Para-Bobsleigh World Championships: Britain's Corie Mapp wins bronze in Lillehammer
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Corie Mapp became the first Briton to win a Para-Bobsleigh World Cup gold medal in 2015
Great Britain's Corie Mapp produced a storming final run to clinch bronze in the Para-Bobsleigh World Championships in Lillehammer, Norway.
He followed up a gold medal in Friday's World Cup race on the same track, which doubled as the European Championships.
Mapp, 45, was out of the medals going into Sunday's fourth run, but posted the quickest time to leapfrog Italy's Flavio Menardi into third place.
"I'm extremely proud of what we've achieved," said Mapp.
The former lance corporal in the British Army finished with an overall time of three minutes 44.61 seconds for his four runs in the World Championships.
United States' Robert Balk won gold in 3:44.10, while Switzerland's Christopher Stewart was second.
"It's been an extremely challenging but rewarding week," added Mapp.
"Our goals were to maintain the number-one World Cup ranking, win the Euros and win the World Championships. "We've managed to do two of the three."
Mapp leads the overall World Cup standings after adding his first victory of the campaign to three podiums from his previous five races.
He has a 34-point lead over Latvia's Arturs Klots, in second place, with a double-header remaining in La Plagne, France, on 23-24 March.
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