David "Eli" MacEachern (born November 4, 1967) was a two-sport athlete from Canada. He was a

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der who competed in the 1990s. Competing in three

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, he and Pierre Lueders won the gold medal in the two-man event (shared with

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) at Nagano in

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. He was also a soccer player that competed at the university level as well as national competitions. He was born in

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. MacEachern also won a silver medal in the two-man event at the 1996 FIBT World Championships in

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. In 2004, David MacEachern was inducted into the

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* * * 1967 births Bobsledders at the 1992 Winter Olympics Bobsledders at the 1994 Winter Olympics Bobsledders at the 1998 Winter Olympics Canadian male bobsledders Living people Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics Olympic bobsledders for Canada Olympic gold medalists for Canada Olympic medalists in bobsleigh Sportspeople from Charlottetown 20th-century Canadian sportsmen {{Canada-bobsleigh-bio-stub