Bobsleigh World Cup: GB’s Brad Hall & Taylor Lawrence win overall two-man bronze

Brad Hall led Great Britain to their second overall bronze in the World Cup two-man bobsleigh with a fifth-place finish in the final race of the season.

Pilot Hall and team-mate Taylor Lawrence replicated their feat from 2023, when they became the first British pair to win an overall medal in the event.

They managed two podium finishes across eight World Cup races this season and were never outside the top six as they amassed 1,530 points in the overall standings – 40 more than Germany’s Adam Ammour, who was fourth overall.

Germany’s double Olympic champion Francesco Friedrich topped the overall standings for a record seventh time, retaining his two-man title with 1,745 points, while compatriot Johannes Lochner was second.

Lochner finished two-hundredths of a second ahead of Friedrich to win the season finale in Lillehammer in a combined time of one minute 40.99 seconds.

Ammour completed the podium and Switzerland’s Michael Vogt was fourth, while fifth-placed Hall was 0.62 seconds off the pace.

Hall, 34, and Lawrence, 28, will take to the Norwegian track again on Sunday for the final race of the four-man season alongside Leon Greenwood and Arran Gulliver.