Chris Thorpe
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Christopher Thorpe (born October 29, 1970, in Waukegan, Illinois) is an American luger who competed from 1989 to 2002. Competing in four Winter Olympics, he won two medals in the men's doubles event with a silver in 1998 and a bronze in 2002.
Thorpe 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.
While living in Marquette, Michigan, Thorpe, along with fellow Boy Scout and future World Champion Wendel Suckow,[1] first experienced luge on a small local track that (after being relocated to nearby Negaunee, Michigan) remains the only full-length natural track luge facility in the United States.[2]
Thorpe is a 1988 graduate of Marquette Senior High School.[3]
Thorpe retired from luge after the 2002 Winter Olympics and is a now retired living in Farmington, New Mexico.
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- 1994 luge men's doubles results
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External links
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- 1970 births
- American male lugers
- Living people
- Lugers at the 1992 Winter Olympics
- Lugers at the 1994 Winter Olympics
- Lugers at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Lugers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
- Sportspeople from Florida
- Sportspeople from Waukegan, Illinois
- Sportspeople from Michigan
- Olympic lugers for the United States
- Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States in luge
- Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in luge
- People from Farmington, New Mexico
- 21st-century American sportsmen
- 20th-century American sportsmen