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Steve Mesler
American bobsledder (born 1978) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Steven Michael Mesler (born August 28, 1978) is an American former bobsledder.
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Mesler was born in Buffalo, New York, and is Jewish on his mother's side.[1] He attended City Honors School in Buffalo, graduating in 1996.
Mesler attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he competed as a decathlete for the Florida Gators track and field team from 1997 to 2000.[2] He graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree, with honors, in exercise and sports science in 2000.[3]
Mesler won a gold medal as a pusher for driver Steve Holcomb's U.S. Olympic team in the four-man event at the 2010 Winter Olympics.[4] This was the first gold medal for the United States in 62 years.
Mesler's team finished seventh in the four-man event at Turin in 2006.[5] He won two medals in the four-man event at the FIBT World Championships with a gold in 2009, a first in 50 years for the United States, and a bronze in 2004.
In March 2011, he was inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame[6] and in October 2011 he was inducted into the Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame.[7]
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