Arran Gulliver

Arran Gulliver

Personal information
Nationality	British
Born	(1997-07-03) 3 July 1997 (age 28)
Sport
Sport	Bobsleigh
Medal record Men's bobsleigh Representing   Great Britain World Championships 2023 St. Moritz Four-man 2025 Lake Placid Four-man European Championships 2023 Altenberg Four-man 2025 Lillehammer Four-man

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

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]} He was a bronze medalist in the four-man at the IBSF World Championships 2025 in Lake Placid, United States. ^[11]

On 24 March 2025, Gulliver was provisionally suspended after testing positive for ostarine during an out-of-competition test on 2 March. ^[12]

References

1. "Meet the British Team". teambobsleighbrad. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
2. "Bewdley's Arran Gulliver on Bobsleigh World Championship medal win". Kidderminster Shuttle. 8 Feb 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 Feb 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. "GB bobsleigh's Gulliver provisionally suspended". BBC Sport. 24 March 2025. Retrieved 25 March 2025.