Great Britain gained a primary four-man bobsleigh medal on the World Championships for 84 years with silver in St Mortiz.
Pilot Brad Hall, Taylor Lawrence, Greg Cackett and Arran Gulliver completed joint second with Latvia.
Germany’s Olympic champion Francesco Friedrich claimed his fifth consecutive title in a time of 4 minutes 19.61 seconds, 0.69secs forward.
Britain’s most up-to-date four-man medal, additionally a silver, got here in Cortina in 1939.
Britain went into the ultimate run trailing Germany by eight hundredths of a second.
But Friedrich, who gained four-man and two-man gold on the 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics, set a monitor document time of 01:04.73 as Germany took a cushty gold.
Britain’s males final gained a World Championship medal in any self-discipline in 1966, when Tony Nash and Robin Dixon took two-man bronze in Cortina.
Nicola Minichiello and Gillian Cooke claimed gold in the ladies’s occasion in Lake Placid in 2009.
