 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.
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
- Bobsleigh five-man Olympic medalists for 1928 Archived 2017-01-06 at the Wayback Machine
- DatabaseOlympics.com profile
- Men's skeleton Olympic medalists since 1928 Archived 2020-02-06 at the Wayback Machine
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- 1904 births
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- American male bobsledders
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- Bobsledders at the 1928 Winter Olympics
- Skeleton racers at the 1928 Winter Olympics
- Olympic skeleton racers for the United States
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in skeleton
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States in bobsleigh
- Medalists at the 1928 Winter Olympics
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- Sportspeople from New Haven, Connecticut
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