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 LUGE: Robert Pipkins
Country: United States Born: Feb. 23, 1973, in Buffalo, N.Y. Height: 5'10" Weight: 207 lbs. Current Home: Bloomfield, N.J. Competition Highlights U.S. Championships: 1997 (1st), 1996 (1st), 1995 (1st), 1993 (1st). 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics: (16th) 1992 Albertville Winter Olympics: (21st). World Junior Championships: 1992 (1st). Fun Facts  Pipkins discovered luge almost on a lark. In
1987, his mother, an employee of NYNEX
Corp., read about a luge tryout sponsored by the
company, and asked him if he'd like to give it a
go. A few years later, Pipkins became the first
American sledder to ever win a gold medal in
international luge competition, when he placed
first in the 1992 World Junior Championship in
Japan. In 1994-95, Pipkins elected not to compete in
luge, so he could pursue a degree architectural
engineering at Drexel University in Philadelphia. In
1993, Pipkins was the victim of a widely
publicized racial attack by a group of neo-Nazis
in Oberhof, Germany. The U.S. luge team was in
Oberhof at the time for training.
Source: Knight-Ridder/Tribune
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