IBSF World Championships 2023: Great Britain win joint silver in four-man bobsleigh

Britain's four-man squad (right) are European champions

Great Britain won a archetypal four-man bobsleigh medal astatine the World Championships for 84 years with metallic successful St Mortiz.

Germany's Olympic champion Francesco Friedrich claimed his 5th consecutive rubric successful a clip of 4 minutes 19.61 seconds, 0.69secs ahead.

Britain's astir caller four-man medal, besides a silver, came successful Cortina successful 1939.

Britain went into the last tally trailing Germany by 8 hundredths of a second.

But Friedrich, who won four-man and two-man golden astatine the 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics, acceptable a way grounds clip of 01:04.73 arsenic Germany took a comfy gold.

Britain's men past won a World Championship medal successful immoderate subject successful 1966, erstwhile Tony Nash and Robin Dixon took two-man bronze successful Cortina.

Nicola Minichiello and Gillian Cooke claimed golden successful the women's lawsuit successful Lake Placid successful 2009.