Bryan Leturgez

Bryan Leturgez (born 1962) is an American football player, track and field athlete and bobsledder who competed from 1987 to 1998.

A native of Indiana he attended Purdue University on a full ride football scholarship where he stayed for two years before transferring to Indiana State University on a track & field scholarship. He set the school records in the high jump 7' 1 3/4" and the 400IM hurdles. He also qualified and competed in the 1986 NCAA Track & Field Championships as well as the 1988 Olympic Track & Field Trials in the 400 IM hurdles. Leturgez's skills in both football and track led him to try out for bobsled in the fall of 1988 in which he made the World Cup team and competed for the next ten years.

In bobsled he earned numerous gold medals throughout his career. During the 1992-93 season he won 3 gold medals, one silver medal and one bronze medal in World Cups events . He was also part of the 4 man team that won the overall World Cup Championship that season. He took a bronze medal in the four-man event at the FIBT World Championships 1992|1993 FIBT World Championships in Igls, Austria. Leturgez competed in three Winter Olympic Games: 1992-Albertville,France, 1994-Lillehammer, Norway and 1998-Nagano,Japan. He was the team Captain for the 1992 Olympic Bobsled Team in which he earned his best finish of 11th in the four-man event at Albertville Winter Olympics. Leturgez also won 6 World Push Championships held in Monaco,Monte Carlo hosted by Prince Albert Grimaldi. Setting world records in the 1994 World Push Championships two and four man events.

Leturgez graduated from Indiana State University in 1991 with a Business Degree then went to work for Anheuser Busch in Riverside,CA before moving to Atlanta, Georgia to work for The Coca-Cola Company. After retiring from bobsled, he took a position with Interstate Johnson Lane a regional brokerage firm later named Wachovia Securities in Atlanta. In 2003 he took a job with Fisher Investments a private money management company based in Woodside, CA as a VP of Private Client Group in South Carolina where he currently resides.

He is married with 2 daughters.

References

* [http://sports123.com/bob/mw-4.html Bobsleigh four-man world championship medalists since 1930]
* [http://users.skynet.be/hermandw/olymp/stbobm4.html Four-man bobsleigh results: 1988-2002 Winter Olympics]
* [http://www.indstate.edu/news/archive/2002/feb/leturgez.html Indiana State University profile]
* [http://about.monster.com/olympic/pressroom/factsheets/resources/Bryan_Leturgez.asp Monster.com profile]