4-man team win World Champs bronze
Great Britain are celebrating just a second 4-man bobsleigh World Championship medal since the Second World War after Brad Hall, Arran Gulliver, Taylor Lawrence and Greg Cackett won bronze in Lake Placid.
After waiting 84 years for a 4-man medal, Hall and his crew made the podium for the second time in three seasons, adding bronze to their silver from St Moritz in 2023.
Hall and co clocked a 3-run time of 2 minutes 45 seconds in the US to finish 0.64 seconds clear of home favourite Frankie Del Duca in fourth, 0.7 seconds ahead of Germany’s Adam Ammour in fifth and 1.26 seconds clear of Switzerland’s Michael Vogt in sixth.
In doing so, they prevented another German clean sweep of the men’s bobsleigh medals after the sport’s dominant nation won gold, silver and bronze in the 2-man event six days ago having also won all six 2-man and 4-man medals at the 2024 Worlds in Winterberg.
They came frustrating close to silver, eventually finishing 0.2 seconds behind Johannes Lochner after yesterday’s second run was cancelled after it was completed when GB had opened up more than a second lead over Lochner’s team.
The decision to abolish the results from the second run (in which the Brits were quickest) came after an appeal was lodged by the German federation citing apparent runner damage to Lochner’s sled, with the race jury initially ruling that Lochner should get a rerun before instead deciding to cancel the entire completed heat due to ‘track conditions’.
The British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association lodged an official protest but that was dismissed, meaning the results from Run 2 remained wiped from the standings, giving Lochner a 0.02 second lead over Hall heading into today’s final two heats.
That gap remained the same following the third run before Lochner moved clear in Run 4 to secure silver behind compatriot Francesco Friedrich.
Friedrich’s time of 2.44.52 secured his seventh successive 4-man title a week after he won his ninth 2-man crown at the same track.
Today’s result caps a remarkable season for the British team, with Hall leading his crew to 2-man, 4-man and combined bronze Overall World Cup medals just a year out from the Olympic Winter Games in Milan Cortina.
Gulliver, Lawrence and Cackett join David Green, Charles Looker, Byran Black and Robin Dixon as the only GB push athletes to have won multiple World Championship medals in any discipline.
With Matt Weston and Marcus Wyatt winning men’s skeleton gold and silver and Weston and Tabby Stoecker taking skeleton team silver last week, today marks just the third time Great Britain have won bobsleigh and skeleton medals at same World Championships (2009, 2023 and 2025) and means the team’s World Championship tally for the year is five following Corie Mapp’s para bobsleigh gold in St Moritz last month.
World Championship schedule
All times are GMT
Thurs 6 & Fri 7 Mar
Men's Skeleton: Weston 1st; Wyatt 2nd; Bostock 18th
Women's Skeleton: Stoecker 8th; Coltman 14th; Tarbit 18th
Sat 8 & Sun 9 Mar
2-man Bobsleigh: Hall & Lawrence 6th; Baird & Butterworth DNF
Women's monobob: Nicoll 16th
Sun 9 Mar
Skeleton Team Event: Stoecker & Weston 2nd; Coltman & Wyatt DSQ
Fri 14 Mar
4-man Bobsleigh Runs 1&2 12pm
Women's Bobsleigh Runs 1&2 5pm
Sat 15 Mar
4-man Bobsleigh Runs 3&4 12 pm
Women's Bobsleigh Runs 3&4 5pm
