Jeff Pain

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Medal record
Skeleton
Olympic Games
Silver 2006 Turin Men
World Championships
Gold 2003 Nagano Men
Gold 2005 Calgary Men
Silver 2001 Calgary Men

Jeff Pain (born on December 14, 1970 in Anchorage, 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 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 also won three medals in the men's skeleton event at the FIBT World Championships with two golds (2003, 2005) and a silver (2001).

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World champions in men's skeleton.
1982: Gert Elsässer * 1989: Alain Wicki * 1990: Michael Grünberger * 1991: Christian Auer * 1992: Bruce Sandford * 1993: Andi Schmid * 1994: Gregor Stähli * 1995: Jürg Wenger * 1996: Ryan Davenport * 1997: Ryan Davenport * 1998: Willy Schneider * 1999: Jimmy Shea * 2000: Andy Böhme * 2001: Martin Rettl * 2003: Jeff Pain * 2004: Duff Gibson * 2005: Jeff Pain * 2007: Gregor Stähli * 2008: Kristan Bromley
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World Cup champions in men's skeleton
1986-7: Andi Schmid * 1987-8: Andi Schmid * 1988-9: Alain Wicki * 1989-90: Christian Auer * 1990-1: Christian Auer * 1991-2: Christian Auer * 1992-3: Franz Plangger * 1993-4: Christian Auer * 1994-5: Christian Auer * 1995-6: Ryan Davenport * 1996-7: Alexander Müller * 1997-8: Willy Schneider * 1998-9: Andy Böhme * 1999-2000: Andy Böhme * 2000-1: Lincoln DeWitt * 2001-2: Gregor Stähli * 2002-3: Chris Soule * 2003-4: Kristan Bromley * 2004-5: Jeff Pain * 2005-6: Jeff Pain * 2006-7: Zach Lund * 2007-8: Kristan Bromley
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