Laura Deas wins bronze at the Skeleton World Cup event in St Moritz
Saturday 24 January 2015 20:18, UK
Britain's Laura Deas scooped her second Skeleton World Cup podium finish in the last month with a bronze medal run at St Moritz.
Deas – British Skeleton’s only Welsh slider – finished 0.24 seconds behind winner Janine Flock from Austria. Canada's Elisabeth Vathje took the silver medal.
Olympic skeleton champion Lizzy Yarnold took sixth place with fellow Brit Rose McGrandle finishing in eleventh position.
Wrexham-born Deas could not disguise her delight at finishing on the podium after an impressive pair of runs at the historic St Moritz course.
"I've had a really good training week and I've just been really enjoying the track," she said.
"It’s been an amazing place to slide and it's been a long time since I was last here so I was just trying to get back into it and feel what was going on.
"I managed to do that and it’s been a great week."
Deas, 25, won her first Skeleton World Cup medal in the second event of the season at Calgary in December.
In the men's event Londoner Dominic Parsons slipped down to fourth place after finishing the first run in third position.
Olympic champion Martins Dukurs of Latvia won the race ahead of Sungbin Yun of South Korea, with Russia's Nikita Tregybov pipping Parsons.
