Taylor Lawrence
British bobsledder (born 1996)
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Taylor Lawrence (born 13 August 1996)[1] is a British bobsledder.
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| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 13 August 1996 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Bobsleigh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
He was an amateur footballer, cricketer and rugby player alongside his career as a lance corporal in the Royal Marines. He first tried bobsled in 2019. After progressing to the British team, he was a member of the four-man crew which finished sixth in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.[2][3]
He was a gold medalist with the British four-man team at the IBSF European Championships 2023 in Germany.[4] He was a silver medalist in the Four-man bobsled at the IBSF World Championships 2023 in St Moritz, Switzerland. For the Great Britain team, it was a first four-man World Championships medal in 84 years.[5]
He was a member of the Great Britain four-man bobsleigh team that won a bronze medal in the 2024–25 Bobsleigh World Cup, alongside Brad Hall, Leon Greenwood and Arran Gulliver.[6] He also participated in six of the eight races in the two-man World Cup, in which the British team won bronze.[7]
He won bronze medals in both the two-man, alongside Hall, and four-man at the IBSF European Championships 2025 in Lillehammer, Norway.[8][9]
He was a bronze medalist in the four man at the IBSF World Championships 2025 in Lake Placid, United States.[10]
Lawrence competed at the 2026 Winter Olympics in the two-man and four-man competitions, finishing 12th and 7th respectively.[11][12] Lawrence sustained a minor injury during the two-man event that saw him replaced by Leon Greenwood for heats three and four, with Lawrence focussing on regaining his fitness for the four-man event.[13]
