Dean Ward (born 30 June 1963 in

Portsmouth Portsmouth ( ) is a port and city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire in southern England. The city of Portsmouth has been a unitary authority since 1 April 1997 and is administered by Portsmouth City Council. Portsmouth is the most dens ...

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) is a British

bobsled Bobsleigh or bobsled is a team winter sport that involves making timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Feder ...

der who competed from 1991 to 2002. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the four-man event (tied with

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) at

Nagano Nagano may refer to: Places * Nagano Prefecture, a prefecture in Japan ** Nagano (city), the capital city of the same prefecture *** Nagano 1998, the 1998 Winter Olympics *** Nagano Olympic Stadium, a baseball stadium in Nagano *** Nagano Universi ...

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 ...

. Ward made his first appearance in the media when he was filmed by the BBC 1 for their 1982 documentary, ''

The Paras ''The Paras'' is a 1983 BBC TV documentary series about British Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom), Parachute Regiment recruits of 480 (Training) Platoon undertaking their basic training at the Depot of the Parachute Regiment (Depot Para) at Alde ...

'', which charted the progress of young recruits attempting to become members of the Parachute Regiment on the eve of the

Falklands War The Falklands War ( es, link=no, Guerra de las Malvinas) was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial de ...

References

BBC profile on Ward at 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City

1963 births Sportspeople from Portsmouth Bobsledders at the 1994 Winter Olympics Bobsledders at the 1998 Winter Olympics Bobsledders at the 2002 Winter Olympics British male bobsledders Olympic bobsledders for Great Britain Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain Living people British Parachute Regiment soldiers Olympic medalists in bobsleigh Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics 20th-century British Army personnel Military personnel from Portsmouth {{UK-army-bio-stub