Jim Shea
Jim Shea (born June 10, 1968 in Hartford , Connecticut , USA ) is an American athlete and Olympic champion in skeleton.
Jim Shea, the winner of the Skeleton -Goldmedaille at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , began as a bobsledder , but then changed because of lower costs and higher voltage to Skeleton. After winning the 1999 World Cup , he qualified for the US Olympic Skeleton Team.
Shea is a third generation Olympic participant: his father Jim Shea Senior competed in the Nordic combined and cross-country skiing disciplines at the 1964 Winter Olympics, and his grandfather Jack Shea won two gold medals for speed skating at the 1932 Winter Olympics in his hometown of Lake Placid . Like his grandfather, Shea took the Olympic oath at the opening ceremony of the Games .
Web links
- Profile on skeletonsport.com ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Internet information from the IOC
- Jim Shea, Jr. in the Sports-Reference database (archived from the original )
1928: Jennison Heaton | 1948: Nino Bibbia | 2002: Jim Shea | 2006: Duff Gibson | 2010: Jon Montgomery | 2014: Alexander Tretyakov | 2018: Yun Sung-bin
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shea, Jim |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shea, Jimmy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hartford , Connecticut , United States |