On 29 January 2010, Kristan was officially announced as part of the Team GB Skeleton Bobsleigh squad to compete at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada.

Other squad members included Adam Pengilly, with Shelley Rudman and Amy Williams in the women's competition.

Nicknamed Doctor Ice by the British media because he earned a PhD from the University of Nottingham in 1999 with a thesis entitled "Factors affecting the performance of skeleton bobsleds".

He was the coach of Dutch skeleton racer Kimberley Bos when she won the bronze medal at 2022 Winter Olympics.

Kristan Bromley, known as "Dr Ice", graduated with a BEng in Mechanical Design, Materials and Manufacture from The University of Nottingham in 1994, before earning his Ph.D. in materials engineering after writing a thesis called Factors Affecting the Performance of Skeleton Bobsleigh Bromley is married to Shelley Rudman, who won the silver medal in the women's skeleton event at the 2006 games in Turin.