Kris Horn

Quick Facts

• Position: Pilot
• Father, Ken, was a three-time letter winner as a linebacker for the University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Start bobsledding in 2018 after a successful track and field career at UMass

Biographical Information

Kris Horn grew up in Pembroke, Massachusetts, and excelled in track and field. He ended up as a high school All-American in various events, and his high school track and field coach was quoted in a local article about him: "I've never coached an Olympian, but I wouldn't be surprised if he became one (in track and field)."

Horn went on to college to compete in the decathlon, first at University of Connecticut and later finished his career at UMass, where he was a three-time conference champion in the heptathlon and decathlon. In 2018, with a nudge from his dad and his college coach, Horn tried out for the U.S. bobsled team. Horn made his Olympic debut at the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 as a push athlete and after the Beijing Games switched to being a pilot. 

Horn finished career-best seventh as a pilot in four-man bobsled at the 2025 IBSF World Championships in Lake Placid, New York, a result he duplicated at the test event in Cortina d'Ampezzo in November 2025, at the site that will host bobsled at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026.

Olympic Experience

• 1-time Olympian
  • Olympic Games Beijing 2022, 10th (4-Man Competition - Open)

World Championships Experience

• Most recent: 2025 – 7th (4-Man Competition - Open), 9th (2-Man Competition - Men)
• Years of participation: 2-Man Competition - Men 2024, 2025; 4-Man Competition - Open 2020, 2025; Team Competition - Mixed 2019
• Medals: 1 (1 bronze)
  • Bronze – 2019 (Team Competition - Mixed)