Brad HALL

SPECIAL THANKS
Painted “Thank you NHS” (National Health Service) on the front of his sled in 2020 to honour hospital workers during the Covid-19 pandemic. (itv.com, 12 Dec 2020)

CHARITY PROMOTION
Dedicated space on his sled to charities during the 2020/21 season, in an area usually sold to commercial sponsors. Charities include 'Pancreatic Cancer UK' because his father, his biggest source of inspiration in his sporting career, passed away at the age of 53 from the disease. “We are living through unprecedented times and few have been hit harder during the Covid pandemic than charities," the team said. "To this end, and after discussions with our sponsors, we came up with the idea to be charity bob. We would compete for the entire 2020/21 IBSF World Cup season as a charity-focused sled, with our commercial sponsors kindly stepping back and allowing their normal logo space to be replaced with a charity. The charities chosen were all organisations close to the hearts of our crew members plus a collective partnership with the NHS.” (telegraph.co.uk, 17 Dec 2020; thechildrenstrust.org.uk, 29 Dec 2020)

CROWDFUNDING
After competing on dated equipment at the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games, he decided to crowdfund for a rental sled during the 2018/19 season, with instant results. In 2019, just after his two-man crew finished fourth at the World Championships, UK Sport announced it would not be funding any British teams toward the next Olympic Winter Games. With the valuable help of sponsors, he was able to purchase the rented sled that brought them world championships success and eventually finished eighth in the two-man World Cup standings in 2019/20 despite missing two races. (teamgb.com, 26 Oct 2021; teambobsleighbrad.com)

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Two top-20 finishes in his Olympic Winter Games debut at PyeongChang 2018.

In five World Championships appearances (2016-17, 2019-21), his fourth-place tie in the two-man with Canada's Chris Spring in 2019 was the best British result in 53 years.

In four races at three Junior World Championships (2012, 2014, 2016), his best finish is fourth in two-man (2016).

His two-man silver at the 2019 World Cup in Innsbruck was the first for Great Britain in 30 years.

Three of his five World Cup podium appearances have occurred at Innsbruck: silvers in the two-man in 2020 and four-man in 2021, and a bronze in the two-man in 2021.