Curtis Tomasevicz

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Curtis Tomasevicz Bobsleigh
Curtis Tomasevicz at the 2010 Winter Olympics medals in Vancouver
Curtis Tomasevicz at the
2010 Winter Olympics medals
nation United StatesUnited States United States
birthday 17th September 1980 (age 39)
place of birth Shelby
Career
discipline Four-man bobsleigh
position Pusher
society Nebraska Cornhuskers
status resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 3 × gold 1 × silver 5 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold 2010 Vancouver Four-man bobsleigh
silver 2014 Sochi Four-man bobsleigh
IBSF Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships
silver 2007 St. Moritz Mixed
bronze 2008 Altenberg Mixed
bronze 2009 Lake Placid Mixed
bronze 2009 Lake Placid Two-man bobsleigh
gold 2009 Lake Placid Four-man bobsleigh
bronze 2011 Königsee Four-man bobsleigh
gold 2012 Lake Placid Four-man bobsleigh
gold 2013 St. Moritz Mixed
bronze 2013 St. Moritz Four-man bobsleigh
Placements in the Bobsleigh World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup November 22, 2004
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Two-man bobsleigh 3 1 3
 Four-man bobsleigh 7th 6th 2
last change: end of career

Curtis Tomasevicz (born September 17, 1980 in Shelby ) is a former American bobsleigh athlete .

Career

Steven Holcomb with Ivan Radcliff, Brock Kreitzburg and Curt Tomasevicz during the 2005 US elimination races in the four-man bobsleigh on the Calgary track

Curtis Tomasevicz is part of Steven Holcomb's bobsleigh team as a pusher and also starts with Mike Kohn at times . It is used in both four-man and two-man bobsleigh.

Tomasevicz made his first international appearance in the 2004/2005 Bobsleigh World Cup . In the fourth race in Igls , Austria , he narrowly missed the podium in the four-man bobsleigh with fourth place. In Cesana he again achieved a placement in the top ten. In the Bobsleigh World Cup 2005/2006 , he missed the podium in all races, but always stayed in positions around the top ten. Best place was a sixth place in Lake Placid .

In the 2006 Olympic Games of Turin he took up with Holcomb in the four and finished sixth. At the 2007 Bobsleigh World Championship in St. Moritz , he competed with Kohn in the two-man (15th) and four-man bobsleigh (16th) and in the team competition held for the first time, where he won silver with the US team behind the German team. In February 2007 he won a World Cup race in the two-man bobsleigh in Cesana Pariol for the first time.

For the 2007/08 World Cup season he was able to achieve second place in the two-man bobsleigh behind the German André Lange and Kevin Kuske in the first race in Calgary together with Holcomb . In the following World Cup in Park City he won with Holcomb. In Lake Placid, too, the two managed to finish on the podium again with third place. At the end of the season, he was fourth overall with Holcomb.

At the 2008 Bobsleigh World Championships in Altenberg , he won the bronze medal with the US team in the mixed competition. The team repeated this success the following year at the 2009 Bobsleigh World Championships in Lake Placid. He also won his first world title in this discipline with the four-man bobsleigh. He took bronze in the two-man bobsleigh.

2010 Winter Olympics

On January 15, 2010 the US federation announced that it would start at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver with a two-man and a four-man bobsleigh. He won the gold medal with the four-man bobsleigh. The following World Cup season 2010/2011 began Tomasevicz with a victory on the Olympic track in Whistler in the four-man bobsleigh. He was also able to win in Lake Placid. However, he had to admit defeat to stronger teams in all other competitions. The best placings were two third places in Königssee and Igls.

He started the 2011/12 season with Steven Holcomb's team again with rather disappointing results, which is why Tomasevicz started in the European Bobsleigh Cup at the end of the season and won the four-man bobsleigh competition in Igls.

At the 2012 Bobsleigh World Championships in Lake Placid , he won the world title in the four-man bobsleigh with Steven Holcomb's team . In the 2012/2013 Bobsleigh World Cup , Park City won the two-man bobsleigh after finishing second in the four-man bobsleigh. In Lake Placid he was again in second place with the four-man bobsleigh team.

The team had to admit defeat at the 2013 Bobsleigh World Championship in St. Moritz and ended up only third. In the team relay, the Americans won the gold medal.

Private

Tomasevicz studied at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln , where he did his Bachelor and then his Master of Science in electrical engineering . Between 2000 and 2003 he played for the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers , the American football team at his university.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Curtis Tomasevicz - Results and Awards. Retrieved February 23, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Tomasevicz, Curtis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American bobsledder
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Shelby , Nebraska , United States