Pierre Lueders
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Olympic medal record
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Pierre Lueders (born 26th September 1970 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a top-level bobsledder. He pilots both two-man and four-man bobsleigh.
A three-time olympian, Lueders is the most decorated slider in Canadian history and the only man to ever win 5 overall world cup titles in two-man bobsleigh. In the past 15 years he has had 69 World Cup podium finishes and 7 World Cup overall medals. He was the pilot of the Canadian two-man bobsleigh team, winner of the gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics. This was only Canada's second ever medal in bobsleigh. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City Lueders placed a disappointing 5th place finish in two-man, and 9th in four-man, causing him to take the 2002-03 season off in four-man. In the 2005-06 World Cup he was the champion in both the combined and the two-man event. Lueders also won the World Championships in 2004 and 2005 in the two-man event.
In 2006, he turned down the offer to carry the Canadian flag during the Opening Ceremonies of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. During the two-man event he and his brakeman Lascelles Brown won silver having to contend with heavy snowfall.
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