Jeff Pain
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Jeffrey Thomas "Jeff" Pain[1] (born December 14, 1970) is an American-born Canadian former skeleton racer who competed from 1995 to 2010. He is regarded as one of the most successful male competitors in the history of the Canadian skeleton program.
Pain was born in Anchorage, Alaska. He graduated from the University of British Columbia, where he was a member of the school's varsity track and field team.[2]
Pain has had a 15-year career with 22 World Cup podium finishes in 74 starts, including ten wins,[3] 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 first represented Canada at the 2002 Olympic Winter games, finishing 6th, where Skeleton returned after a 54-year hiatus. Subsequently, Pain went on to compete in the 2006 Winter Olympics where he finished with a silver medal behind fellow Canadian Duff Gibson. One distinguishing feature of Pain's skeleton gear is his custom-painted helmet, depicting the face of an enraged beaver. Pain was married to his wife Aly in 1997, divorced from her in 2022, and they have two sons. Pain now lives in Lethbridge, AB and has a new life partner, Stacey.
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).
He finished in ninth place at the 2010 Winter Olympics racing with a badly injured right oblique muscle. In October 2010, he announced his retirement from competition.[3]
In 2015 Pain was appointed as coach of the Chinese skeleton team after the 2022 Winter Olympics were awarded to Beijing[4] and remained with the Chinese team until 2019. Since then, Pain has coached the Austrian National Skeleton (2022-2023), and is currently the Korean National Skeleton team head coach (2023 - present).
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."第23届平昌冬奥会中国体育代表团名单" [List of the 23rd Pyongchang Winter Olympic Games Chinese Sports Delegation]. State General Administration of Sports (in Chinese). 1 February 2018. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Drexhage, Glenn (8 February 2010). "Insane Pain: Thrill of the Skeleton". UBC Public Affairs. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Christie, James (27 March 2017). "Pain announces retirement from skeleton". theglobeandmail.com. The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Leicester, John (23 February 2018). "China stumbling on path to Olympic glory at 2022 home games". WashingtonPost.com. Archived from the original on 24 February 2018. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
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External links
- Jeff Pain at the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton FederationTemplate:Edit at Wikidata
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