Mike Kohn
 Kohn in 2013 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Born |
May 26, 1972 (age 44) Columbia, South Carolina, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 98 kg (216 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Bobsleigh | ||||||||||||||||||
| Club | George Mason Patriots, Fairfax; U.S. Army | ||||||||||||||||||
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Michael "Mike" Kohn (born May 26, 1972) is an American former bobsledder who has competed since 1990. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the four-man event at Salt Lake City in 2002 as a push athlete for pilot Brian Shimer.[1][2]
He also won a silver medal in the mixed bobsleigh-skeleton team event at the 2007 FIBT World Championships in St. Moritz.[1]
Kohn retired from competition after the 2010 Winter Olympics. He was appointed as an assistant coach by the United States Bobsled and Skeleton Federation in 2011.[2]
Kohn is also an Infantry Captain in the United States Army. A native of Columbia, South Carolina, he now lives in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina with his wife Jessica, and two sons, Oliver and Max Kohn.
He is the brother of Nick Kohn, an actor in the Tony Award winning musical Avenue Q on Broadway.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 "Mike Kohn". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
- 1 2 "USA Bobsled hires Mike Kohn as coach". espn.go.com. 15 June 2011. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mike Kohn. |
- Mike Kohn at TeamUSA.org
- Mike Kohn at the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
- Michael Kohn: U.S. Army profile at the Wayback Machine (archived May 13, 2007)
- CNN Sports Illustrated profile of 2002 US bobsled team
- Announcement of the US Olympic men's bobsleigh team. U.S. Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation. January 17, 2010. Accessed 18 January 18, 2010.
- Bobsleigh four-man Olympic medalists for 1924, 1932–56, and since 1964
- Mixed bobsleigh-skeleton world championship medalists since 2007