Nathan CRUMPTON

American Samoa

Skeleton

Date of Birth: 9 Oct 1985

Age: 36

Gender: Male

Place of birth: NAIROBI

Birth Country:

Kenya

Residence: PARK CITY, UT

Residence Country:

United States of America

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Skeleton	Men	19

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Men Official Training Heat 1	Finished
After Heat 1	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Men Official Training Heat 2	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Men Official Training Heat 3	Finished
After Heat 3	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Men Official Training Heat 4	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Men Official Training Heat 5	Finished
After Heat 5	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Men Official Training Heat 6	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Men Heat 1	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Men Heat 2	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Men Heat 3	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Men Heat 4	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

Historical Results

World Championships
Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
8	Men	2016	Igls, AUT, AUT	3:32.12
18	Men	2020	Altenberg, GER	3:49.61
18	Men	2017	Koenigssee, GER	3:28.53
22	Men	2021	Altenberg, GER	2:55.46

World Cup Rankings
Season	Men
2021/22	42
2020/21	34
2018/19	34
2017/18	39
2016/17	11
2015/16	16

World Cup - Best Achievements
Season	Men
2021/22	1 x 24th
2020/21	1 x 15th, 1 x 20th
2018/19	1 x 14th

Ten Best World Cup Performances in Current Season
Rank	Event	Season	Location	Result
24	Men	2021/22	St. Moritz, SUI	1:08.42

Hobbies:

Surfing, snowboarding, skiing, mountain biking. (crumptonskeleton.com)

Occupation:

Photographer since 2005, started shooting sports for The Daily Princetonian. Modelling since 2011. (nbcolympics.com)

Education:

Sociology and Environmental studies - Princeton University (Boston, MA)

Languages spoken:

English

Other sports:

Athletics: NCAA Division I track & field athlete (triple jump). Princeton’s third farthest triple jumper. Ran the 100m at Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Debut:

2015 World Cup in Altenberg (24th), for USA
2020 World Cup in Innsbruck (15th), for ASA

Injuries:

October 2017: Back injury left him unable to walk without debilitating pain. (Facebook, 17 Oct 2017)

July 2015: Knee surgery (teamusa.org, 10 Feb 2016)

National team:

2015 (USA), 2019 (ASA)

Start:

After moving to the Rocky Mountains in the United States of America, he picked up skeleton as a way to fill that competition void after university, qualifying for his first USA national team in 2014. (nathancrumpton.com)

Reason:

After watching skeleton on television during the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, as an adrenaline junkie, he said he had to try the sport. Was living in Colorado, at the time and drove to Park City, Utah to watch a practice session and attended a combine in the summer of 2011. Was invited to compete in the push championships in Lake Placid, New York in November 2011 as a push athlete for pilot Codie Bascue. Switched to skeleton by the next winter. (teamusa.org, 10 Feb 2016; ibsf.org, 10 Jun 2021)

Ambition:

"I would like to think that I'm a contender for a medal in every race as I work my way up towards the higher levels of the sport, with the Olympics as the ultimate goal." (abc.net.au, 22 May 2020)

Training:

Six months after running the 100m at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, he is competing at the Olympic Winter Games at Beijing 2022. Training for athletics and skeleton is similar despite the 100m being three times longer than the skeleton start. "I'd say there's probably a 50% overlap in the training that I'm doing, but there's a lot of different technique work between sprinting upright and sprinting in a bent position (for skeleton)." (ibsf.org, 10 Jun 2021)

Hero:

Sprinter Jesse Owens (USA), four-time Olympic champion (Berlin 1936). (ibsf.org)

Ritual:

Usually carries a six-pack of bagels with him as "emergency" calories. (nbcolympics.com)

Award:

USA Bobsled/Skeleton Rookie of the Year (2016)
Princeton University Myers Award (2008) - for highest GPA on the varsity track and field team
Princeton University Becky Colvin Memorial Award (2007) - for independent research

General Interest

SWITCHING ALLEGIANCE
Spent eight years with Team USA, but after internal disputes with the sport's governing body, decided to represent another country. Kenya, his birth country and where he grew up, was his first choice, but he was not granted a passport and eligibility to compete for them. Through his Polynesian family heritage (maternal grandmother) American Samoa welcomed him. (abc.net.au, 22 May 2020)

TV COMMENTATING
Made his skeleton television commenting debut in January 2017 in Winterberg, Germany, after asking the TV crew if he could join them in the booth for the women's race. (nathancrumpton.com)

SIX COUNTRIES, FOUR CONTINENTS
Grew up in six countries on four continents. Spent the first five years of his life in Nairobi, Kenya (where his father was stationed with the U.S. Foreign Service) before moving to Geneva, Switzerland. Has also lived in Harare, Zimbabwe, and Canberra, Australia. Graduated from Langley High School in northern Virginia, USA where he participated in three sports. Hawaii is the place where he feels most at home because most of his relatives are there. "And while I still continue to live the peripatetic athlete's life, where my 'home' is usually wherever my laptop is set up, Hawaii and the Polynesian islands will always be a home for my heart." (nathancrumpton.com)

Milestones

Made his Olympic Games debut at Tokyo 2020, running the 100m.

Competed in four skeleton World Championships (USA - 2016, 2017; ASA - 2020, 2021), with best finishes a pair of eighths (2016 individual, 2017 team).

Broke into the World Cup top-10, with a fifth in 2016 in Park City on his home track, and has since produced three more career top-10 finishes.

First American Samoan athlete to win a gold medal in a winter sport, when he had three at the 2019 North American Cup in Park City, UT. (sltrib.com, 11 Dec 2019)

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Legend

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