Bree Walker has come agonisingly close to winning Australia’s first-ever bobsled World Championships medal, finishing fourth in Winterburg in Germany.

In a sport where margins of victory are routinely decided by fractions of a second, Walker missed out on a maiden World Championships medal by just seven hundredths of a second.

Walker, who finished in fifth at the Beijing Winter Olympic Games in 2022, was sitting in second spot after three runs.

However, her fourth and final run was only good enough for seventh, which saw the 31-year-old miss out on a medal in heartbreaking fashion.

She, in turn, edged Romania’s Andreea Grecu into fifth by just five hundredths of a second. 

Germany’s Olympic champion Lisa Buckwitz claimed bronze, who was leading at the half way mark only to be upset during her third run by snow on the course.

“I was a bit unlucky with bib number one in the third run,” Buckwitz said.

“I couldn’t have raced any better, but the time was still bad. That’s just the sport sometimes.

“Nevertheless, I didn’t expect to finish third in the end.”