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Jill Bakken holds flowers aloft and enjoys her moment of triumph after winning the gold in the first-ever women's Olympic bobsled race 19 February. Her brakeman Vonetta Flowers is also being lifted by teammates on the left. Bobsleigh is an Olympic sport that is contested at the Winter Olympic Games.
Olympic silver medalists for the United States in bobsleigh (23 P) Pages in category "Olympic medalists in bobsleigh" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 247 total.
The United States teams, in the four-man bobsleigh event, won the country's first bobsleigh medals in 46 years. The 2002 Games also saw the first Winter Olympics gold medalists of African origin: Vonetta Flowers of the United States in the women's bobsleigh event, and Canada's Jarome Iginla in men's ice hockey. [3]
Kevin Kuske (left) and André Lange (pilot) are the most successful Olympic bobsledders, both have five medals, of which four are gold medals attained in three consecutive Olympics. Bogdan Musiol (brakeman) won seven Olympic medals (one gold, five silvers and one bronze in four consecutive Olympics).
Pages in category "Olympic gold medalists for the United States in bobsleigh" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Johannes Lochner and Georg Fleischhauer, of Germany, pose on the podium after winning the 2-man bobsleigh at the Bobsleigh World Cup in Innsbruck, Austria, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025.
Todd Dennys Hays (born May 21, 1969) is a former American bobsledder who competed from 1994 to 2006. Competing in two Winter Olympics, [1] he won the silver medal in the four-man event at Salt Lake City in 2002, breaking a 46-year medal drought for the US national bobsleigh team.
A total of four bobsleigh events were held, between 4 and 20 February 2022. In July 2018, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) officially added the women's monobob event to the program, increasing the total number of events to four. [1] The IOC also transferred six quotas from the men's events to the women's.