Clifford Gray

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Clifford Gray Bobsleigh
Full name Clifford Barton Gray
nation United StatesUnited States United States
birthday January 29, 1892
place of birth Chicago
date of death November 9, 1969
Place of death San Diego County
Career
discipline Four-man, five-man bobsleigh
position Pusher
Medal table
winter Olympics 2 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold 1928 St. Moritz Five-man bobsleigh
gold 1932 Lake Placid Four-man bobsleigh
IBSF Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships
bronze 1937 St. Moritz two
 

Clifford Barton "Cliff" Gray (born January 29, 1892 in Chicago , † November 9, 1969 in San Diego County ) was an American bobsledder .

Gray took part in the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz for the US team and won the gold medal with the five-man bobsleigh team. He was actually only staying in the city as a visitor when he was selected for the bobsled in his home country. At the games four years later in Lake Placid , he won the gold medal again with the four-man bobsleigh team. At the 1937 World Championships , he won the bronze medal in the four-man bobsleigh in Cortina d'Ampezzo under his nickname "Tippy" Gray. At the Olympic Winter Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1936 , Gray was a substitute, but was not used. The Cornell University graduate has been mistaken for British actor and composer Clifford Gray due to several false reports linking him to show business . Whether and if and to what extent Gray himself had contacts in show business can no longer be clarified today.

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