Nice Britain’s Corie Mapp capped an excellent season by successful his first males’s Para-bobsleigh World Championships gold, simply two weeks after claiming the general World Cup title for a 3rd time.
The 46-year-old former soldier, who’s a double amputee, posted an total time of 4 minutes 54.03 seconds for his 4 runs in St Moritz to say gold by 0.3 seconds from Switzerland’s Jonas Frei, with Austria’s Hermann Ellmauer third.
Mapp grew to become the primary British man in 60 years to say a World Championships bobsleigh gold in what was his ninth try, after successful silver in 2019 and bronze in 2024 and 2017.
“This win may be very emotional for me – it is one thing that I’ve wished for thus lengthy and one thing that we have tried so arduous to attain,” stated Mapp, after finishing the set of main honours out there to him within the sport.
“The celebrities positively aligned for this one. Every thing went the way in which we wished it to go and I am extremely grateful for this success.
“I’ve now received the Grand Slam and lengthy might this proceed.”
Mapp took his tally to 60 main medals in Para-bobsleigh, including the world title to 2 gold medals on the European Championships, in 2019 and 2024, and total titles within the World Cup sequence in 2018, 2024 and 2025.
Para-bobsleigh is just not included within the Winter Paralympics.
Tony Nash and Robin Dixon have been the final British males to win a gold medal at a bobsleigh World Championships, claiming the two-man title in St Moritz in 1965.
