Two days of exhilarating ice sliding competition came to an end on Saturday as the 2009 Inter-Services Bobsleigh and Skeleton Championships came to a dramatic conclusion.
A team made up of two RAF personnel and two Royal Marines will represent Great Britain in the four-man bobsleigh event at the World Championships later this month.
Corporal John Jackson a Physical Training Instructor at the Commando Training Centre Royal Marines has pushed his way to success in the 2 man and 4 man bobsleigh as part of the double winning British Team.
Corporal John Jackson has faced many enemies during his ten and a half year career in the Royal Marines, but none have proved quite as slippery as his latest foe – the bobsleigh track.
At St Moritz in Switzerland over the weekend of 3/4 Feb, 3 members of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines Bobsleigh Team achieved a top ten result in the 4-man Bobsleigh World Championship.