Gordon "Gordy" Sheer (born June 9, 1971), is an American

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r who competed from 1989 to the late 1990s. Competing in three

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, he won the silver medal in the men's doubles event at

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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 ...

. Sheer also won two silver medals in the men's doubles event at the

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, earning them in

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and

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. He won the overall

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men's doubles title in 1996–7.

Sources

1994 luge men's doubles results
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* * * 1971 births Living people American male lugers Olympic lugers of the United States Olympic silver medalists for the United States in luge Lugers at the 1992 Winter Olympics Lugers at the 1994 Winter Olympics Lugers at the 1998 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from New York (state) Jewish American sportspeople 21st-century American Jews {{US-luge-bio-stub