08/07/2026
🗓️ 25/26 Skeleton Season Summary 🧊
2026 saw the Royal Navy Skeleton Team and Inter Service Ice Championships return to Lillehammer, Norway for the 2nd year running.
The needs of the Service ran heavily this year resulting in a smaller team than usual but thankfully, returning members were already well versed with the challenging track. As always, several new members were selected to join the team from grassroots and steadily progressed in the sport over the first few days.
The main highlight this year was the introduction of Brogan Crowley (competed for GB in Beijing 2022) who came to coach the team. With her new style of coaching, insights, and wealth of recent sliding experience, she was absolutely invaluable.
Each track has at least one ‘problem child’ corner and Lillehammer’s, ironically, is bend 13. Regardless of the fantastic coaching, all but a few athletes suffered heavy bruises and a few brief visits to A&E but this never halted the team’s determination to give it everything in the IS race.
After 2 days of competition the very experienced RAF teams swept first place in the men’s and women’s races. The RN women came second ahead of some very worthy Army competitors, and the men came in third by default due to having only three athletes. 🏅
The off-season once again sees the team coordinating grassroots events at the University of Bath – the aim of which will be to select new recruits for the 2027 Ice Championships in Igls, Austria. 🇦🇹
