René Henri Theophile Lunden, Baron de Lunden (2 June 1902 – 3 April 1942) was a Belgian bobsledder who competed in the late 1930s. He won a gold medal in the two-man event at the 1939 FIBT World Championships in St. Moritz.Bobsleigh two-man world championship medalists since 1931
Lunden also competed at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, finishing eighth in both the two-man and four-man events.Wallenchinsky, David (1984). "Bobsled: Two-man" and "Bobsled: Four-man". In The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics. New York: Penguin Books. pp. 558, 560.
Lunden joined the British RAF during World War II, was commissioned as a Pilot Officer, and was killed in an air crash while returning from a mission in April 1942 aged 39. His body was repatriated to Belgium after the war.
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René Lunden's biography