Chris Soule

Chris Soule ( born February 5, 1973 in Trumbull ) is an American skeleton bob.

Chris Soule, who was trained by Orvie Garrett, debuted in early 1996 at a race in Altenberg in the World Cup 12 His second race in La Plagne finished it already in fifth place. In 2002, he won his first World Cup race in St. Moritz. Three times Soule won World Cup races. This was followed by good results in the World Cup. 1999/2000 he was second in the overall standings behind Andy Böhme, 2001/ 02 behind Gregor Stähli. 2002/ 03 he won the World Cup overall standings. 2003/ 04, he finished fourth.

At World Championships Soule took first in 1996 in Calgary and was part 13 Just a year later he was in Lake Placid his first international medal, a bronze medal win. 1998 in St. Moritz Soule was seventh in 2003 he won silver in Nagano behind Jeff Pain. In Koenigssee he was fifth a year later, in 2005 in Calgary eighth. Soules greatest success in North America Championships in 1998 winning the silver medal behind Ryan Davenport. A national championship was Chris Soule 2000 and 2002 U.S. champion, 2003, he won silver behind Brady Canfield. In addition, a silver medal comes at the Goodwill Games in Lake Placid in 2000.

In 2002, the sport of skeleton was first recorded in 1948 again at the Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City the Olympic program, Soule was next to Lincoln DeWitt and Jim Shea in the squad of the U.S. team and was seventh. Initially for the Games four years later he failed to qualify for the U.S. preliminaries to. Nevertheless, he was appointed shortly before the opening of the games in the squad because he nachrutschte for for doping excluded Zach Lund. At the end Soule was 25 and thus third from bottom.

In the movie GI Jane Soule plays the training partner of embodied Demi Moore protagonist.