Team Hall ends superb season with a second four-man bobsleigh World Championships medal in three years
Great Britain are celebrating a second four-man bobsleigh World Championship medal in three years, having previously not won one since 1939, after Brad Hall steered his crew to a brilliant bronze in Lake Placid.
It was almost a silver for the University of Bath-based quartet of Hall, Arran Gulliver, Taylor Lawrence and Greg Cackett, who saw their fastest of four runs chalked off after the results from Heat 2 were declared null and void.
That came after Johannes Lochner’s sled suffered apparent runner damage during a heat which saw the German drop from second to sixth overall. The race jury initially ruled that Lochner should get a rerun before instead deciding to cancel the entire completed heat due to ‘track conditions’.
The decision meant that Team Hall started the second day of competition in third place, two-hundredths of a second behind Lochner, and they remained in those positions as they completed the podium behind gold-medallist Francesco Friedrich of Germany.
Bronze mirrored the achievements of Hall and his crew during the Overall World Cup season, and meant that 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.
Attention now turns to the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games, with athletes from the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association (BBSA) now having a short break before returning to their University of Bath training base for the final summer of preparations.
The University of Bath is home to the UK’s only outdoor push-start training track and British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association athletes also do their strength and conditioning work at the Team Bath Sports Training Village. Click here to find out more.
