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Jennison Heaton

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Jennison Heaton was an American bobsled and skeleton racer, born on 16 April 1904 and died on 6 August 1971. He competed at the 1928 Winter Olympics and won a gold medal in the skeleton event and a silver in the five-man bobsleigh competition. In the skeleton he beat the silver medalist, his younger brother John, by one second. His other brother, Trowbridge, was also a bobsleigh enthusiast, and Jennison later married Beulah Fiske, which made him the brother-in-law of Billy Fiske, also an Olympic bobsledder.

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1904 1
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2-4 1
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was an American bobsled and skeleton racer
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    He competed at the 1928 Winter Olympics and won a gold medal in the skeleton event and a silver in the five-man bobsleigh competition
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    was an American bobsled and skeleton racer
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    April 16, 1904, August 6, 1971
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