Kevin Bramble
Competition | 2021
Kevin began skiing recreationally in Pennsylvania’s Poconos at age 11. By 1994, he was a serious snowboarder and freeskier living in the Lake Tahoe area when a snowboarding accident left him paralyzed. He then taught himself to monoski and moved to Winter Park, Colorado to join the Winter Park Disabled Ski Team. He returned to the Lake Tahoe area soon after, having become a competitive ski racer.
Kevin was named to the U.S. Disabled Ski Team in 1998 after winning the super G at that year’s U.S. Disabled Alpine Championships. His strongest event was the downhill, beginning with a World Cup win on the Paralympic course at Snowbasin, Utah in 2001 . A year later, Kevin won the downhill gold at the 2002 Winter Paralympics in Salt Lake City, beating his teammate and fellow Hall of Famer Chris Devlin-Young by just 0.17 seconds. Two years later at the Disabled Alpine Skiing World Championships in Wildschönau, Austria, he again won gold in downhill. Two years after that, at the 2006 Winter Paralympics in Torino, Italy, He won his third straight major world downhill championship.
Kevin also embarked on designing and building multiple mono-ski prototypes that proved to be very popular with members of the U.S. Disabled Ski Team. At first, manufacturing the skis out of his garage in Truckee, California, Kevin eventually moved back to New Jersey so that his family could assist him in this new endeavor.
Kevin’s freestyle ski skills enabled him to join fellow Hall of Famer Monte Meier in the filming of the 2006 Warren Miller ski action movie, Off the Grid.
