Chris Fogt was born May 29, 1983, and is a Utah native, currently living in Alpine, Utah. He attended American Fork High School. Chris graduated from Utah Valley University with a degree in Business Managment. While at Utah Valley he ran track and field where he was team Captain for two years, and set an indoor school record in the 100-meter sprint (10.53), and in the 60-meter dash (6.92). [1] It was when he was competing in track and field that he was invited to try bobsledding. All the members of Chris’ bobsled team are track and field stars, leading to jokes associating them with the Disney movie, Cool Runnings.
Chris completed ROTC at Utah Valley and commissioned into the army as a 2nd LT in the Military Intelligence branch. One of his teammates is in the Army with him.
Chris Fogt began the sport of bobsled in 2007 after attending a camp in Lake Placid, N.Y., which is also where he tried out for his first team. Since then he has pushed for drivers on the America’s Cup and World Cup circuits. He is currently a member of the World Class Athlete Program. Vancouver will be his first Olympic competition. Chris was a World Cup push athlete in 2007-08 season for drivers Bosch, Mike Kohn and John Napier.
Immediately prior to the Vancouver Olympics, Chris trained in Park City, Utah. As of that pre-training, Park City was the site of the only injuries the team has suffered. Other than that bad luck, Chris considers the Olympic Park at Park City an excellent place to train. The track is fast with smooth turns. The track in Vancouver has the steepest slope in the world at the start, and more abrupt turns in the course. It’s an extremely fast track, however, and near the end, the wind whistles through their helmets. Christ says that bobsledding is like a wild, uncontrolled roller coaster ride, where the sledders pull G’s or feel weightless.
Chris’ team was ranked 2nd in the U.S. until the members had to shuffle places due to injury. The team dropped to 4th while making the adjustment.
Awards won:
- 2009-2010 World Cup as brakeman for Todd Hays & John Napier in the four-man
- 6th in Park City (11/09)
- SILVER in Lake Placid (11/09)
- 5th in Winterberg (12/09)
- 10th in Altenberg (12/09)
- BRONZE in Konigsse (1/10)
- 11th in St. Moritz (1/10)
- 13th in Igls (1/10)
- 2009-2010 America’s Cup as brakeman for Todd Hays in the four-man
- GOLD in Park City #2 (12/09)
- GOLD in Park City #3 (12/09)
- 4th at 2009 U.S. Bobsled Push Championship
- 2008-2009 America’s Cup in four-man
- BRONZE in Park City #1 (11/1)
- 5th in Park City #2 (11/2)
- GOLD in Lake Placid #1 (4/3)
- GOLD in Lake Placid #2 (4/4)
- 2008-2009 America’s Cup in two-man
- SILVER in Lake Placid (4/1)