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Adam Edelman

Adam "A. J." Edelman is an American-born Israeli sliding athlete who competed for Israel in skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympics and in bobsleigh at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

born 1991Israel's first Olympic skeleton racerOlympian in two different sportsFirst Orthodox Jew at Winter Olympics

Born: 14 March 1991, Boston
Occupation: product manager, skeleton racer, bobsledder
Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Maimonides School, Yale School of Management

Adam Edelman was born in 1991 in Boston

Edelman was born in Boston and grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts, in a Modern Orthodox Jewish home. His mother Cheryl is a lawyer and his father Elazer Edelman is an engineer, scientist and cardiologist. His older brother is the comedian Alex Edelman.

He played ice hockey as a goaltender from childhood, including for the MIT team. He studied at a yeshiva in Beit Shemesh in 2010. He graduated from MIT in 2014 with a degree in mechanical engineering.

Edelman first tried skeleton in Lake Placid in 2014 and taught himself the sport without a coach, using online videos. In 2016 he left his job as a product manager at Oracle to train full time, and he immigrated to Israel that year. He trained at the Wingate Institute and competed for Israel in 2 World Championships.

At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang he finished in 28th place in skeleton. He later moved to bobsleigh and failed to qualify a team for 2022. In 2023 he won Israel's first sanctioned bobsleigh podium, and his team competed at the 2026 Winter Olympics.