Dan Steele

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Olympic medal record
Bobsleigh
Bronze	2002 Salt Lake City	Four-man

Dan Steele (born March 12, 1969) is an American bobsledder and athlete who has competed from the early 1990s to 2002. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won the bronze medal in the four-man event at Salt Lake City in 2002.

A native of Moline, Illinois, Steele graduated from Eastern Illinois University with a degree in sociology. During the 1990s, he also competed in atheltics first in the 400 m hurdles and later in the decathlon, qualifying for the United States Olympic trials for the 1992, 1996, and 2000 Summer Olympics, earning his best finishes of fifth in the 400 m hurdles in the 1992 trials and fifth in the decathlon in the 2000 trials. Steele even finished eighth in the decathlon at the 1999 World Athletics Championships in Seville, Spain.

In 1992, Steele moved from Illinois to Eugene, Oregon and became a volunteer athletics coach for the University of Oregon. In between coaching stints, Steele competed in bobsleigh for the U.S. both in 1998 and 2002. At the 2002 Winter Olympics, he earned a bronze medal in the four-man event.

Retiring from bobsleigh after the 2002 Winter Olympics, Steele is now an assistant athletics coach at the University of Oregon.

His twin brother, Darrin, also competed in athletics. Steele is married with one son.

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• Bobsleigh four-man Olympic medalists for 1924, 1932-56, and since 1964
• CNN Sports Illustrated profile of 2002 US bobsled team
• University of Oregon profile