Richard McDermott
Terry McDermott 
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| Full name | Richard Terrance McDermott | |||||||||
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 United States
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| birthday | September 20, 1940 | |||||||||
| place of birth | Essexville, Michigan | |||||||||
| size | 178 cm | |||||||||
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| discipline | Speed skating | |||||||||
| status | resigned | |||||||||
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Richard Terrance "Terry" McDermott (born September 20, 1940 in Essexville , Michigan ) is a former American speed skater .
He was the surprise winner over 500 meters at the 1964 Olympic Games in Innsbruck , when he the reigning Olympic champion Yevgeny Grishin with half a second ahead beat . In 1968 he was able to win silver again over this route at the Olympic Games.
Web links
- Richard McDermott in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Statistics at speed skating news
1924: Charles Jewtraw | 1928: Bernt Evensen / Clas Thunberg | 1932: Jack Shea | 1936: Ivar Ballangrud | 1948: Finn Helgesen | 1952: Kenneth Henry | 1956: Yevgeny Grishin | 1960: Yevgeny Grishin | 1964: Richard McDermott | 1968: Erhard Keller | 1972: Erhard Keller | 1976: Yevgeny Kulikov | 1980: Eric Heiden | 1984: Sergei Fokitschew | 1988: Uwe-Jens Mey | 1992: Uwe-Jens Mey | 1994: Alexander Golubew | 1998: Hiroyasu Shimizu | 2002: Casey FitzRandolph | 2006: Joey Cheek | 2010: Mo Tae-bum | 2014: Michel Mulder | 2018: Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen
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| SURNAME | McDermott, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | McDermott, Richard Terrance (full name); McDermott, Terry (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American speed skater |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 20, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Essexville , Michigan |