Team GB bobsleigh team 2022: British Winter Olympics event squad with Brad Hall - did Greg Rutherford qualify?

The bobsleigh events are just over a week away and Team GB will be represented by a mix of first, second and third time Olympians.

Brad Hall will lead the men’s team while Mica McNeill will pilot the women’s bobsleigh squads.

Bobsleigh consists of three events in the Olympic Programme: the male four-man; male two-man and female two-man with each event involving four heats, held on two consecutive days.

The final standings of the event are then determined by the total time over the four runs.

The sport has always been an official part of the Winter Olympic programme since the Games’ first event in Chamonix, 1924, where Team GB won their one and only silver medal.

Team GB have won a gold medal in the bobsleigh once: at Innsbruck in 1964 in the two-man bob.

Great Britain also has three bronze medals in a sport similar to that of an extreme toboggan.

In the 2014 Games in Sochi, John James Jackson, Stuart Benson, Bruce Tasker and Joel Fearon won bronze in the men’s four-man bobsleigh.

So who will feature in this year’s bobsleigh teams and will Summer Olympian Greg Rutherford be making an appearance?

Will Greg Rutherford feature at the Winter Olympics 2022?

Rutherford, who won gold at the 2012 London Olympics for the long jump, had high hopes of becoming the first British athlete to win a medal at a summer and winter Olympics.

However his dreams were crushed when his four-man team missed out on selection for GB’s bobsleigh squad as they failed to hit the qualifying standard.

The long jumper came out of retirement last year in an attempt to qualify in Lamin Deen’s sled. Rutherford was also forced to battle back from injury to make his bobsleigh debut but Deen and the team failed to achieve the qualifying standard of three top-12 World cup finishes this season - thus ending Rutherford’s chances of making it out in Beijing.

Who has made the Team GB Bobsleigh team?

The Team GB squad for the Bobsleigh was announced on 20 January 2022 and will be piloted by athletes who also present at the Pyeongchang Olympics in 2018.

Brad Hall will pilot the two-man and four-man men’s events while Mica McNeill will pilot the women’s bobsleigh.

Hall will be joined by fellow Pyeongchang 2018 athletes Nick Gleeson, Greg Cackett and an Olympic debutant Taylor Lawrence.

The two-time Olympian Ben Simons has been selected as the travelling reserve.

Hall and Gleeson will participate in the two-man sled before being joined by Cackett and Lawrence for the four-man bobsled event.

Lawrence is a Royal Marine, Gleeson is a paratrooper while Cackett is a former sprinter. The squad finished fourth in the four-man world rankings and fight in the two-man.

It is currently the most successful British bobsleigh team since the 1990s.

The men’s team have already enjoyed a phenomenal season and won six medals on the World cup circuit as well as another at the Olympic Test Event in China in October.

Mica McNeill will be joined in the sled by Montell Douglas. This is not the first Olympics for Douglas either as she returns to Beijing for her second Olympic event.

Douglas competed for Team GB as a sprinter and was part of the team which reached the final of the 4x100 metres relay.

Adele Nicoll will travel as the reserve athlete for the women’s team.

How to follow the Bobsleigh events at the Winter Olympics

Go to our article on where to watch the Winter Olympics to keep up with all the latest information on how Team GB are doing.

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