Lascelles Brown

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Lascelles Brown at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, at the award ceremony (bronze medal in the four-man bobsleigh)

Lascelles Oneil Brown (born October 12, 1974 in May Pen , Jamaica ) is a Canadian- Jamaican bobsledder .

Brown started for the Jamaican bobsleigh team from 1999 to 2004 . At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, he set a new start record.

Since he saw no more prospects in terms of competitive sport in Jamaica, he moved to the team of Canadian Pierre Lueders . Together with him, he won four World Cup races in the 2004/05 season (three in the two-man and one in the four-man bobsleigh). At the 2005 World Cup in Calgary , he won the gold medal. In the 2005/06 season two more World Cup victories were added.

In July 2005, Brown applied for Canadian citizenship. This was granted to him shortly before the 2006 Winter Olympics due to a special arrangement. On the Olympic bobsleigh run in Cesana Torinese , he finished second with Lueders.

Lascelles Brown started with Lyndon Rush for Canada at the 2010 Winter Olympics on his home track at the Whistler Sliding Center . In the second run of the two-man bobsleigh competition, the two-man bobsleigh, with which he and Lyndon Rush had set a new starting time, fell back to 21st place after finishing third in the first run in the second run. On February 27, 2010 he was a member of the Rush team when they won the bronze medal in the four-man bobsleigh behind Steven Holcomb and André Lange .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Olympic Winter Games 2010 in Vancouver, two-man bobsleigh competition, results of the 2nd run