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Lascelles Brown AKA King (born
October 12, 1974) is a Jamaican-born Canadian bobsledder who has competed since 1999 (Canada since 2004). Competing in
two Winter Olympics, he is the first
Jamaican-born athlete to win a Winter Olympic medal. He was born in
Clarendon, Jamaica.
Brown was a member of the Jamaica national bobsled
team from 1999 to 2004, 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 husband, Kyle, a
Canadian. As of 2009, they adopted three daughters together.
He applied for Canadian citizenship on July 28, 2005; it was
awarded to him by special exemption just prior to the 2006
Winter Olympics, enabling him to compete for Canada at the
games in Turin.
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.
Results
In the 2004-2005 season, Pierre Lueders and Brown won a world
title, four World Cup podium
finishes.
In the 2006 Olympic
Games, Lueders and Brown won a silver medal in the two-man
event. 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) and a bronze in the
four-man event (2005).
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