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Wales' Laura Deas has won bronze in the women's skeleton in an historic day for Team GB at the Winter Olympics.

The 29-year-old from Wrexham won the medal alongside skeleton team-mate Lizzy Yarnold - who became the first Briton to defend a Winter Olympics title.

The women's efforts at the Pyeongchang Olympic Sliding Centre took Britain's medal count on Saturday to three following Izzy Atkin's ski slopestyle bronze.

It is the first time ever Britain have won three Winter Olympic medals in the same day, overtaking the record two from Chamonix in 1924.

And Britain have matched their record Winter Games medal tally of four with plenty of further opportunities to come.

(Image: Getty Images AsiaPac) (Image: Getty Images AsiaPac) (Image: Getty Images AsiaPac)

Laura Deas claimed her bronze by 0.02 seconds with a final run of 51.91.

She was pushed into third position after an average final run from Austrian Janine Flock who came in with 52.12.

Lizzy Yarnold successfully defended her Sochi 2014 gold - the first British winter olympian to do so - smashing her own track record in the process by two tenths of a second.

(Image: Getty Images AsiaPac)

Deas began her career in skeleton back in 2009 through the UK Sport talent programme, Girls4Gold.

This year marked her first appearance in a Winter Games having represented Great Britain at all three World Championships since Sochi.

She secured seventh in the 2015 World Championships, 11th in 2016 and 10th in 2017.