4-man ends Whistler Worlds

The 4-man bobsleigh brought the curtain down on the 2019 World Championships in Whistler in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The 10-day event had early featured 2-man and Women’s bobsleigh, a team competition and both men’s and women’s skeleton before the 4-man race took place over the final two evenings of action.

Lamin Deen and Brad Hall piloted British sleds in a 23-strong field that had initially been anticipated to be even bigger before tricky track conditions a reduction from the more than 30 expected to race at the start of the week.

Hall again joined forces with Nick Gleeson a week after the pair equalled the country’s top 2-man World Championship finish for 53 years when they came joint fourth in a season’s best showing.

Double Olympians Joel Fearon and Ben Simons completed Hall’s crew, with Deen teaming up with Ryan Letts, Tremayne Gilling and Toby Olubi.

The British teams sat 12^thand 15^that the halfway mark on Saturday morning before Hall’s crew finished 13^thand Deen’s 15^thin the final standings.

Hall clocked a combined time of 3 minutes 23.66 seconds with a quickest run of 50.64 seconds, while Deen completed the four runs in 3 minutes 24.05.

Germany’s Francesco Friedrich added the 4-man title to the 2-man crown he won last weekend, with Latvia’s Oskars Kibermanis and home favourite Justin Kripps the other medalists once more.