Seventh and season's best for bobsleigh
Brad Hall and Greg Cackett ended 2025 with seventh spot in Sigulda on Sunday, while Adele Nicoll and Kya Placide recorded their best result of the season.
Hall and Cackett came down in a two-run time of 1 minute 40.01 seconds in the second of two back-to-back 2-man races in Latvia, 24 hours after Hall and Olly Butterworth had finished 12th at the same track.
The result was the second best of the season for the Brits after a sixth-place finish in Cortina in November and it moves them up to 10th in the 2-man standings with four of the seven World Cup competitions complete.
It was Cackett's first 2-man race since January, when he and Hall were sixth in St Moritz.
World Cup leader Johannes Lochner won Sunday’s race after compatriot Francesco Friedrich had taken gold on Sunday. Adam Ammour completed a German clean sweep with bronze on both days.
Brad Hall and Greg Cackett were seventh in Sigulda
Nicoll and Placide were 11th on Sunday in a time of 1 minute 43.63 seconds, 0.83 seconds behind race winner Kaillie Armbruster Humphries.
The British pair were in the medal places at halfway after coming down third fastest in the first run, just 0.04 seconds shy of the lead, but they eventually had to settle for a spot just outside the top 10 after a slower second run.
The result was a two-place improvement on Nicoll’s last 2-woman outing when she finished 13th with Ashleigh Nelson in Lillehammer a week ago.
Nicoll previously placed 16th in the monobob on Saturday in a race won by Australia’s Bree Walker.
The circuit now takes a mini break for the festive season, with British athletes heading back out to Germany shortly after Christmas ahead of the next World Cup race in Winterberg on January 3rd.
