Lyndon Rush

{{short description|Canadian bobsledder}}

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Lyndon Rush (born November 24, 1980) is a Canadian retired bobsledder who has competed since 2004. Rush took up bobsleigh after spending five years playing Canadian football for the University of Saskatchewan. He initially trained as a brakeman before switching to driving due to a hamstring injury.{{cite web |url=http://i.nbcolympics.com/news-features/news/newsid=280777.html |title=Lyndon Rush bio |author= |date=8 February 2010 |website=NBC Olympics|accessdate=20 December 2014}}

Rush won a bronze medal in the four-man event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He won the silver medal in the mixed bobsleigh-skeleton team event at the 2008 FIBT World Championships in Altenberg, Germany.

Born in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Rush made his first breakthroughs in bobsleigh during the 2009–10 Bobsleigh World Cup winning the opening four-man event in Park City, Utah.{{cite news |title = Rush bobsled strikes gold |newspaper = Toronto Star |date =15 November 2009 |url = http://olympics.thestar.com/2010/article/726061--rush-bobsled-strikes-gold |accessdate=2010-01-16}} Rush also finished third at the four-man event in Cesana, Italy, all of which contributed to his current{{When|date=July 2020}} ranking of third in the four-man event. Rush, together with Lascelles Brown, tied for the victory with André Lange at the two-man event in St-Moritz; this was their first victory and podium in the two-man.{{cite news |title = Rush, Lange tie for 2-man bobsled World Cup win |newspaper = USA Today |date =16 January 2010 |url = https://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2010-01-16-2018086903_x.htm |accessdate=2010-01-16}}

After his runs in both two-man and four-man bobsleigh at the 2010 Winter Olympics, Rush openly mused about retiring. Rush is a deeply religious and devoted family man and following the four-man bobsleigh run in Whistler in which he lost out on silver by 1/100 of a second, Rush said that "It makes me feel like I don't want to retire. I like racing bobsled. It's fun. But I think I might have to move on. I'm 29 years old. I'm not a kid. I can't go touring all over Europe all the time."{{cite news|author=Vicki Hall |title=Rush laments expensive hundredth of a second |newspaper=Vancouver Sun |date=1 March 2010 |url=https://vancouversun.com/sports/Rush+laments+expensive+hundredth+second/2626688/story.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100305135859/http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/Rush%2Blaments%2Bexpensive%2Bhundredth%2Bsecond/2626688/story.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 March 2010 |accessdate=2010-03-01 }}

He became partners with Jesse Lumsden at the beginning of the 2012 season and the duo won their first World Cup Gold medal together in the two-man event on February 3, 2012.{{cite news|url=http://tsn.ca/winter_sports/story/?id=386896 |title=Canada's Rush And Lumsden Win Bobsled Gold At World Cup |publisher=TSN |accessdate=February 4, 2012}} It was Rush's second victory in two-man event and his eighth medal in his career on the World Cup circuit. Rush then built on his successes with Lumsden to win a silver medal at the 2012 World Championships. There, despite battling through a stomach virus on his last two runs, as he was in second through the first two runs; he was eventually overtaken by Steven Holcomb pushing him to the silver by 1/100 of a second.{{cite news|title=Canada's Rush, Lumsden capture world bobsleigh silver |url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/canada-s-rush-lumsden-capture-world-bobsleigh-silver-1.1165462 |publisher=CBC Sports |date=February 19, 2012}} In 2013 the duo of Rush and Lumsden won the overall World Cup two-man bobsleigh title.{{cite news|last=Camu|first=Michael|title=Canada's Lyndon Rush, Lumsden capture World Cup bobsleigh title|url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/2.723/canada-s-lyndon-rush-lumsden-capture-world-cup-bobsleigh-title-1.1329686|access-date=February 16, 2013|newspaper=CBC Sports|date=February 16, 2013}}

Rush retired from the sport after the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Since retiring he has taken up a role as assistant coach of WinSport Academy's bobsleigh programme, training developing bobsledders.{{cite web |url=http://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/whistler/program-hoping-to-develop-bobsleigh/Content?oid=2635123 |title=Program hoping to develop bobsleigh |last1=Falloon |first1=Dan |date=18 December 2014 |website=Pique Newsmagazine|accessdate=20 December 2014}}{{cite web |url=https://vancouversun.com/sports/stigma+challenge+Whistler+track/10668149/story.html |title='Bad stigma' a big challenge for Whistler track |last1=Kingston |first1=Gary |date=19 December 2014 |website=Vancouver Sun |accessdate=20 December 2014}}

Rush married Krysta in 2003, and the couple have three daughters and a son. Rush resides in Sylvan Lake, Alberta where he works as a real estate agent.