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| Full name | Gilbert Bayard Colgate Jr. | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1899-12-21)21 December 1899 New York City, USA | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 9 October 1965(1965-10-09) (aged 65) New York City, USA | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Bobsleigh | ||||||||||||||
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Gilbert Bayard Colgate Jr. (December 21, 1899 – October 9, 1965) was an American businessman and bobsledder who competed in the 1930s. He won the bronze medal in the two-man event at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, with teammate Richard Lawrence.
Colgate, a 1922 Yale University graduate, and brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi chapter); was also one of five children of Gilbert Colgate Sr., who was the great-grandson of William Colgate, who founded what is now the Colgate-Palmolive Company. He served as a director of the Colgate company and was chairman of the Colgate-Larsen Aircraft Company. Gil Colgate was concerned about the population explosion and became one of the founders of Planned Parenthood.
References
- Bobsleigh two-man Olympic medalists 1932-56 and since 1964 Archived August 10, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- DatabaseOlympics.com profile
- Biographical Dictionary of American Business article on Colgate's father - Accessed August 11, 2007.
- Ivy League sports featuring Colgate
- "Sport: Bobbers". Time. March 5, 1934.
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Gil Colgate, Jr". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on September 24, 2013.
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- 1899 births
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- American male bobsledders
- Bobsledders at the 1936 Winter Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in bobsleigh
- Sportspeople from New York City
- Yale University alumni
- Medalists at the 1936 Winter Olympics
- Colgate family
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