Jack Kilpatrick

John Kilpatrick (7 July 1917 – 18 December 1989) was a British ice hockey player who played in the English National League (ENL). He also played for the Great Britain national ice hockey team which won the gold medal at the 1936 Winter Olympics (see Ice hockey at the 1936 Winter Olympics). He is a member of the British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame.

This article is about the British ice hockey player. For other uses, see John Kilpatrick (disambiguation).

Jack Kilpatrick
Born (1917-07-07)7 July 1917
Bootle, England, United Kingdom
Died 18 December 1989(1989-12-18) (aged 72)
Position Left wing
Played for Wembley Lions
National team  Great Britain
Playing career 1935–1937

Career
Olympic medal record
Men's Ice Hockey
Gold medal – first place 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Team

Although Kilpatrick was born in Bootle near Liverpool, he learned to play ice hockey in Canada.[1] Kilpatrick played in the 1935–36 and 1936–37 seasons for the Wembley Lions as a checking forward getting limited ice time.[2]

At the age of just 18 years Kilpatrick was selected to play of the GB national team in the 1936 Winter Olympics. He only played in GB's opening game against Sweden, which GB won 1–0.[2] However, this was enough to earn him a gold medal when GB went on to win the tournament. This made Kilpatrick Britain's youngest Winter Olympic gold medallist at the time.[1][2]

Awards

Footnotes
  1. BBC (29 January 2002). "British skate to victory". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 October 2007.
  2. Martin C. Harris (1999). "Jack Kilpatrick's British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame entry". ihjuk.co.uk. Archived from the original on 11 May 2008. Retrieved 17 October 2007.

References
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