| Position | Push Athlete |
| Height Weight |
6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) 209 lb (95 kg; 14 st 13 lb) |
| Pro clubs | USA Bobsled (2002–2008) |
| Nationality |  United States |
| Born | February 22, 1976 , Akron, Ohio |
| Pro career | 2002-03 – present |
| Website | Official Site |
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Bobsleigh | ||
| World Cup | ||
| Gold | 2007-08 World Cup | USA 1 Four Man Team |
| Gold | 2007-08 World Cup | USA 1 Four Man Team |
| Silver | 2007-08 World Cup | USA 1 Four Man Team |
| Silver | 2007-08 World Cup | USA 1 Four Man Team |
| Gold | 2006-07 World Cup | USA 1 Four Man Team |
| Gold | 2006-07 World Cup | USA 1 Four Man Team |
| Silver | 2005-06 World Cup | USA 1 Four Man Team |
| Gold | 2006-07 World Cup Overall Season | USA 1 Two Man Team |
| Silver | 2006-07 World Cup Overall Season | USA 1 Four Man Team |
| Silver | 2006-07 World Cup | USA 1 Four Man Team |
| Gold | 2006-07 World Cup | USA 1 Two Man Team |
| Silver | 2006-07 World Cup | USA 1 Two Man Team |
| Silver | 2006-07 World Cup | USA 1 Two Man Team |
| Gold | 2005-06 World Cup | USA 1 Four Man Team |
| Silver | 2005-06 World Cup | USA 1 Four Man Team |
Brock Kreitzburg (born February 16, 1976) is an American bobsledder who has competed since 2001.
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Career Biography
A graduate from the University of Toledo and a native of Akron, Ohio, Brock has been in the US Bobsled program since 2001.
Perseverance and dedication to the sport is something that Brock has had to prove constantly and with his selection to the 2006 US Olympic Team he was able to dispel the disappointment of being dropped from his ride at the 2005 World Championship by his then partner Steve Holcomb of the USA 2 bobsled. While the USA 2 bobsled. While the USA 2 bobsled did not fare well without Brock, this moment in his life led him to vow for Torino that “I WILL NOT BE LEFT AT HOME” and his rededicated the World Cup 2005-06 season to be one of the world’s best. The 05-06 season saw Brock become one of the most constituent pushers on the World Cup scene.
With success at hand, USA 1 bobsled driver Todd Hays came knocking on Brock’s door and invited him to join his team and he then graduated from the #2 team to the #1 team for the lead up to and during the Torino Games.
At the 2006 Games, he appeared in the Cleveland Plain Dealer & Cleveland.com as an athlete correspondent and was a frequent on-air personality on NBC with multiple appearances on the Today Show and appeared on the Tonight Show in a bit with 3 teammates and Tom Green. As a member of the Home Depot program, Brock took part in a satellite media tour Torino back to the US. Brock was a member of the Home Depot Olympic Job Opportunity Program and worked with Home Depot since 2002 until they ended the program & their sponsorship of the US Olympic Team in March of 2009. Following the Games, Brock was an occasional host of local programming for the NBC affiliate in Cleveland.
The 2006-07 season, saw a changing of the guard with USA 1 and the sled was now driven by former USA 2 teammate Steve Holcomb. The season gave Brock as Steve’s pushman the greatest success collectively they had ever seen and the 2 of them won the World Cup 2-man championship. Additionally, the 4-man team that Brock was a member of finished 2nd overall. The 2 & 4 man teams collected eight medals during the season.
The 2007-08 campaign was not as smooth as the previous season and Brock focused much of his time towards being a member of the 4-man team and he was able to pick up another 2 Gold and 2 Silvers during the season.
During the 2007-08 off season, Brock participated in the NASCAR Nationwide Series as a member of Stanton Barrett’s pit crew. Brock will work with the pit crew again during their 2009 season in the spring.
Heading towards Vancouver, Brock is a solid contender for a slot on the USA 1 bobsled and a contender for a podium shot for the United States.
Brock has had to take the 2008-09 season off to have surgery that will allow him to be 100% for the 2009-10 season and is expected to have a full recovery. He is currently in training at the US Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, California.
The prudent move was to take care of it prior to the Olympic year to be in optimal shape for Vancouver and just as in 2005, his same motto applies again I WILL NOT BE LEFT AT HOME, but this time “we need to take better advantage of the situation in front of us and win an Olympic medal.”
World Championship Biography
Competed for the United States in Six World Championships
USA 1: 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08
USA 2: 2003-04, 2004-05
USA 3: 2002-03
Collegiate Biography
Brock graduated from the University of Toledo. He competed in athletics in the decathlon and football as a wide receiver. Kreitzburg earned a Masters of Divinity degree from the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in 2002.
Accomplishments & Notes
2008-09 Did not compete due to injury and will return to competition in the Summer of 2009
2007-08 Participated in the NASCAR Nationwide Series as a member of Stanton Barrett's pit crew
2006-07 Overall Two Man Team World Cup Champion (driver Steve Holcomb)
2006-07 Overall Four Man Team World Cup Runner-Up (driver Steve Holcomb)
2006 Finished Seventh Overall with USA 1 (driver Todd Hays) Four Man Team at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin
2006 Named to the US Olympic Team - USA 1 Bobsled
Jan 1, 2006 Appeared in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, CA
2001 Became a member of the USA Bobsled Team
1999 Attended mini-camp for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
1998-99 All-Conference Wide Receiver at the University of Toledo
Media/National Publicity Biography
February 2009 Quoted nationally in USA Today, Wall Street Journal & the AP regarding Home Depot's elimination of the Olympic Job Opportunity Program that benefitted the rank and file US Olympic athletes ability to live, work and train for their sport in a meaningful way via Home Depot's US Olympic Committee sponsorship
Summer 2006 WKYC Cleveland Morning Show - Guest Host (multiple occasions)
February 20, 2006 NBC Tonight Show with Jay Leno (Skit with Tom Green)
February 13, 2006 Home Depot Satellite Media Tour - Televised throughout the United States
February 2006 Appeared on the Today Show as an Athlete Correspondent
February 2006 Athlete Correspondent for the Cleveland Plain Dealer & Cleveland.com
Personal
1998 graduate of the University of Toledo, B.A. Elementary Education
2003 graduate of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Masters, Divinity
Home Depot Biography
As a member of the US Olympic Team's Olympic Job Opportunity Program, Brock amongst hundreds of other OJOP athletes was able to work at a variety of Home Depot locations throughout the United States and then be able to earn an honest wage while being able to still do all of what was needed to train for the World Cups, World Championships and ultimately the Winter Olympics. Through this program that Home Depot had been committed to from 1992, the program netted over 100 Olympic Medals to the United States and hundreds more in World Cup and World Championships for both Summer and Winter sports.
Brock worked in the Paint Department.
Additionally, Brock took part in events where the Home Depot would ask OJOP participants to represent themselves and the company. This included the 2006 Tournament of Roses Parade on the Home Depot float.
This is an incomplete list, but these are some of the stores that Brock was able to work at while a member of the Home Depot program:
The Home Depot in Wadsworth, Ohio The Home Depot in Colorado Springs, Colorado
References
- FIBT profile
- FIBT World Championships 2007 two-man results
- FIBT World Championships 2007 four-man results
- US Olympic Committee profile
- List of combined men's bobsleigh World Cup champions: 1985-2007
- List of four-man bobsleigh World Cup champions since 1985
- List of two-man bobsleigh World Cup champions since 1985
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