History repeated itself today when Kent's Lizzy Yarnold won gold medal at the same venue she secured the Olympic title last year.

The West Kingsdown athlete was victorious at world cup in the Sanki Sliding Centre in Sochi - a year to the day after her famous win in the Winter games.

Yarnold’sfirst run of 57.94 was just 0.03 seconds off her own track record and put her 0.45 seconds ahead of Germany’s Tina Hermann at the halfway point in the event.

The 26-year old then produced a solid second run of 58.63 to take gold - her fifth of the season - by just four hundredths ahead of Russia’s Maria Orlova, who had produced a scorching second run time to win silver.

Following the race, Yarnold said: ”I do love this track and I’ve done quite a lot of runs here as we did 40 before the Olympics, and even though I made a lot of mistakes I’m just able to relax and enjoy the track.

“I knew it would be a close race - I’m glad I gave everyone a heart attack - but what a good competition between all three of us (on the podium) and big congratulations to Janine who won the overall World Cup title, she deserves it”.