Lascelles Brown

Lascelles Brown ( born October 12, 1974 in May Pen, Jamaica ) is a Canadian- Jamaican bobsledder.

Brown started from 1999 to 2004 for the Jamaican bobsled team. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, he set a new start record.

Since he saw no prospects in terms of performance sport in Jamaica, he moved to the crew of the Canadian Pierre Lueders. With him he won in the 2004/05 season four World Cup races (three in two and one in four man bobs). At the World Championship 2005 in Calgary, he won the gold medal. In the season 2005/06, two more World Cup victories were added.

In July 2005, Brown filed an application for Canadian citizenship. This was granted to him under a special ruling shortly before the 2006 Winter Olympics. On the Olympic bobsled track in Cesana Torinese, he and Lueders second.

Lascelles Brown started with Lyndon Rush for Canada at the 2010 Winter Olympics on his home track at the Whistler Sliding Centre. In the second race of the Zweierbobwettbewerbes rushed the two-man, with whom he and Lyndon Rush had reached a new Startbestzeit, so he fell back on rank 3 in the first race at the second round on the 21th Place. On 27 February 2010 he was a member of the team of Rush when he won the bronze medal in the four-man behind Steven Holcomb and Andre Lange.

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