Pierre Lueders

Pierre Lueders

Pierre Lueders (born September 26, 1970 in Edmonton , Alberta ) is a former Canadian bobsleigh driver .

Lueders is the son of German emigrants from Brandenburg who emigrated to Canada in 1957. He started in bobsleigh races in both two-man and four-man bobsleigh, but was only able to achieve his great success in two-man bobsleigh. His biggest win was winning the gold medal at the 1998 Olympic Games in Nagano in the two-man bobsleigh.

At the 2006 Games in Turin , he and his brakeman Lascelles Brown won the silver medal in the two-man bobsleigh when only André Lange beat him.

After the 2010 Winter Olympics (twice fifth) Lueders ended his career. He has been the coach of the Russian national bobsleigh team since 2012. As such, he accompanied them to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , where the Russians and their pilot Alexander Zubkov won two gold medals.

Lueders is married with two children and lives in Calgary .

Web links

• Pierre Lueders in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
• Pierre Lueders in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bob: Lueders leads Russia's bobsleigh pilots to Sochi. In: Focus Online . June 4, 2012, accessed December 1, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Four- man bobsleigh - German bobsledders remain without a medal. In: sueddeutsche.de . February 23, 2014, accessed December 1, 2015 .