- Olympic champion, four-man bobsled (2010). Two-time World Champion (2009, 2012).
- He won 60 World Cup medals in his career, 10 more at the world championships, and three in the Winter Olympics.
- He battled keratoconus, a disease which can cause blindness. His eyesight was saved by surgery that turned his 20-500 vision into something close to perfect.
- He was a member of the Utah Army National Guard and the Army World Class Athlete Program.
- Was diagnosed with keratoconus in 2001, a degenerative eye disease. He struggled with his blurred vision, but never stopped racing. He drove a bobsled by feel instead of by sight, giving him the ability to guide a sled with precision and grace down the mile-long iced tracks.
- Was known as one of the most decorated bobsled pilots in the world, earning 60 World Cup medals in his career, not including 10 World Championship and 3 Olympic medals (1 gold, 2 bronze), and 5 World Championship titles.
- Made history by breaking a 62-year medal drought at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, Canada after piloting the United States to a gold medal in the four-man event with Justin Olsen, Steve Mesler, and Curt Tomasevicz. Four years later at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, Holcomb did it again, only this time as the first American two-man sled to earn a medal in 62 years, a bronze, with brakeman Steve Langton.
- Passed away in his sleep at the Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, New York. He was 37 years old.
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