Jack Shea

This article is about the American speed skater Jack Shea. For the US director of the same name, see Jack Shea (director) .

Jack Shea
Full name	John Amos Shea
nation	United States
birthday	September 7, 1910
place of birth	Lake Placid, New York
date of death	January 22, 2002
Place of death	Lake Placid, New York
Career
discipline	Speed ​​skating
Medal table
winter Olympics 2 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold Lake Placid 1932 500 m gold Lake Placid 1932 1500 m

John Amos "Jack" Shea (born September 7, 1910 in Lake Placid , † January 22, 2002 ibid) was an American speed skater .

He won at the 1932 Olympic Games in Lake Placid gold in the 500 and 1500 meters. At these games he also took the Olympic oath on behalf of all athletes . At the 1936 Olympic Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , he did not attend a rabbi as a Jew because of a counsel.

Jack Shea was on the committee that brought the 1980 Olympics to his hometown of Lake Placid for the second time since 1932.

On January 22, 2002, two and a half weeks before the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics , Shea died at the age of 91 as a result of a car accident that he had suffered the day before. Shortly before the turn of the year, he had been a torch-bearer for those Winter Games at Lake Placid Stadium .

His son Jim Shea, Sr. also participated in the Olympic Games. He started cross-country skiing in 1964. His grandson Jim Shea , Jr. became the Olympic Skeleton Champion at the 2002 Winter Olympics . According to the BBC, this makes the Shea family the first three generations to take part in the Olympic Games in three different sports.

Web links

• John Shea in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Statistics at speed skating news