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28 unusual facts about Lake Placid


1931 Allan Cup

This team also won the Keane Memorial Cup as Winnipeg's city champions, the Pattinson Cup as Manitoba's provincial champions, as well as the Olympic and world championship held in Lake Placid, New York the following year.

1965 United States Figure Skating Championships

The event was held at the (1932) Olympic Arena in Lake Placid, New York, from February 10 to 13, 1965.

Amanda Stepenko

Stepenko also finished 11th at the 2009 FIBT World Championships in Lake Placid

Her best finish in the Bobsleigh World Cup was sixth in the two-woman event at Lake Placid in December 2006.

Bronisław Czech

Four years later, at the 1932 Winter Olympics held in Lake Placid, New York, Czech was 7th in the Nordic combined, 12th in ski jumping and 18th in the 18 km cross-country event.

Caladium

Every July(the last week-end), a festival is held in Lake Placid, Florida, home to a majority of the world's caladium fields.

Camp Canadensis

Canadensis Lower Seniors spend 3 days and 2 nights in Lake Placid, New York each summer.

China women's national ice hockey team

:12 April 1994: 1994 IIHF Women's World Championship in Lake Placid, United States.

Chris Winnes

Recruited by a number of teams out of Northwood Prep School in Lake Placid, New York, Winnes was selected by the Boston Bruins in the 1987 Entry Draft (9th choice, 161st overall).

Claude C. Robinson

He managed the Canadian team at the 1932 Winter Olympic games, which were played at Lake Placid, New York.

Cody Sorensen

He is a 4 time World Cup medalist including third place in the four-man event at Park City and Lake Placid in December 2010.

Flowchart

In the early 1930s, an industrial engineer, Allan H. Mogensen began training business people in the use of some of the tools of industrial engineering at his Work Simplification Conferences in Lake Placid, New York.

Giulio Capitanio

Competing in three Winter Olympics in the 4 x 10 km relay, he earned his best finish of sixth at Lake Placid, New York in 1980.

Igor Šarčević

At the FIBT World Championships 2009 in Lake Placid, New York, He finished 32nd in the two-man event while crashing out in the four-man event.

Irving Dardik

As a result, Dr. George Goodheart was sent to the XIIIth Winter Olympic Games, in Lake Placid, NY and a Volunteer Doctor Program for DC's at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs was begun.

In 1980, following the Lake Placid Olympic Games he helped direct the first Olympic Sports Medicine Conference (Feb 26 through 29) in Boston.

Jesus Castellanos

In 1911, Castellanos went to Lake Placid, New York hoping to improve his health which since his youth had been poor.

John Deere snowmobiles

In 1980, John Deere was the official supplier of snowmobiles for the Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York.

Lake Placid Conference Center

Dewey is credited with convincing the town council to rename the Lake, (and sub sequentially the town), from Lake Stearns to Lake Placid after the town of Lake Placid, New York, where his main residence was located.

Lake Placid funnel wolf spider

The Lake Placid Funnel wolf spider (Sosippus placidus) is a species of spider in the Lycosidae family.

Lake Placid: The Final Chapter

Clear Lake is being corralled by the Army Corps of Engineers, with a 10,000 voltages electric barrier quarantine to lock the crocodiles in the lake, purposing to let the crocodiles starve and die off, in spite of that fact that world's population of crocodiles is decreasing day by day.

Leonard John Brass

He was associated with the Archbold Biological Station at Lake Placid, Florida, for which he helped to formulate the organizational structure it has today, and also where he lived between expeditions.

Minto Follies

“It all began for me in the winter of 1932, when I was taken to see the ‘Minto Follies,’ which that year, had a special attraction - the Olympic Champions who had only weeks before won there gold medals at a Lake Placid, New York.”

Nicole Davis

She trained with the USA A2 Women's National Team in Lake Placid, New York, during the summer of 2003.

Pan American Games

Lake Placid, New York tried to organize Winter Games in 1959 but, again, not enough countries expressed interest.

