Jay O'Brien (bobsleigh)
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Born | 1883 | |||||||||||||||||
Died | 1940 | (aged 57)|||||||||||||||||
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Jay James O'Brien (February 22, 1883 – April 5, 1940) was an American bobsledder who competed in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He won two medals at the Winter Olympics with a gold in the four-man event at Lake Placid, New York in 1932 and a silver in the five-man event at St. Moritz in 1928. At 48 years old, he was the oldest Olympic champion.
O'Brien was also a jockey, and was head of the United States Olympic Bobsled Committee at the time of the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. He died of a heart attack in 1940.
- 1883 births
- 1940 deaths
- American male bobsledders
- Bobsledders at the 1928 Winter Olympics
- Bobsledders at the 1932 Winter Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in bobsleigh
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States in bobsleigh
- Medalists at the 1928 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 1932 Winter Olympics
- 20th-century American people
- American bobsleigh biography stubs
- American Winter Olympic medalist stubs