Bermudian Winter Olympian Patrick Singleton has achieved his goal for the winter season ? and in some style.

Singleton not only qualified for the World Championships in Calgary over the weekend but picked up two medals on the way.

Under the same qualification criteria to be used for next year?s Olympics in Torino, Italy, Singleton easily booked his place in this season?s skeleton finale, finishing fourth in a top class field.

?I am about to break down the door,? said Singleton, who was 0.04 seconds outside a podium place after the first of two days of competition in Konigsee, Germany. ?I have been knocking on it for a while now and things are really starting to happen.

?I am very happy with my result. Of course, I would have loved to have won but there will be many many more chances for another victory.

?With this result I qualified for the World Championships against a world class field and this was the only goal that I worked towards for the past year.?

The Challenge Cup is a cauldron of pressure with team spots in the World Cup available as well as the individual places for the world championships. The New Zealander who won the competition is a hot favourite for world glory this weekend in Calgary, making Singleton?s fourth place all the more memorable.

The Bermudian, who is increasingly attracting the attention of international sponsors with his outstanding performances, was third after the opening race of the competition and was frustrated to slip off the podium.

But in a sport where medals are awarded down to sixth place, Singleton was still left with a couple of mementoes to hang round his neck after two days of top-class sliding.

?I have achieved what I wanted to for this season,? said Singleton, who has won two minor competitions this season ? his first victories in the sport.

?To be honest, I have no expectations now for the World Championships.

?It is not a track I have spent a lot of time on and I am going up against competitors who have been training there for longer and who are not jet-lagged.

?I have come a long way this season and I am pleased with what I have achieved.

?The qualifying regulations are the same for this as they will be for the Olympics next year ? so if I can have another season like this then I will be going to Torino.?

Once the Worlds ? the final competition of the season ? are over, Singleton is hoping to head back to the Olympic track for more practice runs. But the availability of the increasingly controversial course is in doubt with more than a dozen luge or skeleton athletes having ended up in hospital since it opened.