Lizzy Yarnold completes skeleton career grand slam

Yarnold completes career grand slam

Great Britain's Lizzy Yarnold has won gold at the Skeleton World Championships to complete the career grand slam of major titles.

The 26-year-old added the world crown to her Olympic, World Cup and European golds by setting a new track record at the German resort of Winterberg.

"World champion as well as Olympic champion and European champion, it's all I ever wanted," she told BBC Sport.

Having smashed the track record on Friday, Yarnold lowered it again in the last of her four runs to clinch victory in a combined time of 3:49.95.

She finished 0.67s ahead of Germany's Jacqueline Lolling, with Canada's Elisabeth Vathje completing the podium.

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