Zach Lund ( Eng. Zach Lund , March 22, 1979 , Salt Lake City , Utah ) - American skeletonist , who played for the US team in the 2000s. Participant of the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, winner of the World Cup, two-time winner of the America's Cup, twice bronze medalist of the world championships.
 Zack Lund | |
|---|---|
| Citizenship |  USA |
| Date of Birth | March 22, 1979 (40 years) |
| Place of Birth | Salt Lake City , UT |
| Growth | 183 cm |
| Weight | 80 kg |
| Career | |
| In the national team | from the year 2000 |
| Status | completed career |
| End of career | 2010 |
| Last updated: April 1st 2012 | |
Biography
Born on March 22, 1979 in Salt Lake City , Utah , Zach Lund was the fifth child in the family. After graduating from Catholic school and college in 1999, he began to actively engage in skeleton, was selected to the national team and made his debut at the World Cup in February 2001, arriving twenty-first at the stage in Japanese Nagano. At its second stage, it has already closed the top ten, and since then has long settled among the leaders of the world skeleton.
Having twice won the overall America's Cup and becoming number one in the national team, he was going to take part in the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin , but a few days before the competition, Finasteride , a forbidden drug that hides the use of doping, was found in his blood. Literally on the opening day of the Games, the Arbitration Court of Sports in Lausanne decided to disqualify Lund for a period of one year [1] . The athlete himself categorically denied the deliberate use of doping, explaining the presence of finasteride in the blood as a medicine for baldness, which he has been taking since adolescence.
After the expiration of the disqualification Lund began to speak even better than before, in particular, in the 2006/07 cup season, he took the first place in the overall standings and, accordingly, won the World Cup. At the 2007 World Championships in St. Petersburg, St. Moritz won a bronze medal in the men's singles, whereas a year later at the competitions in German Altenberg he received the same award for participating in mixed bobsleigh and skeleton competitions. Thanks to a series of successful performances, he won the right to defend the honor of the country at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver , where he subsequently took fifth place, and only 0.52 seconds was enough for the podium. In connection with the increased competition in the national team immediately after this Olympiad, he decided to end his career as a professional athlete, giving way to young American skeletonists.
Notes
- ↑ Zach Lund is disqualified and will not perform at the Olympics . Sport Express (February 10, 2006). The appeal date is March 18, 2012. Archived on October 5, 2012.