- Charles Jewtraw
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Olympic medal record Men’s Speed Skating Gold 1924 Chamonix 500 m Charles Jewtraw (5 May 1900 in Clinton County, New York – 26 January 1996 in Palm Beach, Florida) was an American speed skater, best known for being first recipient of a gold medal at the first Winter Olympics.
Biography
Charles Jewtraw grew up near Lake Placid, New York and became the first gold medalist of the Winter Olympics by winning the opening event of the first Winter Olympic Games in Chamonix 1924: the 500 m speed skating.
At these games he also competed in the 5000 m speed-skate (placed 13th[1]) and in the 1500 m (placed 8th).
He retired as a speed-skater after the 1924 Olympic Games and became a representative for the Spalding Sporting Goods Company.
External links
References
- ^ "1924 5000 m results". http://users.skynet.be/hermandw/olymp/sqsskm50.html. Retrieved 2006-07-23.
Olympic Champions in Men's 500 m Speed Skating 1924: Charles Jewtraw | 1928: Bernt Evensen + Clas Thunberg | 1932: Jack Shea | 1936: Ivar Ballangrud | 1948: Finn Helgesen | 1952: Ken Henry | 1956: Yevgeny Grishin | 1960: Yevgeny Grishin | 1964: Terry McDermott | 1968: Erhard Keller | 1972: Erhard Keller | 1976: Yevgeny Kulikov | 1980: Eric Heiden | 1984: Sergey Fokichev | 1988: Uwe-Jens Mey | 1992: Uwe-Jens Mey | 1994: Aleksandr Golubev | 1998: Hiroyasu Shimizu | 2002: Casey FitzRandolph | 2006: Joey Cheek | 2010: Mo Tae-BumCategories:- 1900 births
- 1996 deaths
- American speed skaters
- Olympic speed skaters of the United States
- Speed skaters at the 1924 Winter Olympics
- People from Clinton County, New York
- Olympic medalists in speed skating
- American speed skating biography stubs
- American Winter Olympic medalist stubs
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