Aidan Kelly (born September 6, 1994) is an American slider who raced for the United States in the men's luge singles event at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. [1] [2] He was the 2013 Norton junior U.S.A champion.
Aidan Kelly (born September 6, 1994) is an American slider who raced for the United States in the men's luge singles event at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. [1] [2] He was the 2013 Norton junior U.S.A champion.
Kelly attended National Sports Academy in Lake Placid, New York. He graduated top of his class in 2012 while he trained at the U.S. Olympic Training Center, also in Lake Placid.
Kelly resides in West Islip, New York. [3]
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Mark Grimmette is an American luger who competed from 1990 to 2010. Competing in five Winter Olympics, he won two medals in the men's doubles event with a silver in 2002 and a bronze in 1998. He was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Miroslav "Miro" Zajonc is a Slovak-born luger who competed for Czechoslovakia, Canada, and the United States. Competing for Canada, he won the gold medal in the men's singles event at the 1983 FIL World Luge Championships in Lake Placid, New York, in four record breaking runs. He represented the United States at the 1988 Winter Olympics.
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Erin Mullady Hamlin is a four-time Olympian and the first female American luger to medal at any Winter Olympics, as well as the first American of either gender to medal in luge singles competition and the first non-European woman to take an Olympic medal in luge. She took the singles bronze medal in Sochi's 2014 Winter Olympics, something the Associated Press called "a feat that will surely go down as perhaps the greatest moment in USA Luge history".
The FIL World Luge Championships 2009 ran on 1–8 February 2009 at the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track in Lake Placid, New York, United States for the second time after having hosted the event in 1983. They were awarded the event at the 2006 FIL Congress in Berchtesgaden, Germany.
The FIBT World Championships 2009, officially known as the Bauhaus FIBT Bobsleigh & Skeleton World Championships, February 20 to March 1, 2009, at the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track in Lake Placid, New York, for the ninth time, doing so previously in 1949, 1961, 1969, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1997 (skeleton), and 2003. Lake Placid was chosen 25–11 over Igls, Austria.
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National Sports Academy was a private preparatory school for winter-sport athletes in Lake Placid, New York, United States. The academy was closed in 2015.
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Zachary DiGregorio is an American luger. He competed in the doubles event and in the team relay event at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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