Evan Weinstock (born October 30, 1991) is an American Olympic

bobsledder Bobsleigh or bobsled is a team winter sport that involves making timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Feder ...

Early life

Weinstock was born and raised in

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, Nevada."The Tribe at the Winter Olympics: 2018 Edition" - ''St. Louis Jewish Light''
/ref> His father, Arnold Weinstock, is Jewish. His mother was not. He told ''

Jewish Sports Review ''Jewish Sports Review (JSR)'' is a bi-monthly magazine that was established in 1997. Its editors are Ephraim Moxson and Shel Wallman. The magazine identifies which star and professional athletes are Jewish. It also covers and has all-time lists ...

'' that he was raised without a faith, but he had no problem being identified as a Jewish athlete.

High school football

He played

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as a wide receiver/safety and was the Nevada 4A Football Player of the Year at

Del Sol High School Del Sol Academy of the Performing Arts, commonly known as Del Sol High School, is a nine-month public high school in Las Vegas, Nevada and is part of the Clark County School District. Del Sol was one of three schools (including Canyon Springs a ...

in Las Vegas."2018 Winter Olympics: 'Football players are really bobsledders'"
/ref> He became involved in bobsledding by virtue of his participation in the

decathlon The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word "decathlon" was formed, in analogy to the word "pentathlon", from Greek δέκα (''déka'', meaning "ten") and ἄθλος (''áthlos'', or ἄθ ...

."Evan Weinstock"
/ref> His football career ended in high school with a torn

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that he suffered on a running play.

College, decathlon, pentathlon, and heptathlon

At Brown University (2014), where he majored in Biology, Weinstock set the university record in the

(7,393 points), is second in university history in the

pentathlon A pentathlon is a contest featuring five events. The name is derived from Greek: combining the words ''pente'' (five) and -''athlon'' (competition) ( gr, πένταθλον). The first pentathlon was documented in Ancient Greece and was part of t ...

(5,296 points), and was a four-time

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champion (three times in the decathlon, once in the

heptathlon A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek επτά (hepta, meaning "seven") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "competition"). A competitor in a hep ...

Bobsled career

At the IBSF 2016 Bobsled World Championship Team Event with pilot

Justin Olsen Justin Bradley Olsen (born April 16, 1987) is an American bobsledder who has competed since 2008. He won two medals at the 2009 FIBT World Championships in Lake Placid, New York, with a gold in the four-man and a bronze in the mixed team even ...

, he came in 10th in

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, Austria. At the IBSF 2017 World Championship in Koenigssee, Germany, in the Two-Man with pilot Justin Olsen, he came in tied for 11th, and in the Four-Man for pilot Justin Olsen, he came in 11th. He competed for the United States in the two-man event at the

2018 Winter Olympics The 2018 Winter Olympics ( ko, 2018년 동계 올림픽, Icheon sip-pal nyeon Donggye Ollimpik), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (french: Les XXIIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; ko, 제23회 동계 올림픽, Jeisipsamhoe Donggye Ollimpi ...

. He and his team came in ninth place in the four-man bobsled, in 3:17.28, and came in 14th in the two-man bobsled.">"Las Vegas' Weinstock finishes ninth in four-man bobsled at Olympics" – ''Las Vegas Review-Journal''
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Weinstock, Evan 1991 births Living people American male bobsledders Olympic bobsledders of the United States Bobsledders at the 2018 Winter Olympics American male decathletes American pentathletes American heptathletes Brown Bears men's track and field athletes Jewish American sportspeople Jewish male athletes (track and field) Sportspeople from Las Vegas 21st-century American Jews 21st-century American women