Steve Holcomb steered the USA 1 to the American's first Olympic four-man bobsleigh triumph in 62 years at the Whistler Sliding center on Saturday.

Holcomb and his crew held on to a comfortable lead in the third run down the track and cruised to become the first American quartet to win the gold in the showcase sliding event since 1948 in St Moritz, Switzerland. "Smokin" Francis Tyler won the last U.S. bob medal 62 years ago.

Andre Lange drove Germany 1, who was in third and 0.54 seconds trailing USA 1 after three runs, one place forward for the silver in the last heat, 0.38 seconds behind the winners.

Canada 1, with Lyndon Rush at the helm, was in second position, 0.45 seconds off the pace, before the fourth and final run, but faltered to a slim one hundredth second slower for the last place of podium.

"It's incredible. We've been working so hard the last four years and it's finally paid off," said Holcomb.

"I saw this gold medal all the way back in 1994. That's when I really knew I wanted an Olympic gold medal."

On ending United States 62-year bobsleigh gold medal drought, Holcomb said: "no more 62 years. We'll start the clock over. Now it's going to be four years."

Holcomb and his company had underpinned their quest with a track record second effort of 50.86 seconds to hold pole position by 0.4 seconds over Canada 1.

They added another 0.005 seconds to their overnight margin in heat three, by which time it was effectively all over for Lange and the Canadians.

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