Chris Spring

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Chris Spring Bobsleigh
Full name Christopher Spring
nation CanadaCanada Canada AustraliaAustraliaAustralia 
birthday 6th March 1984 (age 36)
place of birth Darwin , Australia
size 183 cm
Weight 100 kg
Career
discipline Two-man bobsleigh, four-man bobsleigh
position pilot
Trainer Quin Sekulich
National squad since 2010 (Canada)
2008–2010 (Australia)
status active
Placements in the Bobsleigh World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup 2011
 World Cup victories 2
 Overall World Cup two 3. ( 2017/18 )
 Overall World Cup foursome 4. ( 2013/14 )
 Overall World Cup combination 5. ( 2013/14 , 2017/18 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Two-man bobsleigh 2 1 2
 Four-man bobsleigh 0 0 4th
last change: January 31, 2018

Christopher "Chris" Spring (born March 6, 1984 in Darwin , Northern Territory , Australia ) is an Australian- Canadian bobsleigh athlete .

Career

Chris Spring grew up in Australia and is of Filipino descent. He discovered bobsleigh at the age of 23 during a year-long stay in Calgary , where he now lives. From 2008 he competed in his first two-man bobsleigh competitions in the America's Cup , where he already reached podium positions at the end of 2008. In 2009 he took part in the World Championships in Lake Placid for the first time and finished 29th. After another season in the America's Cup, he represented his native Australia at the Olympic Games in Vancouver , where he finished 22nd in the two-man bobsleigh on the Whistler track , which was the last place among the rated participants.

After the 2009/10 season, Spring moved to the Canadian Association and played another season in the America's Cup , where he won five races and was the overall winner in the two, four and combination rankings. In February 2011 he made his debut in the World Cup with rank 17 in Cesana Torinese and entered the World Championships in Königssee , where he finished 19 in two, 14 in four and 7 in team competition. In the following season he reached several top 10 places in the World Cup in the first half of the season, but injured himself in a fall in Altenberg and had to pause for several months. After his return to the World Cup, Spring celebrated his first podium finish in a four-man with third place in Whistler in November 2012 , and a year later he achieved the same result in a two-man on his home track in Calgary. He established himself as the top 10 rider in the World Cup in these two winters and was sixth at the 2013 World Bobsleigh Championship in the two-man bobsleigh with Lascelles Brown . In 2014 he took part in the Olympic Games again in Sochi , now for Canada . He finished there in two with Jesse Lumsden on seventh and in four in 13th place.

In the 2014/15 season, Chris Spring first won a race in the North American Cup and then, as in the previous year, contested all races of the World Cup . His best results of the season were several tenth places in the four-man bobsleigh before he finished eighth in the big sled at the World Championships in Winterberg . In 2015/16 he started the winter again with a victory in the North American Cup and after double-digit results at the start of the season in Whistler in the two-man bobsleigh with Lascelles Brown, he initially achieved a shared fifth place and a day later his first World Cup victory .

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personal data
SURNAME Jump, Chris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spring, Christopher (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian-Canadian bobsleigh athlete
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Darwin , Northern Territory , Australia