Having won 2-man bronze in Austria on Saturday, Hall and brakeman Greg Cackett combined with Nick Gleeson and Taylor Lawrence to reach the podium again.
The quartet clocked a combined time of 1:41.57 seconds as they tied for second place with veteran German pilot Johannes Lochner - the crew that beat them to silver on Saturday.
“It’s been a great weekend. We’ve done something that hasn’t been done for a very long
time,” said Hall.“We knew that we were capable of a result like this but it’s brilliant to put it together on race day and to make the podium for the first time together as a 4-man team.
“The boys were brilliant today - just as they were in training all summer & all autumn. We had the second best start times in both runs & that gave us the platform to compete.
“We said yesterday that we want to be in the mix for medals in the build up to the Olympics and today we’ve shown everyone what we’re capable of in the 4-man.
“I’m incredibly proud of the boys and I hope we’ve done the nation proud, too.”
The medal was the third of the season for Hall and Cackett, who also won silver in the 2-man at the Olympic Test Event in Beijing last month.
It was a first of World Cup medal for both Paratrooper Gleeson and Royal Marine Commando Lawrence.
Hall previously won 4-man bronze with Cackett, Bruce Tasker and Joel Fearon in Park City in November 2017, with GB’s most-recent 4-man medal coming with a gold for Lamin Deen, Andrew Matthews, Toby Olubi and Ben Simons in Whistler a week later.
Deen, Fearon, Olubi and Simons finished 21st in today’s race, missing out on a top-20 spot and a second run by seven hundredths of a second.
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