Nice Britain’s Adele Nicoll and Kya Placide received silver on the Bobsleigh World Cup in Lake Placid simply two months after first sliding collectively competitively.
Nicoll, 27, and Placide, 19, completed second within the two-woman occasion with a time of 1 minute 54.2 seconds from their two runs.
It’s only the second medal received by a British ladies’s staff in 15 years.
Britain’s Corie Mapp additionally took silver within the males’s para-bobsleigh occasion.
Placide had by no means stepped right into a bobsleigh till this winter, whereas Nicoll had solely three world cup begins within the two-woman self-discipline earlier than Saturday.
Nevertheless, she was a part of the final British ladies’s staff to win a world cup medal, alongside Mica McNeill in Sigulda, Latvia in January 2022.
The 2023 two-woman bobsleigh world champions Kim Kalicki and Leonie Fiebig of Germany completed 0.81 seconds forward of the British pair. Germany’s Olympic champion Laura Nolte, with Claudia Schussler, got here third to seal the general world cup title and retain the gold crystal globe trophy she received final yr.
In the meantime, Mapp’s silver in La Plagne, France, means the 45-year-old solely has to complete within the prime six of Sunday’s occasion to take the general 2023-24 World Cup crown, having completed within the medals in 5 of the seven races to this point this season.