Jaclyn Narracott has secured Australia’s fourth medal of a record Winter Olympics haul with the run of her life in the women’s skeleton event.

Born in Brisbane, the 31-year old claimed the country’s first ever medal in a sliding sport, claiming silver in one of the world’s most dangerous sports in a simply incredible effort.

Narracott headed into the second day of the event final as the leader, setting a track record time of 1:01:79 to leave Australians who stayed up to watch the action from Beijing cock-a-hoop.

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However, it wasn’t enough for gold, Germany’s Hannah Neise responding with a 1:04:44 to move narrowly clear of Narracott, though the Australian did enough to cling onto silver despite a stirring late challenge from Kimberly Bos.

Jaclyn Narracott, silver medallist ????

Australia’s first ever sliding sport medal and most prolific Olympic Winter Games in history.

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Narracott joins Jakara Anthony (gold), Scott James (silver) and Tess Coady (bronze) as Australian podium finishers at the 2022 Games, beating the previous best of three medals at each of the Vancouver, Sochi and PyeongChang Winter Olympics.

However, Salt Lake City and Vancouver remain our only Games to have won more than one gold medal.

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