Jennison Heaton
![]() Jennison Heaton at the 1928 Olympics | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | April 16, 1904 New Haven, Connecticut, United States | ||||||||||||||||||||
Died | August 6, 1971 (aged 67) Burlingame, California, United States | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | skeleton, bobsleigh | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Jennison Heaton (April 16, 1904 – August 6, 1971) was an American bobsled and skeleton racer. He competed at the 1928 Winter Olympics and won a gold medal in the skeleton event and a silver in the five-man bobsleigh competition. In the skeleton, Heaton beat the silver medalist (his younger brother John) by one second. His other brother Trowbridge was also a bobsleigh enthusiast. Heaton later married Beulah Fiske, becoming the brother-in-law of Billy Fiske, also an Olympic bobsledder.[1]
References
- ^ Jennison Heaton Archived 2015-09-07 at the Wayback Machine. sports-reference.com
Further reading
- "Heaton slides into Olympic history". International Olympic Committee. 31 March 2021. Archived from the original on 31 July 2021.
External links
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- Bobsleigh five-man Olympic medalists for 1928[dead link]
- DatabaseOlympics.com profile
- Men's skeleton Olympic medalists since 1928[dead link]
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- 1928:
Jennison Heaton (USA)
- 1948:
Nino Bibbia (ITA)
- 2002:
Jimmy Shea (USA)
- 2006:
Duff Gibson (CAN)
- 2010:
Jon Montgomery (CAN)
- 2014:
Aleksandr Tretyakov (RUS)
- 2018:
Yun Sung-bin (KOR)
- 2022:
Christopher Grotheer (GER)
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