Wendel Suckow

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Medal record
Luge
World Championships
Gold 1993 Calgary Men's singles

Wendel Suckow (born April 11, 1967 in Marquette, Michigan) is an American luger who competed during the 1990s. He is best known for the being the first (and as of 2007, only) American to ever win a gold medal in luge either at the Winter Olympics or the World Championships when he was the surprise winner of the 1993 championships in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Competing in three Winter Olympics, Suckow's best finish was fifth in the men's singles at Lillehammer in 1994.

Suckow retired from luge after the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano and went to work for Team Worldwide, a logistics firm, as an account manager in Memphis, Tennessee. He later worked as an account manager for The Terminal Corporation, a logisitics firm located in Baltimore, Maryland, but is no longer in that position as of 2008.

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World champions in men's singles luge.
1955: Anton Salvesen * 1957: Hans Schaller * 1958: Jerzy Wojnar * 1959: Herbert Thaler * 1960: Helmut Berndt * 1961: Jerzy Wojnar * 1962: Thomas Köhler * 1963: Fritz Nachmann * 1965: Hans Plenk * 1967: Thomas Köhler * 1969: Josef Feistmantl * 1970: Josef Fendt * 1971: Karl Brunner * 1973: Hans Rinn * 1974: Josef Fendt * 1975: Wolfram Fiedler * 1977: Hans Rinn * 1978: Paul Hildgartner * 1979: Dettlef Günther * 1981: Sergey Danilin * 1983: Miroslav Zajonc * 1985: Michael Walter * 1987: Markus Prock * 1989: Georg Hackl * 1990: Georg Hackl * 1991: Arnold Huber * 1993: Wendel Suckow * 1995: Armin Zöggeler * 1996: Markus Prock * 1997: Georg Hackl * 1999: Armin Zöggeler * 2000: Jens Müller * 2001: Armin Zöggeler * 2003: Armin Zöggeler * 2004: David Möller * 2005: Armin Zöggeler * 2007: David Möller * 2008: Felix Loch
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