IBSF World Championships 2023: Great Britain win joint silver in four-man bobsleigh
Great Britain won a first four-man bobsleigh medal at the World Championships for 84 years with silver in St Moritz.Germany's Olympic champion Francesco Friedrich claimed his fifth consecutive title in a time of four minutes 19.61 seconds, 0.69secs ahead."It's been a hell of a long time since a four-man crew has won a World Championship medal. To be the ones who have bucked that trend is pretty special.
Frederick McEvoy led Britain to their previous four-man medal, also a silver, in Cortina, Italy, in 1939. Hall, whose previous best four-man finish at the World Championships was seventh in 2020, went into the final run trailing Germany by eight hundredths of a second. But Friedrich, who won four-man and two-man gold at the 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics, set a track record time of 1:04.73 as Germany took a comfortable gold.
Britain's men last won a World Championship medal in any discipline in 1966, when Tony Nash and Robin Dixon took two-man bronze in Cortina.Why has Bad Education made a comeback?
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