Lamin Deen

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Lamin Deen
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Deen in 2020
Personal information
NationalityBritish
Born (1981-06-17) 17 June 1981 (age 43) [1]
London, England [1] [2]
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight100 kg (220 lb; 16 st)
Sport
CountryFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom
SportBobsleigh pictogram.svg Bobsleigh (pilot)
Event2 man 4man
ClubGB Team

Lamin Deen (born 17 June 1981) is a British bobsleigh pilot and Grenadier Guardsman. [1] He qualified for the 2014 Winter Olympics in both the 2-man (in which he raced with John Baines) and 4-man disciplines. [3]

Deen was born in London into a family which originally hailed from Sierra Leone. He moved to Manchester at the age of nine. [2] He grew up in the city's Moss Side and Withington areas and was a pupil at Burnage High School before joining the Grenadier Guards, serving in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Kosovo. [2] He represented the British Army in athletics, boxing and basketball before competing in bobsleigh. [4]

Deen scored a new personal best finish in the Bobsleigh World Cup in January 2014 when he (along with Stuart Benson, Bruce Tasker and Joel Fearon) [3] finished in 11th place in the four-man event at a meeting held at the Igls track. [2] Deen finished 19th in the four man event at the 2014 Winter Olympics [5] and 23rd in the two man competition. [6]

Deen enjoyed a strong start to the 2014-15 season, scoring a third and a first place in the opening two four man races of the Americas Cup at the Park City track [7] and winning another race at the following meeting at the Calgary track. [8] At the 2015 FIBT World Championships, Deen led crews to fifth place in the four-man event, [9] 14th in the two-man event [10] and eighth along with the rest of the British squad in the team event. [11]

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