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IBSF World Championships 2023: Great Britain win t silver in four-man bobsleigh

Britain's four-man bobsleigh team, right, celebrate with fellow medallists after finishing second at the World Championships in St Moritz, SwitzerlandBBSA/Viesturs Lacis

Britain's four-man team (right) are European champions

Great Britain won a first four-man bobsleigh medal at the World Championships for 84 years with silver in St Moritz.

Pilot Brad Hall, Taylor Lawrence, Greg Cackett and Arran Gulliver finished t second with Latvia.

's Olympic champion sco Friedrich claimed his fifth consecutive title in a time of four minutes 19.61 seconds, 0.69secs ahead.

"It's an incredible achievement," said Hall, 32, who was fifth in the two-man.

"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 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 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.

Nicola Minichiello and Gillian Cooke claimed gold in the women's event in Lake Placid in 2009.

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