Steve

Mesler

Not ready to give up competition and athletics after college, Steve Mesler found bobsledding on the internet and began the sport in 2001. In 2002, Mesler was named as an alternate for the Olympic Winter Games Salt Lake 2002. In 2006, he placed seventh in four-man with driver Todd Hays at the Olympic Winter Games Torino 2006. After Torino, Mesler joined Steve Holcomb's four-man team and finished the 2006-07 season with three gold medals and two silver medals, placing the team second in the four-man overall world cup standings.  

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.