Gordon Sheer
Appearance
Medal record | ||
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Luge | ||
Olympic Games | ||
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1998 Nagano | Men's doubles |
World Championships | ||
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1995 Lillehammer | Men's doubles |
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1996 Altenberg | Men's doubles |
Gordon Sheer (nicknamed Gordy, born June 9, 1971) is an American luger who competed from 1989 to the late 1990s. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he won the silver medal in the men's doubles event at Nagano in 1998.
Sheer also won two silver medals in the men's doubles event at the FIL World Luge Championships, earning them in 1995 and 1996. He won the overall Luge World Cup men's doubles title in 1996-7.
Sheer retired in 2000 and is now marketing director for the United States Luge Association in Lake Placid, New York.
His family is Jewish.
References
- 1994 luge men's doubles results
- 1998 Washington Post.com information on Sheer and doubles' partner Chris Thorpe.
- DatabaseOlympics.com information on Sheer. at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-08-28)
- FIL-Luge profile
- Fuzilogik Sports - Winter Olympic results - Men's luge at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-02-21)
- Hickoksports.com results on Olympic champions in luge and skeleton. at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-06-30)
- Hickok sports information on World champions in luge and skeleton. at archive.today (archived 2012-12-04)
- List of men's doubles luge World Cup champions since 1978. at the Wayback Machine (archived 2008-02-06)
- Thinkquest information on Sheer. at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-04-21)
- United State Luge Association contact information
Categories:
- 1971 births
- American male lugers
- Living people
- Lugers at the 1994 Winter Olympics
- Lugers at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Sportspeople from New York (state)
- Olympic lugers of the United States
- Jewish American sportspeople
- Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States in luge
- American Winter Olympic medalist stubs
- American luge biography stubs