Lee Johnston
Lee Johnston (born 16 June 1972) is an English bobsledder who has competed since 1995. Competing in three Winter Olympics (1998, 2002, 2006) he earned his best finish of tenth in the two-man event at Salt Lake City in 2002.
Johnston also finished fifth in the four-man event at the 2007 FIBT World Championships in St. Moritz.
Johnston's brother, Karl, is a crewman in the event. Both brothers come from Whitby, in North Yorkshire.
Johnston and his crew, were not selected for the squad at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, despite winning the trial races in Germany and Switzerland in 2009.
Johnston has competed in over 10 world championships 3 Olympic games over 60 world cup races and he is a 12 time British champion.
Johnston Finished his competitive career in 2010 having not been selected for Vancouver 2010, he then became a development coach for British Bobsleigh team with his focus been on the first Youth Olympic games In Innsbruck 2012 where the Team of Mica Mcneill and Jazmin Sawyers finished in Silver medal position.
Johnston then assisted at all levels through the next 4 years from senior and Junior world Championships and then assisting with the coaching team for John Jackson and his team to a Bronze medal in Sochi 2014 in the four man event.
Again doing the second Youth Olympics where he has the Pleasure of coaching his oldest son George Johnston along with 5 other talented athletes,This programme had huge success finishing before the Youth games ranked 1 -2 - 3 in the females and 1 -3 04 in the males in their series of races having both male and female Number one ranked athlete in the world leading into the Lillehammer Youth Olympics in 2016, Kelsea Purchall finished in 3rd Bronze medal position and George Johnston finished 6th.
He also coached Mica Mcneill and Mica Moore to a Gold Medal in Winterberg at the Junior World Championships in 2017
Johnston was made the Head Coach on September 2017, 22 weeks before the Pyeongchang Olympic games where Mica Mcneill and Mica Moore also finished the Olympic with the best ever female result after having their funding removed earlier that year.
Johnston has been the Head coach through a difficult time in 2017-2019 but over those two seasons on the World cup, Lamin Deen, Brad Hall and Mica Mcneill have all gained their best ever results with their teams.
Due to funding Johnston was released by British Bobsleigh in July 2019 but was re-employed in October as a Consultant Coach and Manager hoping to carry on the work that has already been done with the senior three pilots.
On a side not his youngest son has been selected for the 3rd Youth Programme, making him the fourth member of the Johnston family to represent Great Britain.