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.
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.
Canada
