Career
Competing in two Winter Olympics, Lemmerer earned his best finish of fifth in the men"s doubles event at Sarajevo in 1984. After retiring from competition in the mid-1980s, Lemmerer became a development coach for the International Luge Federation (FIL), developing luge teams from Greece, Bermuda, India, and Somalia. Several of those teams competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, but did not medal in any luge event.