One of Canada’s most decorated bobsleigh athletes has made it into the BC Sports Hall of Fame.

Justin Kripps spent a lot of time with the national bobsleigh team. He is the first and only Canadian to date that has won Olympic medals in both the two and four-man bobsleigh events. The two medals came in Pyeongchang, in 2018, where he won gold in the two man event, and in 2022 he and the rest of Canada’s four-man bobsleigh team won bronze in Beijing.

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Outside of medaling, he has represented Canada at multiple Olympic games. He was at Vancouver in 2010, Sochi in 2014, Pyeongchang in 2018, and Beijing in 2022. He has also competed at the IBSF World Cup Tour, winning two Large Crystal Globes and eight runner-up Crystal Globes, due to him finishing second and third in the tour four times each.

During the IBSF World Cup, he won a total of 44 medals from tour events. This includes seven gold, fourteen silver, and twenty-three bronze medals. He also won five career IBSF world championship medals. Two silver medals, one in 2017 in Konigssee and one in 2019 in Whistler, and three bronze medals, 2012 in Lake Placid, 2015 in Winterberg and 2019 in Whistler.

After retiring, he hasn’t stepped away from the sport either. At the highest level, he was most recently in Milano-Cortina for the 2026 Olympic Games as a coach for Canada’s bobsleigh team.

The interesting part is that Justin was not born in Canada, instead he was born in Na’alehu, Hawaii. He moved to Canada at a young age, moving to Summerland in the Okanagan. From there he joined the athletics team at Simon Fraser University, where he competed in the 4×100 relay, with teammates Neal Hurtubise, Rob Drapala, and Brett Roinson.

With that team he won All-American honors, and a school record at the 2005 NAIA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. After his career in athletics, he decided to give bobsleigh a chance, due to it feeling like a mix of track and field, and race car driving.

Though later in his career he would be known as a driver, he initially started as a breakman. It wasn’t until after the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver that he decided to switch to driver, and since then, the rest is history.

You can expect to see Justin inducted into the BC Sports Hall Of Fame later this year in the fall, with the rest of the 2026 class.

If you want to learn more about the BC Sports Hall Of Fame, as well as the incoming class, you can click here.