Gordon Sheer

Gordon Sheer
Medal record
Luge
Olympic Games
Silver 1998 Nagano Men's doubles
World Championships
Silver 1995 Lillehammer Men's doubles
Silver 1996 Altenberg Men's doubles

Gordon Sheer (nicknamed Gordy, born June 9, 1971) is an American luger who competed from 1989 to the late 1990s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won the silver medal in the men's doubles event at Nagano in 1998.

Sheer also won two silver medals in the men's doubles event at the FIL World Luge Championships, earning them in 1995 and 1996. He won the overall Luge World Cup men's doubles title in 1996-7.

Sheer retired in 2000 and is now marketing director for the United States Luge Association in Lake Placid, New York.

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