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Born | Glasgow, Scotland | 12 February 1981||||||||||||||
Years active | 2011–2014 | ||||||||||||||
Height | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 103 kg (227 lb; 16.2 st) | ||||||||||||||
Spouse | Sarah Benson | ||||||||||||||
Website | www | ||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||
Country | Great Britain | ||||||||||||||
Sport | Bobsleigh | ||||||||||||||
Event | Four-Man bobsleigh | ||||||||||||||
Club | GB Bobsleigh, Bath | ||||||||||||||
Coached by | Dominik Scherrer Peter Gunn Michael Khmel | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Stuart Benson (born 12 February 1981) is a former bobsledder who competed for Team GB, and an avionics technician in the Royal Air Force. His competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi in the four-man bobsleigh, competing with John James Jackson, Bruce Tasker, and Joel Fearon, where they finished fifth. With the disqualification of both Russian bobsleigh teams who finished ahead of them, they officially finished third.[1]