Tabitha Stoecker

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Tabitha Stoecker
Personal information
Nickname
Tabby
Born (2000-11-24) 24 November 2000 (age 25)
Highgate, London [1]
Height5 ft 7 in (170 cm)
Weight61 kg (134 lb)
Sport
CountryGreat Britain
Sport Skeleton
Medal record
Women's skeleton
Representing Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2024 Winterberg Mixed team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2025 Lake Placid Mixed team
European Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2026 St. Moritz Women

Tabitha Stoecker (born 24 November 2000) is a British skeleton racer. She is a two-time World Championship silver medallist in the mixed team event.

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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 junior European champion and won her first senior-level World Cup event. At both the 2024 and 2025 World Championships, she secured silver medals in the mixed team competition alongside Matt Weston.

Early life

Stoecker was a British schools gymnastics champion. [2]

Career

Stoecker joined British Skeleton after participating in the Discover Your Gold talent identification programme in 2019. She made her Europa Cup debut in 2021, finishing seventh. [1] In January 2022, she won a silver medal at the World Junior Championships, [3] and in February 2023, she won a second World Junior silver medal in Winterberg. [4] Later that month, she became junior European champion at Igls, and finished second overall in the Europa Cup standings. [5]

In the 2023–24 World Cup, Stoecker won her first World Cup event in her second ever start in the competition. Her win came at La Plagne, and marked the first time for eight years that a female British slider had won a World Cup event. [2] The following week, she finished third in another World Cup event in Innsbruck. [6] She represented Great Britain at the IBSF World Championships in 2024 and won a silver medal in the mixed team event, along with Matt Weston. [7] [8]

In the 2024–25 World Cup, Stoecker and Marcus Wyatt won the event in Altenberg. [9] In March 2025, she competed at the World Championships and won a silver medal in the mixed team event, along with Weston, finishing a tenth of a second behind gold medal winners Mystique Ro and Austin Florian. [10] [11]

In the 2025–26 World Cup, Stoecker paired up with Marcus Wyatt to enter 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. [12] She then won a silver medal in the individual competition in Lillehammer. [13] She and Wyatt then claimed the gold medal in the mixed team at Lillehammer, [13] before she won an individual silver in Sigulda. [14] In January 2026, at the European Championships in St Moritz, Stoecker won the silver medal. [15]

World Cup victories

YearEventLocationTeammateRef
2023–24 Women's skeleton Flag of France.svg La Plagne N/A [2]
2024–25 Mixed team Flag of Germany.svg Altenberg Marcus Wyatt [9]
2025–26 Mixed team Flag of Italy.svg Cortina [12]
Mixed team Flag of Norway.svg Lillehammer [13]

References

  1. 1 2 "Tabby Stoecker". BBSA. Archived from the original on 18 March 2025. Retrieved 3 January 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 "Tabby Stoecker wins Skeleton World Cup gold on second start". BBC Sport . 8 December 2023. Archived from the original on 14 January 2025. Retrieved 2 January 2026.
  3. ↑ "Silver for Stoecker at Junior Worlds". BBSA. 21 January 2022. Archived from the original on 15 January 2025. Retrieved 3 January 2026.
  4. ↑ Green, Peter (14 February 2023). "Pain no barrier as Freya lands skeleton medal". Derby Telegraph . Retrieved 3 January 2026.
  5. ↑ "Triple triumph for Tarbit & Stoecker". BBSA . 17 February 2023. Archived from the original on 15 January 2025. Retrieved 3 January 2026.
  6. ↑ "Skeleton athlete Kimberley Bos wins the BMW IBSF World Cup in Innsbruck". IBSF. 15 December 2023. Archived from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 3 January 2026.
  7. ↑ "Featured: GB win silver in skeleton team race". BBSA. 1 March 2024. Archived from the original on 25 March 2025. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
  8. ↑ "Olympic Champions Neise and Grotheer win Skeleton Mixed World Championships 2024". IBSF. 24 February 2024. Archived from the original on 8 March 2024. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
  9. 1 2 "GB's Stoecker & Wyatt win mixed skeleton gold". BBC Sport . 7 December 2024. Archived from the original on 9 December 2024. Retrieved 2 January 2026.
  10. ↑ "Weston and Stoecker win silver at skeleton Worlds". BBC Sport . 9 March 2025. Archived from the original on 9 March 2025. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
  11. ↑ Rhodes, Matthew (9 March 2025). "Matt Weston And Tabitha Stoecker Secure Mixed Team Silver Medal". MSN . Retrieved 10 March 2025.
  12. 1 2 "GB clinch two skeleton golds in World Cup opener". BBC Sport . 22 November 2025. Archived from the original on 1 January 2026. Retrieved 2 January 2026.
  13. 1 2 3 Collins, Ben (12 December 2025). "GB's Weston wins second straight skeleton World Cup gold". BBC Sport . Archived from the original on 2 January 2026. Retrieved 2 January 2026.
  14. ↑ "IBSF World Cup Sigulda 18.12.2025". IBSF. 18 December 2025. Retrieved 2 January 2026.
  15. ↑ Cowen, Ailsa (9 January 2026). "Weston wins gold as Stoecker takes silver in St Moritz". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on 10 January 2026. Retrieved 10 January 2026.


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