Tucker West (born June 15, 1995) is an American luger who, at the age of 18, was the youngest male ever to qualify to represent the United States in the men's luge at the Olympics.
On December 5, 2014, West won the 2014–15 Luge World Cup men's singles race in Lake Placid.
This win made him the first American to be victorious in a men's singles world cup event since Wendel Suckow on February 15, 1997.
[9] Then the following week at the next stop on the tour in Whistler, British Columbia, he won the men's singles event again for back-to-back victories on the circuit.
[10] On December 15, 2017, West placed third, taking the bronze with a combined time of 1:42:226 at the Lake Placid stop on the 2017-18 Luge World Cup circuit and in doing so, secured himself a spot on the United States squad to compete at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang County, South Korea.