Evan Neufeldt

Sport:Skeleton
Birth Date:Jun. 16, 1987 (age 37)
Birth Place:Saskatoon
Residence:Calgary
Twitter:@evanneufeldt
Instagram:@evanneufeldt
Website:teamevan.ca

Evan began his skeleton journey in 2010 after a shoulder repair forced a break in his University education, and varsity track and field career. He competed in indoor Pentathlon (2007-2010) at the University of Saskatchewan. 

Evan had quite a run inn track, making nationals regularly where he went on to place 12th, 8th, 8th respectively. He also competed in decathlon at the 2009 Canada Summer Games, finishing 6th.

Hailing from the prairies, Evan has always loved the mountains, and traveling downhill at speed - first tobogganing and later skiing, then his brother taught him to snowboard! His dad facilitated and encouraged annual ski trips to the Rockies which led him to living and working at Sunshine Village in Banff for one year.

He took a skeleton orientation course in 2010, and first competed on the World Cup in 2014-15. His best World Cup result was 8h. He competed at the 2016 and 2015 World Championships, and was an alternate for Canada at the 2022 and 2018 Olympics. 


Battling health issues, Evan took a break from the sport for two years in 2018 and returned to the University of Saskatchewan to work towards a Bachelor Studio Art degree (sculpture/printmaking). 

He was diagnosed with left temporal lobe epilepsy in 2019 and lost his drivers license, but worked his way back to skeleton in 2020, ad back onto the World Cup one year later.

Evan appreciates the support of the international sliding community through his journey, and partnering with other nations on Tour to get him to races around the world. He is driven to show epileptics and other folks they can push forward to overcome obstacles. Epilepsy Canada president Gary Collins has been a mentor for Evan, and sliding coach Joe Cecchini has helped me to make my way back to the top of the pyramid in Canadian sliding. 

Evan has always been involved in competition, briefly playing piano, and occasional art entrees in early elementary school, then fastball, football, ultimate frisbee, and track and field. 

His party trick is a back flip, and his hero is Elon Musk because he’s working on solving epilepsy while also building rockets.

Career Highlights

 

  Gold Silver Bronze Other
2023 - World Championships, St. Moritz, SUI      

11th (Skeleton Mixed Team Competition)

27th (Men's Competition)

2021 - Europe Cup - Igls, AUT       10th
2021 - Europe Cup - Winterberg, GER       

12th
7th

2021 - North America's Cup, Whistler, CAN    
2021 - First Place Team Selections       
2017 - Intercontinental Cup, Calgary, CAN  

 

10th 

2016 – World Championships, Igls, AUT

 

    25th
2015 - World Cup, St Moritz, SUI       8th
2015 - World Championships, Winterberg, GER       

23rd

2014 - North America's Cup, Lake Placid, USA      9th
2013 - North America's Cup, Park City, USA       

4th 
5th 

World Championship Results

Season
Location
Discipline,
Result
2022/23
St. Moritz, SUI Skeleton Mixed Team Competition 11th
    Men's Skeleton 27th
2015/16
Innsbruck, AUT Men's Skeleton 25th
2014/15
Winterberg, GER Men's Skeleton 23rd

World Cup Results

 

Season
Location
Result
2022/23
   
  Altenberg, GER 23rd
  Altenberg, GER 18th
  Winterberg, GER 20th
  Park City, USA 17th
  Whister, CAN 13th
2021/22
   
  St Moritz, SUI  27th
  Winterberg, GER 28th
  Sigulda, LAT 24th
2016/17 
   
  Pyeongchang, KOR  23rd
2015/16
   
  Whistler, CAN  22nd
2014/15
   
 
Sochi, RUS 19th
  Innsbruck, AUT  21st
  St Moritz, SUI 8th
  Koenigssee, GER 19th
  Altenberg, GER  19th

Intercontinental Cup Results

 

Season
Location
Result
2017/18
   
  Altenberg, GER 11th
    14th
  St Moritz, SUI 18th
    27th
  Calgary, CAN 10th
    6th
  Whistler, CAN  10th
    5th
2016/17
   
  Lake Placid, USA  17th 
    16th 
  Calgary, CAN 2nd
    10th
  Koenigssee, GER 6th 
    7th 
  Innsbruck, AUT  9th
    9th
2015/16
   
  Koenigssee, GER 9th
    10th
  Innsbruck, AUT 9th
    8th
  Whistler, CAN 6th
    8th
  Lake Placid, USA  9th
    11th
2014/15
   
  Wintergberg, GER 8th
  Koenigssee, GER 8th
    10th