NICK GLEESON

Nick Gleeson is a serving Paratrooper, a multiple World Cup medalist and Britain's youngest Olympic bobsledder.

Nick's inclusion in the Team GB squad for the PyeongChang Games in February 2018 came just four months after his 21st birthday as he capped a remarkable rise through the ranks with a spot in the GB1 crew for the sport's showpiece event in South Korea.

He was selected in both the 2-man and 4-man teams for the Beijing Olympics in February 2022, finishing 11th with Brad Hall and then sixth alongside Hall, Taylor Lawrence and Greg Cackett in China. He previously equalled the country's best 2-man result at World Championship level when he finished joint fourth with Hall in Whistler in March 2019 in what was his debut World Championship appearance.

Nick switched from the back seat to the front at the start of the Milan Cortina Olympic cycle and is currently the men’s GB2 pilot heading into the 2025/26 season.

A four-time World Cup medalist as a push athlete during the 2021/22 campaign, he has since had a number of top six finishes as a pilot on the Europa Cup circuit and he starts the 2025/26 season looking to build on those results in North American Cup and Europa Cup competition.

A member of the 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment (3 Para), his first taste of bobsleigh came in the military thanks to former GB athlete Steve Smith.

Nick made his Europa Cup debut in December 2016 and his World Cup bow in Whistler in November 2017. He was named Sports Aid's Athlete of the Month in January 2018 and the BBSA's Bobsleigh Breakthrough Athlete of the Year that July after going from World Cup rookie to fully-fledged Olympian in just four months.