Ricardo Raschini (born May 14, 1967 in

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) is a Brazilian

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der and luger who competed in luge from the late 1990s to the early 2000s and in

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from 2002 to 2006. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in

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, he finished 25th in the four-man event. Raschini also competed as a luger at the

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, finishing 45th in the men's singles event. He switched to Skeleton and did not qualify for the Canada 2010 Winter Olympics. He was born in

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, and resides there. He went to ITT Tech, in Framingham, MA and graduated in 1998.

References

2002 luge men's singles results

FIBT profile

FIL-Luge profile

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* 1967 births Living people Brazilian male lugers Brazilian male bobsledders Olympic lugers for Brazil Olympic bobsledders for Brazil Lugers at the 2002 Winter Olympics Bobsledders at the 2006 Winter Olympics Brazilian people of Italian descent People from Capivari Sportspeople from São Paulo (state) 20th-century Brazilian sportsmen {{Brazil-luge-bio-stub