Taylor Lawrence and Team GB miss out on bobsleigh medal on final day in Milano-Cortina

It was a disappointing end to the Olympic Winter Games for Team GB’s four-man bobsleigh team, which includes Royal Marines Commando Taylor Lawrence, as they rounded up seventh overall after the fourth and final heat.

The team were targeting a medal in Milano-Cortina, but they gave themselves a difficult task to improve on their sixth place from Beijing four years ago.

They started off on the right foot on their first heat, where they clocked the third fastest time, but a mistake-riddled second run dropped them down the standings well out of position before the final two runs.

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On the final two runs, driver Brad Hall fought well to keep the team within touching distance of a potential medal finish, putting them tied sixth with Switzerland going into the final heat.

But some costly mistakes in the final run finished them with a total time of 3:39.12 and a difficult to swallow seventh place overall. 

Germany’s Johannes Lochner piloted his team to gold to complete the two and four-man double, beating reigning champion and fellow countryman Francesco Friedrich into silver. 

Switzerland, piloted by Michael Vogt, swooped in for a surprise bronze - preventing another German clean sweep of the podium.

Elsewhere, Trinidad and Tobago's four-man bobsleigh team, which included Royal Navy athlete Able Rate Shakeel John, ended their Olympics with a DNF following a crash on their second run, which was the result of a mechanical failure within their four-man sled.

Lance Corporal Lawrence withdrew from the final two heats of the two-man competition earlier in the week as a precautionary measure, after he felt some discomfort in his calf during warm-ups. 

He had been suffering from a calf injury early in the season, and with the whole team plagued by injuries they endured a less than ideal build-up to the Games, winning just one World Cup medal in the process.

Lawrence, along with Brad Hall, have been a part of the team’s historic first World Championship medal since 1939 when they took silver in 2023 and then a bronze in 2025, as well as a European title in Altenberg earlier that year.