Former runner and surf lifeguard Duncan Pugh made his bobsledding debut in the 2007 European Cup after hearing about it from a friend.
Two years later, at the 2009 America’s Cup in Calgary, Canada, he and Chris Spring won bronze in the two-man race.
He made his Olympic debut in the Vancouver Winter Games the following year, but his medal aspirations were shattered when he was disqualified in the first round of the competition due to an accident that left him with a concussion.
Duncan Pugh Cause Of Death: What Happened To Australian Bobsledder Duncan Pugh?
Duncan Pugh, an Olympic bobsledder, died at the age of 48 from a serious brain aneurysm, according to a piece published last week in The West Australian.
The Olympian died after “a catastrophic brain bleed” that “sadly put him in an unrecoverable state” on Jan. 25, according to a GoFundMe page started to help with medical expenditures. The Olympian had a brain aneurysm on Jan. 24.
Duncan Pugh, an Australian bobsledder who participated in the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, is survived by his wife McKenzie and their two small children, Charlie and George.