Defending champion Lizzy Yarnold was fastest on the fourth run of skeleton training at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang on Tuesday – after Great Britain team-mate Laura Deas set the quickest time on the third run.
Deas finished second and first on the first two training runs on Monday, when Sochi 2014 gold medallist Yarnold was third and fourth quickest at the Olympic Sliding Centre in Alpensia.
The Britons’ results bode well for the four-run competition which begins on Friday and concludes on Saturday.
Roles were reversed on the fourth run, as Yarnold clocked 52.05, 0.20 better than Germany’s Anna Fernstaedt. Deas was 0.69 back in seventh.
Sliders may tinker with equipment and priorities in training – some may start at full tilt, while others will not – and there is a further day of preparation on Wednesday.
Deas, a 29-year-old from Wrexham, claimed her first World Cup win in November 2015 and was fourth at the 2017 World Championships.
British sliders have won the last two women’s skeleton titles, with Yarnold succeeding 2010 winner Amy Williams as champion.
Shelley Rudman won Olympic silver in Turin, while Alex Coomber took bronze in Salt Lake City four years earlier.
