Lascelles Brown

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Lascelles Brown
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Brown at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Personal information
Born (1974-10-12) October 12, 1974 (age 50) [1]
May Pen, Clarendon, Jamaica [2] [3]
Medal record
Men's Bobsleigh
Representing Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Olympic Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2006 Turin Two-man
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2010 Vancouver Four-man
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2005 Calgary Two-man
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2007 St. Moritz Four-man
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2005 Calgary Four-man

Lascelles Brown (born October 12, 1974 in May Pen) is a Jamaican-born Canadian bobsledder who has competed for three countries since starting his career in 1999. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he is the first Jamaican-born athlete to win a Winter Olympic medal. [4]

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Brown was a member of the Jamaica national bobsled team from 1999 to 2004, [5] competing at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, as a brakeman for Winston Watt. The Jamaican duo set the track push record during those games. He continued training for bobsleigh at Calgary's Canada Olympic Park, where he met and married his wife Kara, a Canadian. [4] As of 2011, they have three daughters and a son together.

He applied for Canadian citizenship on July 28, 2005; [6] it was awarded to him by special exemption just prior to the 2006 Winter Olympics, [4] [7] enabling him to compete for Canada at the games in Turin. Brown is currently acting as the brakeman for Lyndon Rush in both the 2-man and 4-man event. Brown competed at the 2010 Winter Olympics together with Rush on their home track at the Whistler Sliding Centre, winning bronze in the four-man event. Brown had previously been competing with North America's most decorated bobsleigh pilot Pierre Lueders but the two had a falling-out and no longer compete together. Brown recently said that "I'd only do it if Jesus asked" when questioned if he would ever compete with Lueders again. [8]

Bobsleigh Canada coach Gerd Grimme described Brown as one of the top three brakesmen in the world, along with Beat Hefti of Switzerland and Germany's Kevin Kuske.

Beginning the 2010 season Brown became a competitor for Monaco, and was partnered with Monégasque Patrice Servelle. [9] [10] He stopped representing Monaco, returning as a competitor for Canada in 2012. [11]

Results

In the 2004–2005 season, Pierre Lueders and Brown won a world title, five World Cup medal finishes in two-man and three medal finishes in four-man.

In the 2006 Olympic Games, Lueders and Brown won a silver medal in the two-man event. [4] Brown also has a complete set of medals at the FIBT World Championships with gold in the two-man event (2005), a silver in the four-man event (2007) [12] and a bronze in the four-man event (2005).

In the 2010 Olympic Winter Games held in Vancouver, BC Lascelles Brown won the bronze medal along with his teammates Lyndon Rush, Chris Le Bihan and David Bissett.

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References

  1. ↑ "Athlete details - BROWN Lascelles". Torino 2006 - XX Olympic Winter Games. Archived from the original on September 7, 2006.
  2. ↑ "Welcome to Lascelles Brown's page". RealChampions.ca. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007.
  3. ↑ "Lascelles Brown". Canadian Olympic Committee . 16 December 2013. Archived from the original on March 1, 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Brown a beaming Canadian medallist". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation . February 20, 2006. Archived from the original on February 21, 2006.
  5. ↑ "Jamaican-born pusher wins silver for Canada". NBCOlympics.com . February 19, 2006. Archived from the original on May 20, 2006.
  6. ↑ "Jamaican bobsledder to compete for Canada". The Jamaica Observer . January 25, 2006. Archived from the original on March 2, 2006.
  7. ↑ "Homepage: Athletes: Lascelles Brown". NBCOlympics.com . Archived from the original on April 21, 2006.
  8. ↑ Starkman, Randy (11 November 2009). "Starkman: I'd only do it if Jesus asked, says Olympian". Toronto Star . Retrieved January 13, 2010.
  9. ↑ Gary Kingston (26 November 2010). "New 'king' of Monaco sledding cashes in". Vancouver Sun . Retrieved November 28, 2010.
  10. ↑ "Monaco's Lascelles Brown and Patrice Serville". FIRSTPOST. 26 November 2010. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved November 28, 2010.
  11. ↑ "Lascelles BROWN - Olympic Bobsleigh | Canada". Sochi2014.com. Organizing Committee of the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games of 2014 in Sochi. Archived from the original on July 6, 2014. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
  12. ↑ "WCH 4 Men Bob St. Moritz: Results". FIBT . February 4, 2007. Archived from the original on 2014-01-04. Retrieved 2014-12-10.
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