Evan Weinstock

Weinstock was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada.[1] His father, Arnold Weinstock, is Jewish. His mother was not. He told Jewish Sports Review that he was raised without a faith, but he had no problem being identified as a Jewish athlete.[1][2]

He played high school football as a wide receiver/safety and was the Nevada 4A Football Player of the Year at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas.[3][1][4] He became involved in bobsledding by virtue of his participation in the decathlon.[1][5] His football career ended in high school with a torn labrum that he suffered on a running play.[4]

At Brown University (2014), where he majored in Biology, Weinstock set the university record in the decathlon (7,393 points), is second in university history in the pentathlon (5,296 points), and was a four-time Ivy League champion (three times in the decathlon, once in the heptathlon).[6][1][5][7][8]

At the IBSF 2016 Bobsled World Championship Team Event with pilot Justin Olsen, he came in 10th in Igls, Austria.[5] At the IBSF 2017 World Championship in Koenigssee, Germany, in the Two-Man with pilot Justin Olsen, he came in tied for 11th, and in the Four-Man for pilot Justin Olsen, he came in 11th.[5]

He competed for the United States in the two-man event at the 2018 Winter Olympics.[9] He and his team came in ninth place in the four-man bobsled, in 3:17.28, and came in 14th in the two-man bobsled.[10]