Brad Hall (bobsledder)

Hall took up sports after getting into trouble at school. He studied at Hazelwick School in Crawley, West Sussex, where he was taught by comedian Romesh Ranganathan for maths.^[2] He played rugby and athletics and took up winter sports following his participation in a UK Sport talent identification scheme called Power to Podium while he was at university. He initially tried skeleton but later attended trials for the bobsleigh team.^[3]

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In November 2017, Hall was a member of the four-man team who won a bronze medal in the 2017-18 World Cup event in Park City.^[4] At the 2018 Winter Olympics, Hall finished 17th in the four-man event and 12th in the two-man event.^[5]

After Great Britain's bobsleigh squad failed to challenge for medals in the bobsleigh at the 2018 Winter Olympics, UK Sport ended its funding for the sport. Hall chose to launch a crowd fundraiser in February 2019 to raise £6000 for racing equipment.^[6]

In the 2019-20 World Cup, Hall finished in second place with Greg Cackett in the two-man race at Igls. This was the first time that a British bobsleigh team had won a medal in the two-man format in the history of the competition.^[7] His joint fourth in the two-man World Championships in Whistler in 2019 was the best British result in the competition for over 50 years.^[8]

In December 2022, Hall led Great Britain to gold in the four-man event at the World Cup meeting in Lake Placid. He had recorded 13 career podium finishes in World Cups but this was his first gold.^[9] In January 2023, he also won a silver medal with Taylor Lawrence in the two-man event at Altenberg.^[10] The following day, Hall's British team won a gold medal in the four-man event.^[11] Later that month, Hall led Great Britain to their first ever European title in the four-man event. Racing alongside Arran Gulliver, Greg Cackett and Taylor Lawrence, the quartet beat Germany by 0.09 seconds in Altenberg.^[12] At the 2023 World Championships in St Moritz, he piloted the British team to a silver medal which they jointly shared with Latvia. It was Great Britain's first medal in the four-man bobsleigh in a World Championships for 84 years.^[13]

In January 2025, Hall helped Great Britain win two gold medals in the four-man at the World Cup meetings in Winterberg (the first occasion since 2012 that a German team had failed to win a World Cup event at the venue)^[14] and St Moritz.^[15] In February, Hall won a bronze medal in both the two-man^[16] and four-man events in the World Cup meeting in Lillehammer.^[17] In March, he led Great Britain to a bronze medal in the World Championships at Lake Placid in the four-man event.^[18]

In January 2026, Hall won a bronze medal in the two-man event at the World Cup meeting in St Moritz. The event also doubled up as the European Championships.^[19] In February, it was announced that Hall and figure skater Lilah Fear had been selected as the Team GB flag bearers for the 2026 Winter Olympics opening ceremony.^[20] At the Games, Hall took part in the Two-man Bobsleigh competition with Taylor Lawrence and the pair were eighth after the first two runs. Lawrence then pulled out with an injury, and Leon Greenwood stepped in for the final two runs. The duo finished the event in twelfth position.^[21] He then finished seventh in the Four-man competition.^[22]

Olympic Games

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Event	Two-man	Four-man
Representing  Great Britain
2018 Pyeongchang	12th	17th
2022 Beijing	11th	6th
2026 Milan-Cortina	12th	7th

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World Championships

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Event	Two-man	Four-man
Representing  Great Britain
2016 Innsbruck	17th	11th *
2017 Königssee	28th	DNF **
2019 Whistler	4th	13th
2020 Altenberg	16th	7th
2021 Altenberg	11th	DNF ***
2023 St. Moritz	5th	2nd
2024 Winterberg	4th	6th
2025 Lake Placid	6th	3rd

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** crash at the second run

*** DNS at the third run

Bobsleigh World Cup

Two-man

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Season	Place	Points	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
2014–15	34th	119	—	—	—	—	—	19	24	—
2015–16	22nd	268	—	—	20	—	—	—	18	13
2016–17	32nd	151	—	—	—	—	—	27	24	19
2017–18	19th	617	19	DNF	13	24	19	14	18	14
2018–19	19th	592	—	—	15	9	8	6	—	—
2019–20	8th	1050	—	—	4	2	6	8	5	12
2020–21	12th	1296	—	—	—	—	7	6	12	8	7	10	5	7
2021–22	5th	1444	3	5	11	9	2	2	6	6
2022–23	3rd	1582	2	2	5	3	2	4	5	4
2023–24	14th	632	−	–	11	9	6	7	–	–
2024–25	2nd	1538	3	4	2	4	6	5	3	5
2025–26	6th	1056	6	17	12	7	14	3	5	—N/a

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Four-man

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Season	Place	Points	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
2016–17	21st	368	—	—	—	—	—	12	18	8
2017–18	12th	952	22	3	9	13	13	15	10	22
2018–19	14th	610	15	17	13	19	14	14	–	–
2019–20	13th	728	–	–	9	10	8	12	10	DNS
2020–21	17th	328	DNS	DNS	7	8	—N/a
2021–22	4th	1430	2	11	9	5	2	7	2	8
2022–23	2nd	1707	2	4	1	2	1	1	2	2
2023–24	13th	552	–	–	–	6	6	3	–	–
2024–25	3rd	1444	5	1	3	2	1		3	3
2025–26	4th	1224	6	10	6	5	4	8	4	—N/a

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