Brian Martin (born January 19, 1974) is an American luger who competed from 1990 to 2010. Competing in four

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, he won two medals in the men's doubles event with a silver in 2002 and a bronze in

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

. He was born in

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. Martin also won nine medals at the

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with two silvers (Mixed team: 2004, 2005) and seven bronzes (Men's doubles:

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...

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, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009; Mixed team: 2001). Martin won the overall

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men's doubles title three times (199798, 199899, 200203). He announced his retirement on 17 March 2010. (17 March 2010 article accessed 18 March 2010.) Martin graduated from the

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in 2014.

References

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FIL-Luge profile
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USA Luge profile of Grimmette and Martin

External links

* * * 1974 births American male lugers Living people Sportspeople from Santa Clara County, California Lugers at the 1998 Winter Olympics Lugers at the 2002 Winter Olympics Lugers at the 2006 Winter Olympics Lugers at the 2010 Winter Olympics Olympic lugers of the United States Olympic silver medalists for the United States in luge Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in luge Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics University of California, Berkeley alumni {{US-luge-bio-stub