Curt

Tomasevicz

Quick Facts

• Earned his bachelor and Master's of Science degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Astronomy from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Named an Academic All Big XII in 2002 and played football for the Cornhuskers from 2000-2003
• Inducted into the USOPC Hall of Fame, Class of 2025

Biographical Information

Curt Tomasevicz began the sport of bobsled in 2004. Just two years later, he placed sixth in four-man with driver Steven Holcomb at the Olympic Winter Games Torino 2006.  In 2007, Tomasevicz won a world cup gold medal with Holcomb in two-man on the same Olympic track. During the first half of the 2008-09 season, he has pushed Holcomb to silver and bronze world cup medals in four-man and a gold medal at the 2009 four-man national championships. Tomasevicz has earned the reputation as one of the most powerful push athletes in the world.

Team Night Train, the 2010 U.S. four-man bobsled team, made history at the Olympic Winter Games Vancouver 2010 by winning gold and ending a 62-year drought in the event, Team USA’s first Olympic title since 1948. The team earned its medal at the Whistler Sliding Centre, known for its challenging course and infamous Turn 13, where six sleds crashed during the first two runs. Before Vancouver, the team won gold at the 2009 world championships in Lake Placid, marking the first U.S. victory in that event in 50 years and setting the stage for their Olympic triumph. They were later featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated, marking only the second time bobsledding appeared on the magazine’s cover. The four were named Team USA’s Team of the Year in both 2009 and 2010, the first to earn the honor in back-to-back years, a feat not repeated until the U.S. women’s hockey team in 2017 and 2018. Throughout their journey, the team supported pilot Steven Holcomb as he battled and overcame a degenerative eye disease first diagnosed in 2002. The procedure he would go through, C3-R, would eventually be renamed to Holcomb C3-R, marking the first time a medical procedure was named after an Olympic athlete. 

Olympic Experience

• 3-time Olympian; 1-time Olympic medalist (1 silver)
  • Olympic Games Turin 2006, 6th (4-Man Competition - Men)
  • Olympic Games Vancouver 2010, gold (4-Man Competition - Men)
  • Olympic Games Sochi 2014, silver (4-Man Competition - Men)