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Bath (RWH)  The BBC website reports that Dominik Scherrer of Switzerland has been appointed technical coach of British Bobsleigh. The 46-year-old was head coach of the Swiss bobsleigh team until April 2010, and it was under his leadership that pilot Ivo Rüegg won the 2007 four-man World Championships in St. Moritz and the 2009 two-man World Championships in Lake Placid, and Martin Annen took bronze in both disciplines at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. Scherrer was also a member of the Sports Committee in the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation FIBT (Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing) for many years.

Scherrer will lead the technical development of the British sled design in conjunction with the team’s partners UK Sport and McLaren Applied Technologies with a view to the forthcoming Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014. “I really believe Great Britain has the potential to do well,” Scherrer told the BBC. “There is work to be done but I am looking forward to making it happen.”