winning five medals, GB has equalled its record best from both 2014 and 2018, Winter Olympics 2026

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Katie Falkingham

BBC Sport senior journalist in Livigno

If someone had told you 16 days ago that Team GB would win three gold medals at the Winter Olympics, would you have believed it?

Perhaps not - but it happened.

Tonight, flagbearers Matt Weston and Charlotte Bankes will lead Team GB into the closing ceremony in Verona as the curtains are drawn on a historic Games for the nation.

In winning five medals, GB has equalled its record best from both 2014 and 2018.

But it has been the nation's most successful Winter Olympics since the moment snowboarders Bankes and Huw Nightingale won the second of those golds in the mixed team snowboard cross.

Never before had Great Britain won more than one gold medal at a Winter Olympics. That fact has now been buried deep in the snow.

Weston kick-started the golden rush, withstanding the heavy pressure on his shoulders to win the men's skeleton title that was always his to lose.

On what has come to be known as 'Super Sunday', Bankes and Nightingale won Team GB's first Olympic gold medal on snow, a victory that was followed just a few hours later by Weston and Tabby Stoecker's mixed team success at the Cortina Sliding Centre.

On the penultimate night of competition, the men's curling team - skipped by Bruce Mouat - won their second successive Olympic silver, before freestyle skier Zoe Atkin wrapped up Team GB's Games the next day with bronze in the halfpipe.

"These Games have been amazing, and a history-making Games," Team GB chef de mission Eve Muirhead told BBC Sport.