Kenneth Leblanc (born February 13, 1968) is a

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der who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He then returned to

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in 1997 and competed until the

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. Leblanc won a bronze medal in the four-man event at the 1999 FIBT World Championships in

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. He was also part of the four-man team that won the overall World Cup in 1989-90. Competing in four Winter Olympics, his best finish was fourth in the four-man event at Albertville in

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. Prior to his career in bobsleigh, Leblanc also competed in

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References

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