Lowell Bailey

Lowell Bailey is an American biathlon coach and retired biathlete who competed from 2001 until 2018, born on 15 July 1981 in Siler City, North Carolina. His first World Cup podium was a second place, after a disqualification, in the second sprint at Kontiolahti in 2014, and his first World Cup victory came in the 20 km event at the 2017 Biathlon World Championships in Hochfilzen, Austria. That made him the first biathlon world champion from the United States and, at 35 years and 216 days, the oldest individual gold medalist in the history of the World Championships. He competed at the Winter Olympics in 2006, where he was 27th in the individual, in 2010, where he was 36th in both the sprint and the pursuit, and also in 2014 and 2018. He retired during the 2017-18 season and in 2019 became High Performance Director of the U.S. Biathlon Association.