Kristan Bromley
Skeleton
DOB:07/03/72
Place of birth: Rossendale, Lancs
Currently living: Sheffield
Career highlight: Gold at the 2008 FIBT World Champs in Altenberg, Germany, Britains first gold medal at the FIBT World Champs since 1965.
Kristan has competed in 3 Olympic Games and was placed 5th at the Turin Olympics in 2006. He has twice won the mens overall Skeleton World Cup tile in the 2003/4 and 2007/8 seasons and Kristan was the first ever Britain in history to win all 3 titles in one season: World Championships, Overall World cup series and European Championships in 2008.
Kristan finished the 2009/10 World Cup season in 6th place overall with a bronze medal in Park City, USA and a silver medal in St. Moritz.
Nicknamed Dr Ice by the British media Kristan earned a PhD in Materials Engineering from the University of Nottingham in 1999 with a thesis entitled ‘factors affecting the performance of skeleton bobsleds’.
Kristan and his brother Richard set up the company Bromley Technologies Ltd, Kristian now lives, trains and works with his fiancé Shelley Rudman and their daughter Ella-Marie in Sheffield.
Kristan Bromley Photo Gallery
Bromley Technologies support a number of athletes from Shelley and Kristan to Nicola Minichiello in the bobsleigh in their Formula Ice 2010 programme. This sponsorship funded, high performance sports engineering initiative operates in a similar way to a mini formula one team and seeks to add value to athlete performance through technological innovation and expertise.
As well as riding and designing the technology of action board sports Kristan is a keen mountain biker and follows motocross.
In the current world cup rankings for the 2010/11season Kristan lies 2nd with 802 points only 17 points behind the current leader.