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British bobsledder
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Lamin Deen
Deen in 2020
Personal information
NationalityBritish
Born (1981-06-17) 17 June 1981 (age 43)
London, England
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight100 kg (220 lb; 16 st)
Sport
Country United Kingdom
Sport Bobsleigh (pilot)
Event2 man 4man
ClubGB Team

Lamin Deen (born 17 June 1981) is a British bobsleigh pilot and Grenadier Guardsman. He qualified for the 2014 Winter Olympics in both the 2-man (in which he raced with John Baines) and 4-man disciplines.

Deen was born in London into a family which originally hailed from Sierra Leone. He moved to Manchester at the age of nine. He grew up in the city's Moss Side and Withington areas and was a pupil at Burnage High School before joining the Grenadier Guards, serving in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Kosovo. He represented the British Army in athletics, boxing and basketball before competing in bobsleigh.

Deen scored a new personal best finish in the Bobsleigh World Cup in January 2014 when he (along with Stuart Benson, Bruce Tasker and Joel Fearon) finished in 11th place in the four-man event at a meeting held at the Igls track. Deen finished 19th in the four man event at the 2014 Winter Olympics and 23rd in the two man competition.

Deen enjoyed a strong start to the 2014-15 season, scoring a third and a first place in the opening two four man races of the Americas Cup at the Park City track and winning another race at the following meeting at the Calgary track. At the 2015 FIBT World Championships, Deen led crews to fifth place in the four-man event, 14th in the two-man event and eighth along with the rest of the British squad in the team event.

References

  1. ^ "Lamin Deen". Team GB. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
  2. ^ Hope, Nick (15 February 2014). "Sochi 2014: Military saved GB Bobsleigh's Deen from life of crime". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
  3. ^ Hope, Nick (19 January 2014). "BBC Sport – Sochi 2014: GB Bobsleigh secure two four-man Olympic spots". BBC Sport. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
  4. Spencer, Peter (16 August 2011). "Olympics: Lamin Deen has eyes on Olympic bobsleigh glory". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
  5. Hope, Nick (23 February 2014). "Sochi 2014: GB miss out on medal in four-man bobsleigh". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
  6. Hope, Nick (17 February 2014). "Sochi 2014: Russia win two-man bobsleigh after GB/Jamaica exits". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
  7. Hope, Nick (16 November 2014). "Lamin Deen: Briton wins Americas Cup bobsleigh gold". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
  8. Hope, Nick (24 November 2014). "Meyers-Taylor and Humphries win historic bobsleigh medals". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
  9. "Britain fifth as Germany win world four-man bobsleigh title". bbc.co.uk. 8 March 2015. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
  10. "WCH 2 Men Bob Winterberg: Results". Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing. 27 February 2015. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  11. "WCH Team Winterberg: Results". Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing. 1 March 2015. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2015.


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