Melrose’s Steve Langton headed to Olympics with US bobsled

epa04029198 Steven Holcomb (L) and Steven Langton of the USA are on their way to win the two-men competition of the Bobsleigh World Cup at the olympic ice canal in Innsbruck Igls, Austria, 18 January 2014. EPA/EXPA/PETER RINDERER EXPA/PETER RINDERER

By Eric Wilbur

January 21, 2014

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Pilot Steven Holcomb and brakeman Steven Langton of the United States competed in the first heat of the two-man bobsled World Cup in Lake Placid, N.Y. last month. Melrose native Langton was officially named to the US Olympic Bobsled Team this week, while his brother Chris, also a member of the US National Team, came up short in his bid for Sochi.
Steven Langton as a Globe All-Scholastic at St. John’s Prep in 2001.
Langton attended Northeastern University, where he ran track and field as a sprinter and a jumper. He used those athletics skills to help him hone his training in bobsledding after graduation.
Driver Steve Holcomb, left, celebrated with Langton following their gold medal win in the FIBT Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Cup race at in Lake Placid.
Holcomb and Langton on the podium after their two-man win at Lake Placid.
Holcomb celebrated the win by showing off his trademark Superman t-shirt.
From left to right, Holcomb, Curt Tomasevicz, Langton and Chris Fogt posed for a photograph after racing in the US four-man bobsled team trials last October. The four will race together in Sochi next month in the USA-1 sled.
Fogt, Holcomb, Langton and Tomasevicz celebrated their win in the four-man bobsled World Cup event in Lake Placid, N.Y. last month.
Langton showed off his medal after his team’s win in the four-man at Lake Placid.
Cory Butner, Charles Berkeley, Adam Clark and Chris Langton competed in their first run of the four man competition during the FIBT Bob & Skeleton World Cup at Bobbahn Winterberg.
Langton posed for a portrait during the USOC Media Summit ahead of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.
Langton posed for a portrait during the USOC Media Summit ahead of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.
Holcomb, left, and Langton of the U.S. celebrated on the podium after the two-man race at the Bob World Cup in Innsbruck, Austria in January.
Holcomb helped snap a 62-year Olympic gold medal drought for the Americans in 2010, and won both the four-man and two-man bobsled world championship titles in 2012
This will be the second Olympics for Langton, who competed in bobsled at the 2010 Winter Games.
The United States’ USA-2, piloted by John Napier, front, with brakeman Langton, started the third run during the men’s two-man bobsled final competition at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Whistler, British Columbia.
The USA-2 sled, with John Napier (front), Charles Berkeley, Steven Langton and Christopher Fogt, at the start at the first run of the four-man Bobsleigh World Cup competition in the Bavarian resort of Schoenau am Koenigssee January 10, 2010.