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BBC News
21-02-2025
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GB athlete Leon Greenwood is hoping for a medal in the bobsleigh
A leading athlete who was talent-spotted three years ago, before being injured in a freak accident months later, is hoping for a medal with his GB bobsleigh Greenwood, from Newbury, Berkshire, helped Great Britain to third place overall in the Bobsleigh World Cup in Lillehammer last week, the sixth time in a row the team has finished in the top was previously a sprinter but was told to give bobsleigh a go because of his speed and will be part of the team that competes in the World Championship at Lake Placid in the United States on 15 March and hopes to compete in next year's Winter Olympics in Italy. "Back in 2022, I knew someone who did bobsleigh and they said: 'Leon, you look like you would be good at it.'"I did my sprinting and they said: 'You're tall, you're wide but you're not heavy enough just yet,'" he told BBC Radio Berkshire. "I [later] got invited down to this talent identification day, where Olympians were there checking if you had the potential to be a world-class athlete."They saw I had potential and it progressed from there. I got invited again and again and again and that is how I got involved." An accident ruled him out him for months shortly after he joined the team but he managed to retain his place."We were doing loading drills, which is like a static way of getting into the sled before you go onto the ice. I was about to get in [when] I booted the side handle and I broke my toe," he said. "So I got onto the team and I had to wait a year to compete because I couldn't do anything."Greenwood and the four-man team were 0.36 seconds away from finishing second overall but were forced to settle for bronze in the final round at Lillehammer in Norway on Sunday. You can follow BBC Berkshire on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
BBC News
16-02-2025
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GB win two more Bobsleigh World Cup bronzes
Brad Hall led Great Britain to overall four-man and combined bronze at the final race of the Bobsleigh World Cup season in 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 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 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 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 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.
