Day Six saw mixed success for GB with the curlers both securing wins, Eve Muirhead's rink winning 8-7 against China after an extra end having lost earlier in the day with a 7-4 defeat to the USA. The men secured a final stone 6-5 win over Japan while GB interest in the Men's Skeleton saw Dom Parsons sitting fourth and Jerry Rice 12th after the first two runs.
Medal wise, GB still await their first but day six began with Aksel Lund Svindal (NOR) becoming the oldest Olympic alpine skiing champion at 35 with compatriot Kjetil Jansrud taking silver and Beat Feuz (SWI) collecting bronze. The Women's Giant Slalom saw Mikaela Shiffrin (USA) win gold ahead of Ragnhild Mowinckel (NOR) who took silver and Federica Brignone (ITA).
A perfect shooting record saw a surprise in the Women's 15km Individual Biathlon as Hanna Oberg (SWE) won gold, Anastasiya Kuzmina took silver while Laura Dahlmeier (GER) added to her two golds at the games with bronze. GB's Amanda Lightfoot finishing 73rd out of 87.
Success for Norway on the slopes saw Johannes Thingnes Bo claim gold in the Men's Olympic 20km Individual Biathlon with Jakov Fak (SVN) taking silver and Dominik Landertinger (AUT) collecting bronze while in the Women's Cross-country Skiing 10km Freestyle, Ragnhild Haga took gold ahead of Charlotte Kalla (SWE) who collected silver with the bronze shared between Marit Bjoergen (NOR) and Krista Parmakoski (FIN).
A new world record in the Pairs Figure Skating as German duo Aljona Savchenko/Bruno Massot broke their own record to claim the gold, the title being Savchenko's first in her fifth games with Sui Wenjing/Han Cong (CHN) earning silver while Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford (CAN) collecting bronze.
Medal wise, GB still await their first but day six began with Aksel Lund Svindal (NOR) becoming the oldest Olympic alpine skiing champion at 35 with compatriot Kjetil Jansrud taking silver and Beat Feuz (SWI) collecting bronze. The Women's Giant Slalom saw Mikaela Shiffrin (USA) win gold ahead of Ragnhild Mowinckel (NOR) who took silver and Federica Brignone (ITA).
A perfect shooting record saw a surprise in the Women's 15km Individual Biathlon as Hanna Oberg (SWE) won gold, Anastasiya Kuzmina took silver while Laura Dahlmeier (GER) added to her two golds at the games with bronze. GB's Amanda Lightfoot finishing 73rd out of 87.
Success for Norway on the slopes saw Johannes Thingnes Bo claim gold in the Men's Olympic 20km Individual Biathlon with Jakov Fak (SVN) taking silver and Dominik Landertinger (AUT) collecting bronze while in the Women's Cross-country Skiing 10km Freestyle, Ragnhild Haga took gold ahead of Charlotte Kalla (SWE) who collected silver with the bronze shared between Marit Bjoergen (NOR) and Krista Parmakoski (FIN).
A new world record in the Pairs Figure Skating as German duo Aljona Savchenko/Bruno Massot broke their own record to claim the gold, the title being Savchenko's first in her fifth games with Sui Wenjing/Han Cong (CHN) earning silver while Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford (CAN) collecting bronze.
Germany continued to excel in the Luge as they defended their Luge Relay title with Canada claiming silver and Austria collecting bronze. Pierre Vaultier (FRA) defended his Snowboard Cross title ahead of Jarryd Hughes (AUS) who took silver and Regino Hernandez (SPA) who collected bronze. Two games records fell in the Men's 10000m Speed Skating as Ted-Jan Bloeman (CAN) took gold ahead of Jorrit Bergsma (NED) who earned silver and Nicola Tumolero (ITA) who collected bronze.
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