Kevin Kuske

Kevin Kuske

Kuske in 2018
Personal information
Nationality	German
Born	(1979-01-04) 4 January 1979 (age 45) Potsdam, East Germany
Height	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Sport
Country	Germany
Sport	Bobsleigh
Event(s)	4-man, 2-man
Club	BSR Rennsteig Oberhof (1999–2010) BRC Riesa (2010–present)
Achievements and titles
Personal best
Medal record Olympic Games 2002 Salt Lake City Four-man 2006 Turin Two-man 2006 Turin Four-man 2010 Vancouver Two-man 2010 Vancouver Four-man 2018 Pyeongchang Four-man World Championships 2003 Lake Placid Two-man 2003 Lake Placid Four-man 2004 Königssee Four-man 2005 Calgary Four-man 2007 St. Moritz Two-man 2008 Altenberg Two-man 2008 Altenberg Four-man 2005 Calgary Two-man 2009 Lake Placid Four-man 2011 Königssee Two-man 2012 Lake Placid Four-man 2004 Königssee Two-man 2007 St. Moritz Four-man 2012 Lake Placid Two-man 2017 Königssee Four-man European Championships 2002 Cortina d'Ampezzo Four-man 2004 St. Moritz Four-man 2006 St. Moritz Two-man 2007 Cortina d'Ampezzo Four-man 2010 Igls Four-man 2002 Cortina d'Ampezzo Two-man 2003 Winterberg Two-man 2006 St. Moritz Four-man 2008 Cesena Two-man 2010 Igls Two-man 2004 St. Moritz Two-man 2007 Cortina d'Ampezzo Two-man 2008 Cesana Four-man German Championships 2009 Winterberg Four-man 2009 Winterberg Two-man Men's athletics World Junior Championships 1998 Annecy 4 x 100 metres

Kevin Kuske (born 4 January 1979) is a former German bobsledder who competed from 1999 to 2018. Competing in five Winter Olympics, he is the most successful Olympic athlete in bobsledding, winning four gold medals and two silver medals.

Career

Prior to his bobsleigh career, Kuske was a sprinter athlete, and won a bronze medal in 4 x 100 m at the 1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics.

At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Kuske, along with teammates André Lange, Carsten Embach, Enrico Kühn, won the gold medal in the four-man event. Four years later in Turin, Kuske paired with Lange to win the gold medal in the two-man event, while those two, along with teammates René Hoppe and Martin Putze, won gold in the four-man event. Kuske won gold in the two-man and silver in the four-man event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Kuske also has fifteen medals at the IBSF World Championships, including seven golds (two-man: 2003, 2007, 2008; four-man: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008), four silvers (two-man: 2005, 2011; four-man: 2009, 2012), and four bronzes (two-man: 2004, 2012; four-man: 2007, 2017).

After pilot André Lange's retirement in 2010, Kevin Kuske started with pilots Thomas Florschütz and Maximilian Arndt. With Florschütz, he competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi in both the two-man and four-man event, but failed to win any medals. After Florschütz and Arndt retired, Kuske joined the team of Nico Walther. In Walther's bobsleigh, Kuske won a silver medal in the four-man event at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, therefore becoming the most successful bobsledder in Olympic history. Immediately after the Games, he announced his retirement.^[1]

References

1. "Potsdamer Kevin Kuske ist nun erfolgreichster Bobfahrer der Welt". BZ Berlin (in German). 25 February 2018. Retrieved 25 February 2018.

External links

• Kevin Kuske at the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
• Kevin Kuske at Olympics.com
• Kevin Kuske at Team Deutschland (in German)
• Kevin Kuske at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Bundswehr profile of Kuske (in German)
• Bobsleigh four-man Olympic medalists for 1924, 1932–56, and since 1964 at sports123.com
• Bobsleigh two-man world championship medalists since 1931 at sports123.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 29 September 2007)
• Bobsleigh four-man world championship medalists since 1930 at sports123.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 11 December 2007)