Arran Gulliver

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Arran Gulliver
Personal information
NationalityBritish
Born (1997-07-03) 3 July 1997 (age 28)
Sport
Sport Bobsleigh
Medal record
Men's bobsleigh
Representing Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2023 St. Moritz Four-man
Disqualified 2025 Lake Placid Four-man
European Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Altenberg Four-man
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2025 Lillehammer Four-man

Arran Gulliver (born 3 July 1997) [1] is a British bobsledder.

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Early life

Born in Worcestershire, he attended The Bewdley School. He took part in athletics and judo and participated in CrossFit before forging a bobsleigh career. He was British schools judo Champion in 2015, and has a 100m sprint time of 10.75 seconds. [2] [3] [4]

Career

He started training for bobsleigh in the Summer of 2022 after seeing an advert for the British Bobsleigh programme in Bath. [5] He had been due to start training to be a police officer, but instead chose to focus on bobsleigh, following the successful trials. He first set foot in a bobsleigh in late October 2022. [2]

He was a gold medalist with the British four-man team at the IBSF European Championships 2023 in Germany. [6] 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. [7]

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 Taylor Lawrence. [8]

He was a bronze medalist in the four-man at the IBSF European Championships 2025 in Lillehammer, Norway. [9] [10] Although he was part of the team that placed third in the four-man at the IBSF World Championships 2025 in Lake Placid, United States, his personal bronze medal was later disqualified due an anti-doping violation. [11] [12]

Following a provisional suspension, in October 2025 Gulliver was issued with a two-year ban backdated to March 2025 for an anti-doping rule violation for unintentional use of ostarine. [13] [12]

References

  1. ↑ "Meet the British Team". teambobsleighbrad. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  2. 1 2 "Bewdley's Arran Gulliver on Bobsleigh World Championship medal win". Kidderminster Shuttle. 8 February 2023. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  3. ↑ "Bobsleigh gold medal was best moment of my career'". BBC News. 7 January 2025. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  4. ↑ "The new kid on the block: Arran Gulliver's whirlwind bobsleigh journey". TeamGB. 24 February 2023. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  5. ↑ "Aaron Gulliver". thebbsa. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  6. ↑ "GB win first European bobsleigh gold with victory in four-man event". BBC Sport. 22 January 2023. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  7. ↑ "IBSF World Championships 2023: Great Britain win joint silver in four-man bobsleigh". BBC Sport. 5 February 2023. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  8. ↑ Harber, Tony (18 February 2025). "Batley bobsleigh man Leon Greenwood earns bronze medal in World Cup". Dewsbury Reporter. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
  9. ↑ Briant, Nathan (21 February 2025). "GB Olympic hopeful aims for bobsleigh medal". BBC News. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
  10. ↑ "HALL & LAWRENCE BAG BRONZE IN LILLEHAMMER". thebbsa.co.uk. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  11. ↑ "GB clinch no Ali with bronze at World Championships". BBC Sport. 15 March 2025. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  12. 1 2 "GB Winter Olympic medal hope banned for two years". BBC Sport. Retrieved 9 October 2025.
  13. ↑ "GB bobsleigh's Gulliver provisionally suspended". BBC Sport. 24 March 2025. Retrieved 25 March 2025.