Crawley bobsleigh star selected for Team GB Winter Olympics squad

Hall has been selected for his third Olympic Games and will pilot the two-man and four-man squads.

The 35-year-hold is the most successful men’s World Cup pilot in British history, having collected no fewer than 30 race medals on the sport’s top circuit. He will be joined in both events by Taylor Lawrence, who has 25 World Cup medals to his name and with whom Hall won World Cup bronze in St Moritz earlier this month.

Greg Cackett and Leon Greenwood complete the four-man squad, with Alex Cartagena named as the travelling reserve. Despite a season challenged by injury, the squad’s final World Cup races ahead of the Games saw them secure fourth in the overall four-man standings and sixth in the two-man.

Hall said: “I’m excited to go to my third Olympic Games. The track in Cortina is looking good and we’re looking forward to getting out there. You need a good mix of start speed and driving ability in Cortina and we know that we have the right skills to do well there if we can be consistent over all four runs.

"We’ve been disrupted by injury this season but we’re building nicely and ended the World Cup campaign with some good results, so we’re excited to get out there and really challenge for a medal.”

Natalie Dunman, Team GB team leader for bobsleigh and skeleton at Milano Cortina 2026, said: “We head to Cortina after a really positive Olympic Cycle in which both sports have won multiple World Championship and World Cup medals. The squad have demonstrated their strength in depth, with those medals shared across both bobsleigh and skeleton and across the men’s and women’s teams, and the athletes have regularly shown that they can compete with the best in the world.

“We believe we have a solid platform for success in Italy but we know that repeating those performances on the Olympic stage will require a huge effort from all the athletes and staff. We are quietly confident that we can do the country proud but we certainly won’t be taking anything for granted and we know that we will have to be at our very best if we are to achieve our aims next month.”

Eve Muirhead, Chef de Mission for Team GB at Milano Cortina, said: “I’m incredibly proud to announce the bobsleigh and skeleton athletes selected to represent Team GB at the Olympic Winter Games. Following a series of world class performances throughout the 2025/26 World Cup season, our sliding athletes head into Milano Cortina full of confidence, and we look forward to seeing them take to the track in Cortina.”

The Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games takes place from February 6-22.