Justin Olsen

Justin Olsen
Full name	Justin Bradley Olsen
nation	United States
birthday	16th April 1987 (age 33)
place of birth	Lubbock , United States
size	186 cm
Weight	106 kg
job	soldier
Career
discipline	Bobsleigh
position	Pusher (2008-2014) Pilot (since 2014)
society	Air Force
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 3 × 0 × 3 ×
winter Olympics gold Vancouver 2010 Four-man bobsleigh  Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships gold 2009 Lake Placid Four-man bobsleigh bronze 2009 Lake Placid team bronze 2011 Königssee Four-man bobsleigh gold 2012 Lake Placid Four-man bobsleigh gold 2012 Lake Placid team bronze 2013 St. Moritz Four-man bobsleigh
Placements in the Bobsleigh World Cup
Overall World Cup foursome 1st ( 2009/10 )  Overall World Cup combination 1st ( 2009/10 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Two-man bobsleigh 0 2 3  Four-man bobsleigh 7th 7th 2

Justin Bradley Olsen (born April 16, 1987 in Lubbock , Texas ) is an American bobsleigh athlete who was active as a pusher between 2008 and 2014 and has been a pilot since 2014. He took part in the Winter Olympics three times for the United States between 2010 and 2018 , twice as a pusher and once as a pilot. As a pusher, he was Olympic champion and three-time world champion.

Career

Pusher

From the 2008/09 season Justin Olsen was part of Steven Holcomb's push team . He was used by Holcomb in both the two-man and four-man bobsleigh. He celebrated his first podium placement at the first World Cup of the season on the Winterberg bobsleigh track with third place in the four-man bobsleigh. At the World Cup on the Altenberg racing sledge and bobsleigh track , he and Holcomb took second place in the two-man bobsleigh and thus his first podium finish. He won the two four-man bobsleigh competitions on the Park City bobsleigh run together with Team Holcomb. As part of Team Holcomb, he was also allowed to take part in the 2009 Bobsleigh World Championships in Lake Placid . In the two-man bobsleigh competition, Holcomb preferred Curtis Tomasevicz to him and the two took third place. In contrast, Holcomb used him in team competition, where the American team can win the bronze medal. In the four-man bobsleigh competition, as part of the Holcomb team, he was able to win the gold medal ahead of the teams from Germany and Latvia.

The 2009/10 season was Justin Olsen's most successful season as a pusher. As part of Steven Holcombs' four-man bobsleigh, he won a total of three four-man bobsleigh World Cups. At the end of the season, the Holcomb team secured the four-man Bobsleigh World Cup and the overall World Cup. He was nominated by the United States Olympic Committee for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver and he was allowed to start in the four-man bobsleigh competition. Together with Steven Holcomb , Steve Mesler and Curtis Tomasevicz, he was Olympic champion in the four-man bobsleigh on the bobsleigh and racing sled track in Canada Olympic Park . After 62 years, a US four-man bobsleigh won this competition again.

After winning two four-man bobsleigh World Cups as part of the Holcombs team in the 2010/11 season , Justin Olsen started in the four-man bobsleigh at the 2011 Bobsleigh World Cup on the Königssee ice rink . Together with Steven Holcomb , Steven Langton , Curtis Tomasevicz he won the bronze medal. A year later, Steven Holcomb's team surprised after only two podiums at the 2012 Bobsleigh World Cup . Steven Holcomb won the two-man bobsleigh World Cup together with Steven Langton and the Holcomb team, to which Justin Olsen belonged, again won the four-bobsleigh world championship after 2009. He was also part of the US team, which was the team competition. For the first time, the German team did not win the team.

In 2012-13 Bobsleigh World Cup took Justin Olsen with the team Holcomb twice in second place and won at the FIBT World Championships 2013 at the Olympia Bob Run St. Moritz-Celerina in the four bronze. After the 2013/14 season , he again took part in the Winter Olympics. However, he did not start in Steven Holcomb's four-man bobsleigh, but in Nick Cunningham's four-man bobsleigh . This four-man bobsleigh finished the competition in twelfth place.

pilot

After the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , Justin Olsen ended his pushing career and began retraining as a bobsleigh pilot. When Bob Nordamerikacup 2015/16 he celebrated his first success as a pilot. On February 28, 2016, he won the first four-man bobsleigh race in Park City together with his crew Brent Fogt , Luis Moreira and Evan Weinstock . One day later, he took second place in the second four-man bobsleigh competition. On March 13, 2016 and March 14, 2016, he finished third and second in the two-man bobsleigh in Lake Placid .

Justin Olsen also started as a pilot for the first time in the 2015/16 season in the Bobsleigh World Cup . At the World Cup at the Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina he took 14th place in his first World Cup competition in the two-man bobsleigh, making him the best American. He took part in the 2016 bobsleigh world championship on the Igls bobsleigh rink and was allowed to take part in the team competition there. He started in the “International II” team and ended up in 10th place with the team.

In the 2016/17 season , Justin Olsen competed in almost all World Cups and was among the top 10 for the first time at the World Cup in Whistler . On December 2, 2016, he took seventh place in the two-man bobsleigh with his push-puller Evan Weinstock . At the World Cup in Innsbruck-Igls he missed his first podium place by 0.02 seconds and had to be content with fourth place. At the 2017 Bobsleigh World Championships on the Königssee artificial ice rink , he finished eleventh in the two-man bobsleigh competition, making him the second-best American. In the team competition, he took tenth place with the “United States II” team.

On November 10, 2017, Justin Olsen was able to celebrate a podium as a pilot in the Bobsleigh World Cup for the first time . In the second two-man bobsleigh competition in Lake Placid , he finished third behind his compatriot Codie Bascue and the Canadian Justin Kripps . After the 2017/18 season he was allowed to take part in the 2018 Winter Olympics for the first time as a pilot. His push team was made up of Christopher Fogt , Carlo Valdes and Evan Weinstock . In the two-man bobsleigh competition he started together with Weinstock and finished the competition as the best American two-man bobsleigh in 14th place. In contrast, he was the worst American bobsleigh with 20th place in the four-man bobsleigh.

family

Justin Olsen is in a relationship with the Canadian skeleton skier Mirela Rahneva . Like him, Rahneva took part in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang .

Web links

• Justin Olsen in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
• Justin Olsen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Justin Olsen in the teamusa.org database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jerry Brewer: ays after losing his appendix, Justin Olsen is happy to be back in his bobsled. The Washington Post , February 18, 2018, accessed February 26, 2018 .