Lascelles Brown

{{short description|Jamaican-born Canadian bobsledder|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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| name = Lascelles Brown

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|caption = Brown at the 2010 Winter Olympics

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1974|10|12}}{{cite web|url=http://www.torino2006.org/ENG/IDF/ATH/600044.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060907094351/http://www.torino2006.org/ENG/IDF/ATH/600044.html|archive-date=September 7, 2006|title=Athlete details - BROWN Lascelles|website=Torino 2006 - XX Olympic Winter Games}}

| birth_place = May Pen, Clarendon, Jamaica{{cite web|url=http://www.realchampions.ca/athletes/jaffi1|title=Welcome to Lascelles Brown's page|website=RealChampions.ca|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927011923/http://www.realchampions.ca/athletes/jaffi1|archive-date=September 27, 2007}}{{cite web|url=http://olympic.ca/team-canada/lascelles-brown/|title=Lascelles Brown|website=Canadian Olympic Committee|date=16 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301061840/http://olympic.ca/team-canada/lascelles-brown/|archive-date=March 1, 2014|url-status=live}}

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{{MedalSport|Men's Bobsleigh}}

{{MedalCountry| {{CAN}}}}

{{MedalOlympic}}

{{MedalSilver|2006 Turin|Two-man}}

{{MedalBronze|2010 Vancouver|Four-man}}

{{MedalCompetition | World Championships }}

{{MedalGold|2005 Calgary|Two-man}}

{{MedalSilver|2007 St. Moritz|Four-man}}

{{MedalBronze|2005 Calgary|Four-man}}

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Lascelles Brown (born October 12, 1974 in May Pen) is a Jamaican-born Canadian bobsledder who has competed for three countries since starting his career in 1999. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he is the first Jamaican-born athlete to win a Winter Olympic medal.{{cite news|work=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060221193939/http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/stories/newsmaker.shtml?%2Fstory%2Folympics%2Fnational%2F2006%2F02%2F19%2FSports%2Fbrown_newsmaker.html |archive-date=February 21, 2006 |url=http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/stories/newsmaker.shtml?/story/olympics/national/2006/02/19/Sports/brown_newsmaker.html |date=February 20, 2006 |title=Brown a beaming Canadian medallist |url-status=dead }}

Brown was a member of the Jamaica national bobsled team from 1999 to 2004,{{cite news|url=http://www.nbcolympics.com/bobsled_2man/5119462/detail.html|title=Jamaican-born pusher wins silver for Canada|date=February 19, 2006|work=NBCOlympics.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060520151133/http://www.nbcolympics.com/bobsled_2man/5119462/detail.html|archive-date=May 20, 2006}} competing at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, as a brakeman for Winston Watt. The Jamaican duo set the track push record during those games. He continued training for bobsleigh at Calgary's Canada Olympic Park, where he met and married his wife Kara, a Canadian. As of 2011, they have three daughters and a son together.

He applied for Canadian citizenship on July 28, 2005;{{cite news|url=http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sports/html/20060124T200000-0500_97281_OBS_JAMAICAN_BOBSLEDDER_TO_COMPETE_FOR_CANADA_.asp|title=Jamaican bobsledder to compete for Canada|date=January 25, 2006|newspaper=The Jamaica Observer|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060302054507/http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sports/html/20060124T200000-0500_97281_OBS_JAMAICAN_BOBSLEDDER_TO_COMPETE_FOR_CANADA_.asp|archive-date=March 2, 2006}} it was awarded to him by special exemption just prior to the 2006 Winter Olympics,{{cite web|url=http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletes/5118628/detail.html|title=Homepage: Athletes: Lascelles Brown|website=NBCOlympics.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060421184014/http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletes/5118628/detail.html|archive-date=April 21, 2006}} enabling him to compete for Canada at the games in Turin. Brown is currently acting as the brakeman for Lyndon Rush in both the 2-man and 4-man event. Brown competed at the 2010 Winter Olympics together with Rush on their home track at the Whistler Sliding Centre, winning bronze in the four-man event. Brown had previously been competing with North America's most decorated bobsleigh pilot Pierre Lueders but the two had a falling-out and no longer compete together. Brown recently said that "I'd only do it if Jesus asked" when questioned if he would ever compete with Lueders again.{{cite news |first= Randy|last=Starkman|title = Starkman: I'd only do it if Jesus asked, says Olympian |publisher = Toronto Star |date =11 November 2009 |url = http://olympics.thestar.com/2010/article/724047--starkman-i-d-only-do-it-if-jesus-asked-says-olympian |access-date=January 13, 2010}}

Bobsleigh Canada coach Gerd Grimme described Brown as one of the top three brakesmen in the world, along with Beat Hefti of Switzerland and Germany's Kevin Kuske.

Beginning the 2010 season Brown became a competitor for Monaco, and was partnered with Monégasque Patrice Servelle.{{cite news |author=Gary Kingston|title = New 'king' of Monaco sledding cashes in |publisher = Vancouver Sun |date =26 November 2010 |url = https://vancouversun.com/sports/2010wintergames/king+Monaco+sledding+cashes/3887817/story.html |access-date=November 28, 2010}}{{cite news |title = Monaco's Lascelles Brown and Patrice Serville |publisher = FIRSTPOST |date = 26 November 2010 |url = http://www.firstpost.com/topic/place/monaco-monacos-lascelles-brown-and-patrice-serville-fr-image-0aIk4PfdyF40n-2173-1.html |access-date = November 28, 2010 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150924161926/http://www.firstpost.com/topic/place/monaco-monacos-lascelles-brown-and-patrice-serville-fr-image-0aIk4PfdyF40n-2173-1.html |archive-date = 24 September 2015 }} He stopped representing Monaco, returning as a competitor for Canada in 2012.{{cite web|url=http://www.sochi2014.com/en/athlete-lascelles-brown|title=Lascelles BROWN - Olympic Bobsleigh | Canada|website=Sochi2014.com|publisher=Organizing Committee of the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games of 2014 in Sochi|access-date=February 25, 2017|archive-date=July 6, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140706061956/http://www.sochi2014.com/en/athlete-lascelles-brown|url-status=dead}}