Peter Gschnitzer

He won the silver medal in the men's doubles event at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.

Ron Reusch

For CTV, he covered the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York (ice hockey), the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta (ice hockey), the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain (baseball), and the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway (speed skating).

TJ Galiardi

Galiardi, a dual citizen of the United States and Canada, chose to represent Team USA and initially attended USA Hockey's 2007 evaluation camp in Lake Placid, New York but was unable to gain selection to the 2007 World Junior Championships.


1972 Winter Universiade

The 1972 Winter Universiade, the VII Winter Universiade, took place in Lake Placid, New York, United States.

Agostino Lanfranchi

Competing in two Winter Olympics, he finished fourth in the men's skeleton event at St. Moritz in 1928, and Lake Placid, New York in 1932, he finished fifth in the four-man event and eighth in the two-man event (misspelled Agostini in the two-man event).

Biathlon at the Winter Olympics

At the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, the men's 4×7.5 km relay debuted, followed by the 10 km sprint event at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.

Bids for the 1932 Winter Olympics

It saw Lake Placid, United States, be selected ahead of the US candidates Yosemite Valley, Lake Tahoe, Bear Mountain, Duluth, Minneapolis and Denver, and Oslo, Norway and Montreal, Canada.

Black Mountain of Maine

The cross-country trails were designed by Rumford native and two-time Olympian Chummy Broomhall, who also designed the cross country trails for the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California and the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York.

Choir of Young Believers

After the breakup of his previous band, Lake Placid, in 2006, Makrigiannis moved to the Greek island of Samos and began developing his own solo material.

Dave Tyler

He was part of the 1980 Olympic delegation at Lake Placid, and escorted the Japanese team into the Olympic Village.

Errol Kerr

He opened the 2008–09 season with a thirtieth place in St. Johann in Tirol and a fifteenth place in Lake Placid, and then tenth place worldwide at the Skicross World Championships 2009 in Japan.

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1970

This was the first championships that timed the results in hundredths of a second, a practice that continued until the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid when Sweden's Thomas Wassberg edged out Finland's Juha Mieto by 0.01 seconds in the men's 15 km event.

Give It All You Got

The song was originally featured as the official theme of the 1980 Winter Olympics, held in Lake Placid, New York.

Hirokazu Yagi

His best known finish was a Silver Medal in the Individual Normal Hill at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, (Tied with Manfred Deckert of East Germany).

Ingrīda Amantova

Competing in two Winter Olympics, she won the bronze medal in the women's singles event at Lake Placid, New York in 1980 and finished fourth in the same event at the following Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.

Jouni Pellinen

In freestyle skiing he made his World Cup debut in January 2009 in St. Johann in Tirol, and collected his first World Cup points the same month, with a 5th place in Flaine and a twelfth place in Lake Placid.

Kay Stenshjemmet

At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, Stenshjemmet won silver on the 1500 m and on the 5000 m, both behind Eric Heiden.

Manfred Deckert

Deckert represented Klingenthal at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York winning a silver medal in the normal hill competition (Tied with Hirokazu Yagi of Japan.).

Oloph Granath

Karl Oloph Granath (born October 17, 1951 in Kolsva) is a former ice speed skater from Sweden, who represented his native country at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States.

Piet Kleine

Kleine participated again in the Winter Olympics of Lake Placid (1980), winning Olympic silver on the 10,000 m behind Eric Heiden.

Revolutionary Trails Council

Backpacking treks usually utilize the Northville-Placid Trail that stretches from Lake Placid to Northville, New York.

Shauna Rohbock

At the 2009 world championships in Lake Placid, New York, she won a silver medal in the two-woman event with Elana Meyers, then won a bronze in the mixed team event.

Thomas G. Osenton

Osenton was press chief for ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, and directed the press operations for the tournament that resulted in the 1980 U.S. Hockey team's Gold medal Miracle on Ice.

Yevgeny Kulikov

As the defending 500 m Olympic Champion and world record holder, he won silver at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, being beaten by Eric Heiden.