Bruce Tasker

Bruce Tasker (born 2 September 1987) is a British former bobsledder and track athlete. He qualified for the 2014 Winter Olympics in the 4-man discipline.

Life and career Tasker was born in 1987 in Lawrenny, Wales. When young, Tasker was a talented athlete, which led to his joining the Carmarthen Harriers athletics club at the age of 11. Specialising in the 100m, 200m and 400m disciplines, In 2006 he was ranked as the United Kingdom's top under-20s athlete in the indoor 400m.

Tasker first competed for Great Britain at a competition at Loughborough, in 2006. Tasker was also part of the four-man teams which represented Great Britain at the 2013 World Championships, coming in fifth He was also part of the four-man crew that finished second at the Lake Placid World Cup meeting in 2013.

On the 22 and 23 February 2014, Tasker represented Great Britain in the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, in the four-man bobsleigh; racing in the first team along with Stuart Benson, Joel Fearon and pilot John James Jackson in GBR1. It was his debut Olympics.

In November 2017 at Park City, Tasker finished third in a four-man World Cup race alongside Bradley Hall, Joel Fearon and Greg Cackett.

After a career in which he competed at six World Championships and an Olympics, in October 2018 Tasker announced his retirement from competition.

In March 2020, he took part in BBC1 cooking show MasterChef.