Lyndon Rush

Lyndon Rush ( * November 24, 1980 in Humboldt, Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian bobsledder who has been active since 2004. He won the silver medal in the mixed bobsleigh - skeleton team championship at the Bob World Cup 2008 in Altenberg. Rush currently resides in Sylvan Lake, Alberta, where he works as a real estate broker.

Career

Lyndon Rush's breakthrough as a bobsledder happened during the Bob World Cup 2009/2010, when he was in Park City, Utah, USA, won the Viererbobwettbewerb. Lyndon Rush also finished third in the Vierbobwettbewerb in Cesana in Italy, which contributed to its current listing as third in the world rankings in the four-man event. Rush managed together with Lascelles Brown, with André Lange at Zweierbobwettbewerb in St. Moritz catch up. This was their first victory and podium in Zweierbobwettbewerb.

Rush competed for Canada at the 2010 Winter Olympics on his home track at the Whistler Sliding Centre. In the second race of the Zweierbobwettbewerbes crashed his Bob, with whom he and Lascelles Brown had reached a new Startbestzeit, so he fell back on rank 3 in the first race at the second round on the 21th Place. In the four-man competition, he was still in the 3rd round in 2nd place before he was overtaken in the 4th round of André Lange and two hundredths of a second residue took the bronze medal.

When Bob World Cup 2012 in Lake Placid, he won with brakeman Jesse Lumsden the silver medal in the two-man bob.