John Robert "Louie" Ehrensbeck (September 19, 1944 – July 17, 2021)Louie Ehrensbeck's obituary
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1968 Winter Olympics The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games (french: Les Xes Jeux olympiques d'hiver), were a winter multi-sport event held from 6 to 18 February 1968 in Grenoble, France. Thirty-seven countries participated. Frenchm ...

. Ehrensbeck was born in Utica, New York and went to high school in Old Forge, New York, where he competed for his high school ski team. He joined the US Ski team in Alpine in 1961 and the Nordic team in 1963. In 1968 he was on the United States Olympic team in

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competing in biathlon. He was part of the Men's 4 × 7.5 kilometers Relay (a new event in 1968) in which the United States finished eighth. He returned to upstate New York where he worked tuning ski equipment and coaching soccer and golf.

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1944 births 2021 deaths American male biathletes Olympic biathletes for the United States Biathletes at the 1968 Winter Olympics People from Utica, New York Sportspeople from New York (state) {{US-biathlon-bio-stub