Gordy Sheer

Gordon "Gordy" Sheer (born June 9, 1971 in White Plains , New York ) is a former American luge rider .

Gordy Sheer and his partner Chris Thorpe were one of the most successful two-seater luge riders in the 1990s. He took part in the Olympic Games three times. For the first time he started with his partner Thorpe at the Albertville Games in 1992 (12th place). This was followed by participation in 1994 (5th place) in Lillehammer and 1998 in Nagano , where the doubles behind the Germans Stefan Krauße and Jan Behrendt and ahead of their fellow compatriots Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin won the silver medal and thus the first Olympic luge medal for the USA.

At the Luge World Championships in 1995 in Lillehammer and 1996 in Altenberg , he won the silver medal with Sheer. After Thorpe / Sheer finished third in the overall World Cup ranking in the 1994/95 and 1995/96 seasons , they won the overall ranking of the Luge World Cup 1996/1997 . It was the first victory of non-European tobogganists in the overall World Cup. Double came fourth twice more. Four times they were able to win World Cup races. In the 1994/95 season, the double came on the podium in ten out of eleven races. He won the title of US champion six times, between 1992 and 1995 and 1997 and 2000.

2000 Sheer resigned, his partner Thorpe continued his career at the side of Clay Ives . Sheer is now Marketing Director for the US Luge Association and lives in Lake Placid .

successes

World Cup victories

Two-seater

No.	date	place	train
1.	Feb 11, 1995	Sigulda	Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track
2.	0Dec. 1, 1996	Sigulda	Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track
3.	Dec 15, 1996	Altenberg	Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run
4th	Dec 22, 1996	Koenigssee	Combined artificial ice rink at Königssee

Web links

• Gordy Sheer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )