Kevin Kuske

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Kevin Kuske

Kuske in 2018

Personal information

Nationality

German

Born

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]