- Jeff Pain
Jeff Pain (born on
December 14 ,1970 inAnchorage, Alaska ) is an American-born, Canadian skeleton racer who has competed since 1995. He is regarded as the most successful male competitors in the history of the Canadian skeleton program.Pain has had an 11-year career with 15 World Cup podium finishes, 3 World Championship medals, and an Olympic silver medal. This included winning the men's Skeleton World Cup overall title twice (2004-5, 2005-6). He represented Canada at the
2006 Winter Olympics where he finished with asilver medal behind fellow CanadianDuff Gibson . One distinguishing feature of Pain's skeleton gear is his custom-paintedhelmet , depicting the face of an enragedbeaver .Pain also won three medals in the men's skeleton event at the
FIBT World Championships with two golds (2003, 2005) and a silver (2001).References
* [http://www.sportresult.com/sports/bs/db/biography.asp?p_id=100562&nat=&sport=&sex=&season=&stat=&venue=&events= FIBT profile]
* [http://sports123.com/ske/mwc.html List of men's skeleton World Cup champions since 1987.]
* [http://sports123.com/ske/mo.html Men's skeleton Olympic medalists since 1928]
* [http://sports123.com/ske/mw.html Men's skeleton world championship medalists since 1989]
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