Chris Soule (born February 5, 1973) is an American
skeleton racer
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who competed from 1993 to 2006. He won two medals in the men's skeleton event at the
FIBT World Championships
The IBSF World Championships (known as the FIBT World Championships until 2015), part of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation, have taken place on an annual basis since 1930. Starting with 2002, championships of non-Winter Olympi ...
with a silver in
2003 and a bronze in
1997
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. Soule also won the overall men's
20023 Skeleton World Cup title with multiple World Cup victories that season. He is the 3-time U.S. National Champion and remains one of the most decorated Skeleton athletes in the history of the sport.
Competing in two
Winter Olympic Games
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, Soule earned his best finish of seventh at
Salt Lake City
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in
2002, during which he was nominated for the Olympic Spirit Award as the U.S. Skeleton Team Captain. He retired after the
2006 Winter Olympics
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in
Turin
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.
References
2002 men's skeleton resultsFIBT profileOfficial websiteWorld Cup results and brief stats
External links
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1973 births
American male skeleton racers
Living people
Sportspeople from Connecticut
Skeleton racers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Skeleton racers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Olympic skeleton racers of the United States
20th-century American people
21st-century American people
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