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Tabitha Stoecker (born 24 November 2000) is a British skeleton racer. Partnering Matt Weston, she became an Olympic champion in the inaugural edition of the mixed team event at the 2026 Games in Milano-Cortina. She is a two-time IBSF World Championships silver medallist in the same event.

Stoecker joined British Skeleton in 2019 and began competing in the Europa Cup in 2021. In both 2022 and 2023, she finished runner-up at the Junior World Championships. In 2023, she became the junior European champion and won her first World Cup event. At both the 2024 and 2025 World Championships, she secured silver medals in the mixed team competition alongside Weston. Stoecker placed fifth in the women's skeleton at the 2026 Winter Olympics, before achieving victory in the mixed team event with Weston. In the 2025–26 season, she became a European Championships silver medallist and the overall World Cup bronze medallist in the women's individual competitions.

Life and career

Tabitha Stoecker was born on 24 November 2000 in Highgate, London. She attended City of London School for Girls, and was a British schools gymnastics champion. Around the age of 11, she attended an open day at the National Centre for Circus Arts in London. For the next six years, she trained in disciplines like the trapeze, clowning and juggling. She later attended university in Cardiff.

Stoecker joined British Skeleton after participating in UK Sport's Discover Your Gold talent identification programme in 2019. When she found out she had been selected for skeleton, Stoecker did not know what the sport was, but decided to try it out. She continued her training in Bath, Somerset, which is home to a push-start track, the only one of its type in the UK. Stoecker made her Europa Cup debut in 2021, and in both 2022 and 2023, she won the silver medal at the IBSF Junior World Championships. Stoecker became the 2023 junior European champion at Igls. She placed second overall in that season's Europa Cup standings, recording two victories from six events to finish behind compatriot Freya Tarbit. At the 2023 IBSF World Championships, she finished 23rd.

During the 2023–24 World Cup, Stoecker won her first World Cup race in her second ever start in the competition. Her win came at La Plagne, and marked the first time that a female British slider had won a World Cup event since Laura Deas eight years previously. She finished 0.07 seconds ahead of second-placed Mystique Ro. The following week, she finished third in a subsequent race in the series in Innsbruck. Stoecker represented Great Britain at the 2024 IBSF World Championships in Winterberg, placing fourth in the individual event, before winning a silver medal in the mixed team race with Matt Weston. The duo were 0.12 seconds behind the German pairing of Christopher Grotheer and Hannah Neise.

In the 2024–25 World Cup, Stoecker and Marcus Wyatt won the mixed team race in Altenberg. In March 2025, she competed at the IBSF World Championships in Lake Placid. Stoecker placed eighth in the women's race, but secured a silver medal partnering Weston in the mixed team event; they finished a tenth of a second behind USA's gold-medal winners Mystique Ro and Austin Florian.

For the 2025–26 World Cup, Stoecker partnered with Wyatt in the mixed team events, and the pair won the first leg of the series in Cortina. Stoecker also finished fifth in the women's event. She then won a silver medal in the individual competition in Lillehammer. She and Wyatt then claimed the gold medal with a track record time in the mixed team event at the same venue, before she won an individual silver in Sigulda. In January 2026, at the European Championships in St Moritz, Stoecker won the silver medal. With the championships doubling up as a World Cup race, she rose to fourth in the overall standings for the season. Later that month, Stoecker finished in sixth place in the individual event at the final round of the World Cup series in Altenberg. The result helped earn her an overall bronze medal for the series. Her medal was the first overall World Cup medal achieved by a British female slider since Lizzy Yarnold in 2015.

Stoecker was named to Great Britain's squad for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy. Competing in the women's skeleton at the Cortina Sliding Centre, she placed fifth after her opening two runs, with a 0.53 seconds deficit to the race leader. Stoecker lost additional time during her third run, but maintained fifth position following her fourth run, finishing 1.46 seconds slower than Austria's Janine Flock who secured gold. She then won gold with Weston in the inaugural mixed team event. Stoecker raced first, before Weston made up three tenths of a second as the British duo finished the event 0.17 seconds ahead of German pairing Axel Jungk and Susanne Kreher. Their combined time of 1:59.36 was a track record for the venue. Three months later, she became the youngest-ever inductee of the University of Bath Hall of Fame for Sport.

In August 2026, it was announced that Stoecker would appear as a contestant on the twenty-fourth series of Strictly Come Dancing. The following month, she was announced as a new addition to the cast of Gladiators, ahead of its fourth series in 2027.

Tabitha Stoecker at Team GB

Tabitha Stoecker at Milano Cortina 2026

Tabitha Stoecker at Olympics.com