Carrick-Smith makes it three in historic Youth Olympic Games

16-year-old adds Slalom gold to Giant Slalom silver and Combined Gold

Zak Carrick-Smith continued to rewrite the history books in Gangwon with a record-breaking third medal as he took Gold in the Men’s Slalom event.

Having won Britain’s first ever Alpine medal at an Olympic event with Gold in the Alpine Combined, Carrick-Smith went on to add Silver in Giant Slalom before his victory in this morning’s Slalom contest.

In third position at the end of the first run, Carrick-Smith delivered a blistering second run to take victory by a margin of 0.05s from Sweden’s Elliot Westlund, with France’s Nash Huot-Marchand in bronze.

Elsewhere at the Games, Molly Butler secured Britain’s best result in women’s Alpine in 50 years at an Olympic event with tenth place in the women’s Giant Slalom alongside 12th spot in Slalom, and 16th in Alpine Combined. Axel Rose Green and Jake Dade secured the best ever British result in Mixed Ski Cross with sixth place, and Teiva Hamaini finished 14th in Freestyle Snowboard Slopestyle.