Jeff Pain

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Jeff Pain
Full name Jeff Thomas Pain
nation CanadaCanada Canada
birthday December 14, 1970
place of birth Anchorage , AlaskaUnited StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
size 190 cm
Weight 92 kg
Career
discipline skeleton
Trainer Willi Schneider
National squad since 1995
status resigned
End of career 2010
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World Cup medals 2 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic gamesTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
silver 2006 Turin Single men
IBSF Skeleton World Championships
silver 2001 Calgary Single men
gold 2003 Nagano Single men
gold 2005 Calgary Single men
Placements in the WC / EC / NAC / IC
Debut in the World Cup 1994
last change: November 16, 2015

Jeff Thomas Pain (born December 14, 1970 in Anchorage , Alaska ) is a US- born former Canadian skeleton rider . In his career, Pain won two gold and one silver medal at world championships and one silver medal at the Winter Olympics and was also two-time overall world cup winner in skeleton , which is why it is considered one of the most successful Canadian skeleton professionals.

Career

Sports career

Jeff Pain graduated from the University of British Columbia . He started his career in professional skeleton sport in 1995. At the Skeleton World Championships in 2001 in Calgary , he won the silver medal in the men's individual race. Two years later he became world champion at the 2003 Skeleton World Championships in Nagano by winning the gold medal, and two years later he was able to defend his title at the 2005 Skeleton World Championships in Calgary with similarly good performances. In the 2004/05 Skeleton World Cup season , Pain was overall World Cup winner after winning one of the seven season competitions and always coming in at least fifth in the others. The following season he was able to defend his title after winning three out of seven season competitions this time. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , Pain won the silver medal. Four years later, Pain finished in 9th place at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver due to a muscle injury and ended his active sports career.

Coaching career

At the beginning of November 2015 it was announced that the Chinese Skeleton Association is hiring Jeff Pain as national skeleton coach with a view to the 2022 Winter Olympics in his own country.

Private

Jeff Pain lives and trained in Calgary , where he works as a freelance landscape architect . He is married and has two sons.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Machata new bobsleigh boss in China: "Great challenge" , in the Kieler Nachrichten . Retrieved November 16, 2015.