A former sprinter for Blackheath and Bromley Harriers athletics club beat the odds to win bronze as a skeleton racer in the Winter Olympics.

Dom Parsons was the first Brit to claim a medal at the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang as he overcame odds of 100-1 on Friday (February 16).

The 30-year-old is the first British man in 70 years to claim a skeleton medal.

Parsons used to run for Blackheath and Bromley Harriers as a schoolboy where he was a 400m runner. His best run was 50.51 seconds.

The skeleton racer switched sports in 2007 after his friend encouraged him to go to team trials at the University of Bath as he nursed a hangover.

After his final race in South Korea, where he started in third position, Parsons said: "It was a bit of a rollercoaster after the fourth run. I was devastated – I thought I’d binned it totally.

“I made a couple of mistakes down there that dropped me behind Nikita (Tregubov) and Martins (Dukurs), and, unfortunately for him, he made a couple of mistakes which cost him two spots.

“Before he went down he was the last person I would have expected to make those mistakes.

“I’m very grateful that I got lucky, and I’ve got to try to process what happened because it doesn’t seem real to me.”

It was Parsons first ever Olympic medal.

South Korea's Yun Sung-bin was the gold medal winner in the men's skeleton.