Kevin Kuske
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Born | (1979-01-04) 4 January 1979 (age 45) Potsdam, East Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Club | BSR Rennsteig Oberhof (1999–2010) BRC Riesa (2010–present) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
- ^ "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 the Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund (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)
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- 1932: Hubert Stevens & Curtis Stevens (USA)
- 1936: Ivan Brown & Alan Washbond (USA)
- 1948: Felix Endrich & Friedrich Waller (SUI)
- 1952: Andreas Ostler & Lorenz Nieberl (GER)
- 1956: Lamberto Dalla Costa & Giacomo Conti (ITA)
- 1964: Anthony Nash & Robin Dixon (GBR)
- 1968: Eugenio Monti & Luciano de Paolis (ITA)
- 1972: Wolfgang Zimmerer & Peter Utzschneider (FRG)
- 1976: Meinhard Nehmer & Bernhard Germeshausen (GDR)
- 1980: Erich Schärer & Joseph Benz (SUI)
- 1984: Wolfgang Hoppe & Dietmar Schauerhammer (GDR)
- 1988: Jānis Ķipurs & Vladimir Kozlov (URS)
- 1992: Gustav Weder & Donat Acklin (SUI)
- 1994: Gustav Weder & Donat Acklin (SUI)
- 1998: Pierre Lueders & David MacEachern (CAN)
1998: Günther Huber & Antonio Tartaglia (ITA) - 2002: Christoph Langen & Markus Zimmermann (GER)
- 2006: André Lange & Kevin Kuske (GER)
- 2010: André Lange & Kevin Kuske (GER)
- 2014: Beat Hefti & Alex Baumann (SUI)
- 2018: Justin Kripps & Alexander Kopacz (CAN)
2018: Francesco Friedrich & Thorsten Margis (GER)