Bobsleigh World Cup: Brad Hall leads Great Britain to two more overall bronze medals

Brad Hall led Great Britain to overall four-man and combined bronze at the final race of the Bobsleigh World Cup season in Lillehammer.

It makes it a hat-trick of overall bronze medals at this year’s World Cup after Hall and Taylor Lawrence sealed third in the two-man event on Saturday.

Overall World Cup medals are awarded once points from all seven races are added together.

A Germany team led by Johannes Lochner won the final four-man race in Norway to secure the overall silver.

Hall, Lawrence, Arran Gulliver and Leon Greenwood would have won overall silver themselves had they finished second behind Lochner, but they missed out by just four hundredths of a second to another German team led by Francesco Friedrich, who took overall gold for the seventh year running.

The GB team, which included Greg Cackett in three races, ended the four-man season on 1,444 points and won six medals, including two gold in Winterberg and St Moritz last month.

They only missed out on the podium once, at the season opener in Altenberg in December.

“We came into today wanting that overall silver but we can’t be too disappointed with bronze – it’s more proof that we are in a great place heading into next month’s World Championships and next year’s Olympics,” said Gulliver.

“Brad’s driven brilliantly all season and he did that again today. We gave him a good start and our times at the top are improving all the time – which is exactly what we want as we look to peak for the Worlds in a few weeks.”

The Boblesigh World Championships take place Lake Placid, New York, from 6-16 March.