fullname birth_place headercolor birth_date article_title name
kerry joel lynch denver , colorado , u.s. lightsteelblue july 31 , 1957 kerry lynch
 kerry lynch
kerry lynch

kerry joel lynch -lrb- born july 31 , 1957 in denver , colorado -rrb- is an american former nordic combined skier who competed from 1979 to 1987 .
he is best known for his doping scandal at the 1987 fis nordic world ski championships in oberstdorf , west germany in which he and his coach jim page approved a plan to give lynch an illegal transfusion to increase his red blood cell count .
lynch would finish second in the 15 km individual event behind norway 's torbjørn løkken , only to be stripped of his medal when he and page confessed to the scandal .
lynch would serve a two-year suspension as a result .
he is the only nordic combined athlete to ever been stripped of a medal either in the winter olympics or in the fis nordic world ski championships .
the united states would not win a nordic combined medal at the nordic skiing world championships until johnny spillane 's gold medal in the 7.5 km sprint event at val di fiemme in 2003 .
despite his doping controversy lynch competed in two winter olympics , earning his best finish of 13th at sarajevo in 1984 .
he would also become only the second american to win anything at the holmenkollen ski festival when he won the nordic combined event in 1983 , fifteen years after john bower won the same event .
lynch 's only other world cup victory also took place in 1983 in a 15 km individual event in austria .
he also was three-time national champion in the nordic combined event -lrb- 1981 , 1983 , 1986 -rrb- .
