Corie
Mapp
Place of birthBarbados
Corie Mapp is a multiple World Cup, World Championship and European Championship medalist in Para Bobsleigh.
Corie had 32 top-tier medals to his name by the end of the 2021/22 sliding season after adding four to his tally last term, including European Championship silver in St Moritz in February.
He finished third in the overall World Cup standings in 2021/22 and was fourth at the World Championships in Lillehammer where he missed another medal by just four hundredths of a second.
Corie also placed fourth at the 2021 World Champs and second at that season's European Championships as he ended the 2020/21 season fifth in the standings.
Corie enjoyed a superb season in 2019/20, winning four gold medals and a silver in the 10-race World Cup competition to win overall World Cup silver on top of claiming the European title in Oberhof.
An overall bronze medalist in 2019 and a silver medal winner in 2016, Corie previously claimed the overall World Cup crown in 2018 when he won four gold, three silver and a bronze medal to take his maiden global title in style.
Having won World Championship silver in 2019 and bronze in 2017, Corie was among the favourites for World Championship gold in Lillehammer in 2020 (he won gold and silver medals at the World Cup races in Norway in December 2019) before the showpiece event of that season was cancelled as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic.
A Lance Corporal in the British Army, Corie lost both legs when his military vehicle ran over an explosive device in Afghanistan in 2010. Among other injuries, he suffered a broken jaw, severed lip and punctured lung but three years later he was representing Great Britain at the European Championships for sitting volleyball.
He took part in the Invictus Games in 2014 and it was Help the Heroes that introduced him to bobsleigh at a trial camp in Calgary a year earlier.
CORIE IN HIS OWN WORDS...
- Nickname: Black Ice
- Most likely to be spotted: watching Arsenal at The Emirates Stadium as I’m a massive football fan
- Me in three: hardworking, loyal, selfless
- Heroes: Muhammed Ali, Anthony Joshua and Thierry Henry
- Random fact: I was born in Barbados
- If I wasn’t a slider: I’d be into sledge hockey
Meet the team
- Adam Baird
- Adelé Nicoll
- Alex Cartagena
- Ally Kay
- Amelia Coltman
- Arran Gulliver
- Ben Riekstins
- Benji Fulker
- Brad Hall
- Brogan Crowley
- Caroline Gray
- Charlotte Longden
- Craig Thompson
- Dave Short
- Ed McDermott
- Freya Tarbit
- George Jenkins
- Graham Richardson
- Greg Cackett
- Holly Rust-March
- Issy Fassnidge
- Jacob Salisbury
- James Howard
- John Stanbridge
- Josh Hudson
- Kane Densley
- Laura Deas
- Laurence Bostock
- Leon Greenwood
- Luka Williams
- Marc Heywood
- Marcus Wyatt
- Mareks Mezencevs
- Mark Silva
- Martins Dukurs
- Matt Weston
- Matthias Guggenberger
- Mica Moore
- Mike Muckelt
- Naomi Tomlin
- Natalie Dunman
- Niamh Lashbrook
- Nick Gleeson
- Nikki McSweeney
- Owen Allner
- Patrick Atkin
- Risqat Fabunmi-Alade
- Sean Olsson
- Tabby Stoecker
- Taylor Lawrence