Robert Olesen (11 June 1967) is an American
bobsled
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der who competed in the late 1990s. At the
1997 FIBT World Championships in
St. Moritz
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, he won bronze medals in both the two-man and the four-man events.
At the
1998 Winter Olympics
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in
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 ...
, Olesen finished seventh in the two-man event and 12th in the four-man event.
Olesen is currently the Head Men's and Women's Track and Field and Cross Country coach at University of North Carolina Charlotte.
References
Bobsleigh two-man world championship medalists since 1931
American male bobsledders
Bobsledders at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Olympic bobsledders for the United States
20th-century American people
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