Jamie Greubel Poser

Olympic bobsleigh medalist Jamie Greubel Poser won the bronze medal in the two-woman event at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. The American won her first Bobsleigh World Cup medal two years earlier, and in 2017 she won a bronze medal in the two-woman event at the World Championships in Königssee.

The Massachusetts native is a former track star who excelled at Cornell University, setting college records in pentathlon and heptathlon. After being accepted into Lesley’s Graduate School of Education a former track teammate suggested that Poser tried bobsledding. The athlete found the swap from athletics track to twisting ice track disorientating at first but exhilarating and unlike anything she had ever experience before, and several experienced bobsledders soon noticed that she had serious potential. Poser headed to Calgary, Canada and Park City, Utah, where she developed a taste for real racing.

After training hard for months she made the US national team in the 2007-8 season, starting her career in the sport as a brakeman before making the switch to pilot in 2010. Two years later the bobsleigh star clinched her first Bobsleigh World Cup medal in Königssee, Germany, and in 2014 she made her impressive Olympic debut in Sochi winning a bronze medal. Poser competed in her second Winter Olympic Games in 2018 in Pyeongchang, finishing in fifth place in the women’s two event.