David Bissett (bobsleigh)

David Bissett ( born September 29, 1979 in Edmonton, Alberta ) is a Canadian bobsledder.

David Bissett, actually running back in the Canadian Football team the University of Alberta, until mid-November 2005 came to bobsledding. Three months later, he took up at the Olympic Games in Turin in both the two - ( 11 ) and in the four-man ( 18 ) from pilot Serge Despres. Prior to the Games, he played only five World Cup races, all. To 2006/07 season he joined the Bob of world-class pilot Pierre Lueders in January 2006. During the season, he finished in any World Cup race with his participation a worse position than the sixth. In Koenigssee he won in Lueder 's four-man bobsleigh for the first time a World Cup. In the overall World Cup, he finished with Lueders second place in the two - and the third spot in the four-man event. In the Bob World Championships 2007 in St. Moritz the double was seventh in the four-man, in the two Lueders team won the silver medal.