Cleveland Athletes Who Have Competed in Past Winter Olympic Games

Kelli Stack, a graduate of Cuyahoga Heights High School, won silver medals as a standout forward for the U.S. women's hockey team at the Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010 and in Sochi, Russia, in 2014. 

Brianne McLaughlin of Elyria also played for the women's hockey team at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics and again at the 2014 Sochi Winter Games.

Brock Kreitzburg, a bobsledder from Akron, competed in 2006, the last time the Winter Games visited Italy. He later became a correspondent.

Brian Currutt, a skier from Chesterland, represented the U.S. in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. He took sixth in aerials, a freestyle event.

Betsy Youngman of Cleveland skied in the 1988 Calgary Games and in the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France. She also earned a PhD in physics and material science.

Scott Koons of Cleveland speed skated in the 1998 Olympics in Japan. He later broke a world record as a cyclist. 

Hayes Alan and David Jenkins, two brothers from Akron, trained at Cleveland Skating Club and ruled world figure skating in the 1950s. Read the brothers' full story.

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