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Nick's Story
Fast Facts
Sport: Skeleton
Event: Men’s Skeleton
Olympic History: Beijing 2022
Highlights: PB at Beijing 2022, 3x World Championship Appearances, 2021 North Americas Cup Champion
Coach: Leonie Derby, Adam Wolski
Year Born: 1990
State Born: Western Australia
About Nick
Nick has been a relative late-bloomer to skeleton, starting in 2012 at the age of 20, but made an instant impact competing at the 2012 World Junior Skeleton Championships (13th) at Winterberg, Germany and the 2014 World Juniors (22nd) in Innsbruck, Austria.
His core body strength from a background in athletics and soccer worked in tandem with his goals to make it in skeleton racing.
Hailing from Perth, in February 2021 Nick made his third IBSF (International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation) World Championships appearance in Germany, finishing 25th, after representing Australia in 2015 and 2019.
He entered Beijing 2022 in solid form and as the overall men’s skeleton champion from the IBSF North American Cup.
By winning the last two races of the year in Lake Placid, USA, Nick pipped Spain’s Ander Mirambell who finished second overall and just two points behind.
It was a fitting reward for Nick, who finished 2nd to Andrew Blaser (USA) in the IBSF 2019 North American Cup overall standings.
In his first competition of 2022 Nick placed 11th in the Intercontinental Cup at Altenberg, Germany.
On his Olympic debut in Beijing he finished his campaign by putting down a Personal Best course time of 1:01.78 to finish 25th overall on combined time.
Throughout his career he has set two Australian records on the Igls (Austria) and Whistler tracks.
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