British Skeleton picked up a clean sweep of awards at the Team GB Ball in London ©Team GB

Double Olympic champion Lizzy Yarnold and the rest of the Great Britain skeleton squad collected a clean sweep of awards at the 2018 Team GB Ball in London.

The event, which took place at London’s Royal Horticultural Halls, was a gathering of athletes from both the Summer and Winter Olympics and recognised the "record breaking" achievements of the Pyeongchang 2018 team.

Great Britain won a record of five Olympic medals at the 2018 Games, with that achievement reflected on the night.

Yarnold, winner of the women’s skeleton gold at Pyeongchang 2018 to defend her title from Sochi four years earlier, was voted by her fellow athletes as winner of the Olympians’ Olympian Award.

The two-time champion was then on stage again later in the night alongside her team-mate Deas, as the pair won the Great Britain’s Choice Award.

The winners of that award are chosen by the public to highlight the "most inspirational moment" from the Games.

Afterwards Yarnold described the awards as "super special".

"Being an Olympian was my childhood dream," she said.

"It took me until I was 18 to find a sport where I was able to do that but then to go to Sochi and then to Pyeongchang to live out that dream is something so extraordinary it’s hard to get my head around."

The outstanding success of Britain's skeleton team at Pyeongchang 2018, where they won three medals, including a second consecutive Olympic gold for Lizzy Yarnold was recognised during the Team GB Ball ©Team GB
The outstanding success of Britain's skeleton team at Pyeongchang 2018, where they won three medals, including a second consecutive Olympic gold for Lizzy Yarnold was recognised during the Team GB Ball ©Team GB

Deas, meanwhile, claimed getting the chance to relive the highs from Pyeongchang again was "amazing".

"To win the award voted for by the British public is just amazing and to know that they felt it was as inspirational as we felt it was incredible is fantastic," she said.

"I’m just so happy that people felt able to connect with that as the story was unfolding."

Andi Schmid, the performance director at British Skeleton for 17 years before he stepped down in August, collected the Coach of the Year award after skeleton picked up three of Great Britain’s five medals at the Games.

In his time as performance director, the Austrian oversaw five consecutive medal-winning Olympic Winter Games for Team GB which yielded seven medals.

"For Pyeongchang, the whole preparation came together during the Games," he said.

"What was amazing was how we did our homework so well and the other nations started to struggle.

"The medal from Dominic [Parsons] was very special, not only because it was the first male medal we had won in many years at the Olympics but it also was a great push for the rest of the team and the two girls."