Adam Laird Pengilly (born 14 October 1977) is a

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skeleton racer who has competed since 2004. He won a silver medal in men's skeleton event at the

FIBT World Championships 2009 The FIBT World Championships 2009, officially known as the Bauhaus FIBT Bobsleigh & Skeleton World Championships, February 20 to March 1, 2009, at the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track in Lake Placid, New York, for the ninth time, doing so pr ...

in Lake Placid. Pengilly finished eighth in the men's skeleton event at the 2006 Winter Olympics. During those games, he kept a

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of what transpired around him. Pengilly qualified for the

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where he finished 18th. On 25 February 2010, he was elected by his fellow Olympic athletes to the

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along with

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Yang Yang and American

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player

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. Adam served as a member of the IOC at London 2012, Sochi 2014, Rio 2016 and Pyeongchang 2018. Following an altercation with a security guard Pengilly was sent home from the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.

Education

Pengilly was educated at

Heathfield Community School Monkton Wood Academy is an Academy (England and Wales) located at West Monkton in the outskirts of Taunton, England. It had 1,192 pupils aged 11 to 18, of which 78 were in the sixth form, in 2015, and has an Arts College specialist status. The h ...

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near

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, followed by Richard Huish College in Taunton.

Personal life

Pengilly is a Christian and is part o
Widcombe Baptist Church
Bath, UK. He comes from Creech St Michael in Somerset, where he grew up, often visiting his parents who still live there and th
Creech St Michael Baptist Church
He graduated in Sport and Exercise Science from

Birmingham University The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a Public university, public research university located in Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Queen's College, Birmingha ...

in 2000. Adam now lives and trains in Bath. He married Ruth on 10 July 2010.

References

Footnotes

Sources

2006 men's skeleton results

British Bob Skeleton Association profile
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