Season's best for 4-man team
The GB1 4-man team recorded their best result of the season so far as they started 2026 with a fourth-place finish in Winterberg.
Brad Hall, Leon Greenwood, Taylor Lawrence and Greg Cackett missed a first medal of the World Campaign by 0.19 seconds as they came down as the best non-German sled on German ice.
Today’s result beats their previous best this season of fifth from the last event of 2025 in Lillehammer, Norway, and it sees them cement fifth spot in the 4-man World Cup rankings with two races remaining before the Olympic Winter Games.
GB were the fifth fastest starters in Run 1 and the seventh in Run 2 as 2022 Olympian and serving Royal Marine Lawrence made his maiden appearance of the season after a calf injury had seen him miss the events in Cortina, Igls, Lillehammer and Sigulda.
They sat in the bronze medal spot at the halfway mark having come down 12 hundredths, of a second shy of race winner Francesco Friedrich, three hundredths behind Johannes Lochner and two hundredths ahead of the third German sled piloted by Adam Ammour.
Ammour went quickest in the second run, however, to jump above the Brits, with Friedrich and Lochner retaining their first and second spots respectively.
Hall and co clocked a combined time of 1 minute 49.32 seconds, with Friedrich coming down in 1.49.07 on his 100th 4-man World Cup start.
Austria’s Markus Treichl finished fifth, Swiss pilot Cedric Follador was sixth and Italy’s Patrick Baumgartner - the driver one place ahead of Hall in the overall standings - was seventh in the 27-strong field.
GB1 made the wider podium as they just missed bronze in Germany
Earlier in the day, Adele Nicoll and Ashleigh Nelson placed 18th in the women’s bobsleigh at the same venue.
Nicoll, who was 12th in yesterday’s monobob, and Nelson, who is hoping to become a Winter Olympian next month having already competed at the Summer Games, clocked a two-run time of 1 minute 55.71 seconds.
The British crew were 20th of 27 sleds in the first run but went 15th quickest second time around to jump up two spots in the final standings.
Germany enjoyed another clean sweep of the podium places as Laura Nolte won from Lisa Buckwitz and Kim Kalicki.
The World Cup circuit now moves on to St Moritz in Switzerland for the penultimate race of the World Cup campaign.
