Neise takes skeleton gold for Germany as Jaclyn Narracott claims historic silver

Jaclyn Narracott celebrates winning the silver medal in the women's skeleton – Australia’s first skeleton medal at the Winter Games. Photograph: Dmitri Lovetsky/AP

Jaclyn Narracott broke the track record in the women’s skeleton in Beijing on the way to taking the silver medal, Australia’s first in the skeleton at the Winter Olympics.

Hannah Neise maintained Germany’s perfect record at the Yanqing National Sliding Centre with the gold medal, ultimately sliding 0.62sec faster than Narracott, with a total time of 4min 07.62sec. Kimberley Bos of the Netherlands won bronze.