Bruce
Tasker

Starts Performance Coach

Bruce Tasker is the Starts Performance Coach for the British Bobsleigh programme - a role that sees him work closely with the GB teams both at our training base in Bath and out on circuit.

He held the role of Olympic Team Leader at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games before returning to the programme in his current role midway through the Milan Cortina Olympic cycle.

Bruce previously enjoyed a stellar sliding career stretching over eight years and two Olympic cycles.

The former 400 and 200 metre runner is an Olympic medallist from Sochi 2014, having won bronze with John Jackson, Stu Benson and Joel Fearon in Russia four years after he made the switch from athletics track to ice track.

Bruce had to wait nearly six years to receive that medal after initially finishing fifth behind two Russian sleds who were later disqualified for doping offences.

As well as his historic Olympic exploits in Sochi, Bruce tasted success on the World Cup, Europa Cup and North American Cup circuits.

He won World Cup silver with his Sochi crew at Lake Placid in 2013 and World Cup bronze with Brad Hall, Greg Cackett and Fearon in Park City in November 2017 and appeared at no fewer than six World Championships.

Having started as a push athlete, Bruce went on to become a pilot, making history at the 2016 World Championships when he drove Fearon to a fourth-place finish in the 2-man competition - Great Britain’s best World Championship result in that discipline for fully 50 years.

Bruce suffered a stroke in January 2018 and was forced to miss the PyeongChang Olympics as a result. He called time on his sliding career in October of that year but went on to coach the Royal Navy bobsleigh team to victory at the Inter Service Championships in Konigssee prior to rejoining the BBSA.

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