"Kristan Bromley" is a British skeleton (sport)/skeleton racer who has competed since 1996. He won the gold medal in the men's event at the FIBT World Championships 2008/2008 FIBT World Championships in Altenberg, Germany. This was Great Britain's first gold medal at the FIBT World Championships since FIBT World Championships 1965/1965.

Competing in two Winter Olympics, Bromley's best finish was fifth in the men's skeleton event at Turin in 2006 Winter Olympics/2006.

He has twice won the men's overall List of Skeleton World Cup champions/Skeleton World Cup title (2003-4, 2007-08 Skeleton World Cup/2007-08).

In 2008 he became the first man in history to win the World Championship, European Championship and World Cup in the same season.

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You just want it to happen naturally without really thinking about it. As soon as you starting thinking at 90 miles per hour, you start making mistakes. The idea is to get the right line ingrained.

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I knew a mistake on that turn costs you three-hundredths of a second. That's what cost me a medal.

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When we go home we can spend a bit of quality time together but from the point of view of the skeleton, we're professional about what we do. Sometimes we might not speak for a whole day, even though we're both at the track, because we are so into what we are doing.

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I'm more experienced and more confident this time around. I've never prepared for any event like I've prepared for this one. I have to manage the nerves and the expectation and stay relaxed.

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People look at skeleton and think it's just a bit of a laugh, going down the ice on a tea tray. But it's not. It's a technical sport, and you need athleticism.

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I'm really proud of our performances this week as a nation that doesn't even have its own track. But I'm gutted not to have got the medal and I'm getting more and more gutted the more I think about it.

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