Steven Holcomb

Steven Holcomb ( born April 14, 1980 in Park City, Utah) is an American bob pilot.

Career

Holcomb was eight years active in youth alpine ski racer as. In 1998 he moved to the Bobsleigh and since then a member of the U.S. national team. This year he competed in the Bob Brian Shimer in Calgary his first World Cup race. The best placement was a sixth place with James Herberich in his hometown of Park City. In the winter of 1999/2000 he was included in the Utah National Guard in the Army World Class Athlete Program, the sports development program of the U.S. Army. He was brakeman of the pilot Todd Hays, won in the summer in Monte Carlo, the start-up world championship in four and the four championship of the United States. At the World Championship 2000 in Altenberg, he was 13th in the World Cup he came with Hays to tenth place. In the 2000 /01 season, he worked as a brakeman, was with Mike Dionne at two World Cups on the road and drove to Lake Placid to sixth place. A year later, he went for the first time as a pilot at the start. At the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, he was employed as forerunners.

2003-2007

In the season 2002/ 03 he won the Bob - America's Cup six out of eight races and was second twice. His first notable success was the tenth place with the four-man event at the Bob World Championships 2003 in Lake Placid. At the Junior World Cup in Koenigssee, he was in two seventh and four in the sixth. A season later he was in the World Cup in two and in the combined score 15 in four 14th at the World Championship 2004 in Koenigssee, he was in two and four respectively in the twelfth. In the season 2004/ 05 he repeatedly enter ranks in the top ten. In the four-man bob World Cup he finished seventh in the two 18 and in combination eleventh. The 2005 World Championships in Calgary he finished in four eighth and two in the 18 The 2005/06 season he played in two of the three different brakemen Brock Kreitz Castle, Curtis Tomasevicz and Bill Schuffenhauer. In two he was at the World Cup race in Cortina d' Ampezzo with Kreitz castle surprising fifth and end up in the overall ranking 13th in the four-man event at the home World Cup in Lake Placid and sixth in the overall standings at the end of ninth. The highlight of the season was the Olympic Winter Games in Turin. Here he started in both Bobklassen and was sixth in the four-man and 14th in the two-man bob.

His final breakthrough Holcomb in the post-Olympic season 2006/07. First he won in Cortina d' Ampezzo his first World Cup race in the four-man and then the two races in Igls and Cesana. In the overall World Cup, he reached the second place behind Evgeni Popov. Even in the two- he won this season in Cortina his first World Cup race in Cesana also a runner. Due to the higher number of victories he was also winner of the overall World Cup standings ahead of the same point- Canadian Pierre Lueders. In the Bob World Championships 2007 in St. Moritz, he missed fourth with both Bob's a medal.

After Holcomb's vision through the eye disease keratoconus was severely restricted, this could be having an operation in 2007 restored.

2008-2011

In the first World Cup race of the season 2007/2008 in Calgary, he defeated the German André Lange in two and won the quad. In the overall standings, he was in a two- and four fourth and third in the combination. At the World Championship 2008 in Altenberg, he finished tenth in the two, sixth in four and third in the USA team. In the 2008 /09 season, he won two World Cup races in four. In the end he finished ninth in the overall standings in the fourth and four in the combination. When Bob World Cup in 2009 in Lake Placid, the U.S. pilot won the gold medal in four-man bobsleigh.

The rating in the World Cup of the season 2009/10 won Holcomb, three of the eight races he won. At the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver was Holcomb Olympic champion in the four-man event and reached its greatest international success. In the two-man bob, he finished sixth. In the season 2010/11 he won with his team of four two World Cup races in Whistler and Lake Placid.

From 2012

In the season 2011/12 season he still succeeded neither in two of four in a victory, only a second place in the four and a second and a third place in two. In two, he was ninth overall, in four and in combination Seventh. But with the 2012 World Championships in Lake Placid, he won three world titles. With brakeman Steven Langton he was first world champion in the two-, also victorious with Justin Olsen, Steven Langton and Curtis Tomasevicz in the four-man and was with the U.S. team. At the 2013 World Championships in St. Moritz, he won the bronze medal in the four-man bobsleigh and finished in fourth place. At the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014 he won the bronze medal with two Bobs.