Steve Mesler

Steve Mesler
nation	United States
birthday	27th August 1978 (age 42)
place of birth	Buffalo , United States
Career
status	resigned
Medal table
winter Olympics gold 2010 Vancouver Four-man bobsleigh
Placements in the Bobsleigh World Cup
Debut in the World Cup 2001
last change: March 9, 2020

Steve Mesler (born August 27, 1978 in Buffalo ) is a former American bobsleigh athlete .

Career

Steve Mesler lives in Calgary and is trained by Brian Shimer . He has been driving the bobsleigh since 2001. First he was a push for Todd Hays for a long time . With this he was mostly among the world's best in both two-man and four-man bobsleigh.

He won four times in the Hays four-man World Cup races. At the 2004 Bobsleigh World Championship in Königssee , he won the bronze medal in the Hays four-man bobsleigh, and in 2005 in Calgary the team came in fifth. Highlight of the season the following year were the 2006 Olympic Games of Turin where Mesler in Hays-four seventh.

The following season , after Hays' resignation, Mesler himself began to become active as a pilot. After initial success with top placings in the America's Cup, however, the disillusionment quickly came with back placements in the World Cup. So in the second half of the season he mostly drove as a pusher again, now in Steven Holcomb's bobsled . He was also able to achieve great successes with him, including two World Cup victories in the four-man bobsleigh. At the 2007 World Cup in St. Moritz , he just missed a second World Cup medal in the Holcomb bobsleigh.

The start of the 2007/08 season was successful again, in Calgary he won his seventh World Cup race in the Holcomb four. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , Mesler won the gold medal as Steve Holcomb's pusher. This was the first gold medal in bobsleigh for the USA in 62 years.

Awards

• USOC Athlete of the Year (USA): 2009, 2010

Web links

• Mesler at Bobsleighsport
• Mesler on the website of Team Holcomb
• Mesler at Sportresult
• Mesler on the US Association's website