NOTTINGHAM short track speed skater Jack Burrows made history by becoming Britain's first gold-medal winner at the inaugural Winter Youth Olympics – and he couldn't hide his delight about it.

Burrows topped the podium in the mixed team 3,000m relay in Innsbruck as a quartet composed of himself, Korea's Jung Hyun Park and the Chinese pair of Xiucheng Lu and Aili Xu scorched home in a time of 4:21.713minutes.

The mixed team relay combined skaters from different countries in Austria in an attempt to encourage interaction between nations – and it clearly favoured Burrows as he came out on top.

And Burrows admitted that, while the language barrier between him and his team-mates had proved troublesome to start off with, modern technology had come to his rescue to great effect.

"Winning gold means so much to me, I can go home and be able to look at it, train even harder and use it as motivation now," said Burrows, who finished seventh and 15th in the individual 500m and 1,000m respectively.

"I had a translator program on my laptop which really helped us in training to communicate but to be honest it wasn't all that hard.

"We managed to get in front and then held on for the medal. It's all about skating as hard as you could for your lap-and-a-half and we did that four times each.

"I learnt a lot from the individual racing about how to skate at this level. My overtaking improved a lot and now for future competitions I know I have to be even better."

Burrows wasn't the only success story however as fellow Brit and training partner Aydin Djemal was part of the team that scooped silver in the same race.

Meanwhile fellow Nottingham athlete Edward Carstairs rounded off his Winter Youth Olympic campaign with a solid fifth-place finish in the mixed team ice dance competition.

Carstairs and partner Millie Paterson ended up eighth after their free routine, good enough to put their team fifth overall with the 17-year-old admitting it had been a fantastic experience.

"We were pleased with another personal best score and we definitely skated better than last time," said Carstairs.

"We corrected a few things from earlier in the week and it is good to be constantly improving competition on competition.

"This is only our third competition together as a pair but so far we have improved every time which is really good."

The pair were 11th in the ice dance.

An overall score of 71.05 from their short and free routines was made all the more impressive considering the music cut out for a few seconds halfway through their free routine.

"These things happen at competitions, you've just got to get on with it. We train enough without the music so you tend to know how to carry on," he said.

"I think it went well. It could have been better in a few places on the technical stuff but overall we're pleased. It's been a fantastic experience here at the games."

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