Wray & Nephew White Overproof Rum has announced its support of the Jamaica Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation for the remainder of the 2021-2022 season.
Over the years, the successes of the Jamaica bobsleigh team have reverberated in the hearts of Jamaicans. From recalling Team Jamaica’s remarkable feat over 29 years ago, which inspired the 1993 movie Cool Runnings, to the presence of a Jamaican team, representing the bold, black, green, and gold colours of the National Flag, at these Winter Olympics has been a source of pride for Jamaicans globally.
This partnership, alongside its sponsorship of Reggae Month, marks another cultural milestone for Wray Rum as Jamaica marks its 60th anniversary of Independence.
Pietro Gramegna, marketing director, J. Wray & Nephew Limited, says his team is honoured to lend its support to the federation.
“Wray & Nephew White Overproof Rum is an integral part of the fabric of Jamaican culture, and we believe that it is important for us to lend our support to events that inspire Jamaicans and add to nation-building. We are proud to back the Jamaica Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation and look forward to great things from it and its team in its current and upcoming events,” said Gramegna.
The Jamaica Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation, led by CEO and President Nelson ‘Chris’ Stokes, a member of the original 1988 Jamaican bobsleigh team, is happy for the support.
“When the Jamaica Bobsleigh programme just started and we needed companies that believed in us, J. Wray & Nephew were there. They showed the way to the possibility that premium Jamaica products can be world class and gave us the opportunity to be world class also. We welcome them back on board as we go on a new journey of home-grown global excellence,” said a proud Stokes.
The current Jamaica Bobsleigh teams include pilots Shanwayne Stephens, Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian, Carrie Russell and push athletes Matthew Wepke, Rolando Reid, Ashley Watson Nimroy Turgott, Shadae Green and Audra Segree.
Thus far at these Winter Olympics, Turgott and Stephens finished 30th in the two-man bobsled, and Fenlator-Victorian finished 19th in the women’s monobob.
Jamaica’s sole entrant in the giant slolom, alpine skier Benjamin Alexander, finished 46th.