tabitha Stoecker (born 24 November 2000) is a British skeleton racer. Partnering Matt Weston, she became an Olympic champion in the inaugural edition of the mixed team event at the 2026 Games in Milano-Cortina. She is a two-time IBSF World Championships 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 the junior European champion and won her first World Cup event. At both the 2024 and 2025 World Championships, she secured silver medals in the mixed team competition alongside Weston. Stoecker placed fifth in the women's skeleton at the 2026 Winter Olympics, before achieving victory in the mixed team event with Weston. In the 2025–26 season, she became a European Championships silver medallist and the overall World Cup bronze medallist in the women's individual competitions.

Life and career Tabitha Stoecker was born on 24 November 2000 in Highgate, London. She attended City of London School for Girls, 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. She later attended university in Cardiff.

Stoecker joined British Skeleton after participating in UK Sport's Discover Your Gold talent identification programme in 2019. When she found out she had been selected for skeleton, Stoecker did not know what the sport was, but decided to try it out. She continued her training in Bath, Somerset, Stoecker became the 2023 junior European champion at Igls. She placed second overall in that season's Europa Cup standings, recording two victories from six events to finish behind compatriot Freya Tarbit. At the 2023 IBSF World Championships, she finished 23rd. Stoecker represented Great Britain at the 2024 IBSF World Championships in Winterberg, placing fourth in the individual event, before winning a silver medal in the mixed team race with Matt Weston. The duo were 0.12 seconds behind the German pairing of Christopher Grotheer and Hannah Neise.

In the 2024–25 World Cup, Stoecker and Marcus Wyatt won the mixed team race in Altenberg. In March 2025, she competed at the IBSF World Championships in Lake Placid. Stoecker placed eighth in the women's race,

For the 2025–26 World Cup, Stoecker partnered with Wyatt in 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. She then won a silver medal in the individual competition in Lillehammer. She and Wyatt then claimed the gold medal with a track record time in the mixed team event at the same venue , 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 achieved by a British female slider since Lizzy Yarnold in 2015.

Stoecker was named to Great Britain's squad for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy. Competing in the women's skeleton at the Cortina Sliding Centre, she placed fifth after her opening two runs, with a 0.53 seconds deficit to the race leader. Stoecker lost additional time during her third run, but maintained fifth position following her fourth run, finishing 1.46 seconds slower than Austria's Janine Flock who secured gold. She then won gold with Weston in the inaugural mixed team event. Stoecker raced first, before Weston made up three tenths of a second as the British duo finished the event 0.17 seconds ahead of German pairing Axel Jungk and Susanne Kreher. Their combined time of 1:59.36 was a track record for the venue. Three months later, she became the youngest-ever inductee of the University of Bath Hall of Fame for Sport.

In August 2026, it was announced that Stoecker would appear as a contestant on the twenty-fourth series of Strictly Come Dancing.

Career results Olympic Games YearEvent Position RefRepresenting 2026 Milan CortinaWomen's skeleton 5th Mixed team World Championships

European Championships Year Event Location Position Ref 2026 Women's skeleton St Moritz 2nd World Cup victories Year Event Location Teammate Ref 2023–24 Women's skeleton La Plagne N/A 2024–25 Mixed team AltenbergMarcus Wyatt 2025–26 Mixed team Cortina Mixed team Lillehammer