Adam Laird Pengilly (born 14 October 1977) is a

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who has competed since 2004. He won a silver medal in men's skeleton event at the

FIBT World Championships 2009 The FIBT World Championships 2009, officially known as the Bauhaus FIBT Bobsleigh & Skeleton World Championships, February 20 to March 1, 2009, at the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track in Lake Placid, New York, for the ninth time, doing so prev ...

in Lake Placid. Pengilly finished eighth in the men's skeleton event at the

2006 Winter Olympics The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially the XX Olympic Winter Games ( it, XX Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February 2006 in Turin, Italy. This marked the second ...

. During those games, he kept a

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of what transpired around him. Pengilly qualified for the

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where he finished 18th. On 25 February 2010, he was elected by his fellow Olympic athletes to the International Olympic Committee Athletes' Commission along with

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Yang Yang and

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player

Angela Ruggiero Angela Marie Ruggiero (born January 3, 1980) is an American former ice hockey defenseman, gold medalist, and four-time Olympian. She was a member of the International Olympic Committee from 2010 to 2018 and served as a member of the Executive Bo ...

. Adam served as a member of the IOC at London 2012, Sochi 2014, Rio 2016 and Pyeongchang 2018. Following an altercation with a security guard Pengilly was sent home from the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.

Education

Pengilly was educated at

Heathfield Community School Monkton Wood Academy is an Academy (England and Wales) located at West Monkton in the outskirts of Taunton, England. It had 1,192 pupils aged 11 to 18, of which 78 were in the sixth form, in 2015, and has an Arts College specialist status. The h ...

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near

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, followed by Richard Huish College in Taunton.

Personal life

Pengilly is a Christian and is part o
Widcombe Baptist Church
Bath, UK. He comes from Creech St Michael in Somerset, where he grew up, often visiting his parents who still live there and th
Creech St Michael Baptist Church
He graduated in Sport and Exercise Science from

Birmingham University , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

in 2000. Adam now lives and trains in Bath. He married Ruth on 10 July 2010.

References

Footnotes

Sources

2006 men's skeleton results

British Bob Skeleton Association profile
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* * * 1977 births English male skeleton racers Living people Skeleton racers at the 2006 Winter Olympics Skeleton racers at the 2010 Winter Olympics Olympic skeleton racers of Great Britain Sportspeople from Taunton Alumni of the University of Birmingham International Olympic Committee members Universiade medalists in skeleton Universiade silver medalists for Great Britain Competitors at the 2005 Winter Universiade 20th-century British people 21st-century British people {{Skeleton-bio-stub