GRIMMETTE & MARTIN

Front Driver                              Back Driver

Mark GRIMMETTE
DOB: Jan. 23, 1971
Height/Weight: 6’1”, 198 lbs.  (1 meter, 85; 90.2 kg)
Born in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Resides in Muskegon, Mich.

Brian MARTIN
DOB: Jan. 19, 1974
Height/Weight: 5’8”, 160 lbs.  (1 meter, 73; 72.5 kg)
Born in Palo Alto, Calif.
Resides in Palo Alto, Calif.

Personal /Career Info:

Best-Ever Results

·USA Luge’s all-time leaders in int’l medals won, 59, including Olympic, World Cup, World Championship & Challenge Cup (18-17-24)

· 2002 XIX Winter Olympic silver medalists, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

· 1998 XVIII Winter Olympic bronze medalists, Nagano, Japan

· Three-time overall World Cup Champions (1998, 1999 & 2003), 2000 overall World Cup bronze medalists

· 10 World Cup wins gives them the all-time USA Luge lead for career victories

· Four-time World Championship bronze medalists (1999, 2000, 2004 & 2005)

· Two-time consecutive overall Challenge Cup silver medalists (2000 & 2001)

· Two-time consecutive Challenge Cup Champions (2002 & 2003)

· 2000 Winter Goodwill Games Champions

· Three-time consecutive Verizon North American Champions (2000-2002)

· Verizon U.S. National Champions (1998, 1999, 2001, 2002 & 2005)

2005-06 Results

· 2005 JetBlue Airways U.S. National Start Championship silver medalists  

· Finished sixth at the 2005 Meransan, Italy Int'l start championships   

2004-05 Results

· 2004-05 World Cup results: 8th, 3rd, 4th, 1st, 12th, 6th, 7th, 3rd

· Finished fourth in the final 2005 overall World Cup rankings

· World Cup team relay gold medalists (Dec. 11, 2004)

· World Cup team event bronze medalists (Jan. 5, 2006)

· Finished fifth in final 2005 overall Challenge Cup rankings

· 2005 World Luge Championship bronze medalists

· 2005 World Luge Championship team event silver medalists

· 2004 JetBlue Airways Luge Start Championship bronze medalists

· 2005 Verizon U.S. National Champions

Fun Facts

· Mark was one of eight athletes to carry the World Trade Center Flag during the 2002 Olympic Winter Games opening ceremony

· Mark is the oldest person on the team and is often called "Papa Mark"  

·  Mark's favorite athlete is Michael Jordan  

· Mark has two sisters and one brother   

· Brian says his favorite career moment was winning bronze during the '98 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan  

· Brian says that if he could compete in any other Olympic sport it would either be soccer or downhill ski racing   

· Brian says his favorite place to vacation is in the Tropics, the British Virgin Islands and Costa Rica