Bree Walker, Australia's ever-consistent world-class sledder, has enjoyed her best performance of the European winter season, rocketing to a silver medal in the iconic World Cup monobob event at St Moritz.
On her second run on Friday, the brilliant Walker broke the track record on the celebrated hand-cut ice chute at the Swiss resort, her time of 1 minute 10.48 seconds putting her in the gold medal position with one athlete to come down.
But that athlete, celebrated veteran US pilot Elana Meyers Taylor, then held her nerve to lower the new record again (1:10.32) with the last run of the day to take her first ever monobob victory after 19 previous World Cup two-woman bob wins.
