Gilbert Colgate
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Gilbert Bayard Colgate Jr. (December 21, 1899 – October 9, 1965) was an American businessman and bobsledder who competed in the 1930s. He won the bronze medal in the two-man event at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, with teammate Richard Lawrence.
Colgate, a 1922 Yale University graduate, and brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi chapter); was also one of five children of Gilbert Colgate Sr., who was the great-grandson of William Colgate, who founded what is now the Colgate-Palmolive Company. He served as a director of the Colgate company and was chairman of the Colgate-Larsen Aircraft Company. Gil Colgate was concerned about the population explosion and became one of the founders of Planned Parenthood.
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- Bobsleigh two-man Olympic medalists 1932-56 and since 1964 Script error: No such module "webarchive".
- DatabaseOlympics.com profile
- Biographical Dictionary of American Business article on Colgate's father - Accessed August 11, 2007.
- Ivy League sports featuring Colgate
- "Sport: Bobbers". Time. March 5, 1934.
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