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John Brendan Kelly Jr., also known as Kell Kelly, was an American athlete, a rower, a four-time Olympian, and an Olympic medal winner. He was the son of triple Olympic gold medal winner Jack Kelly Sr., and the elder brother of the actress and Princess of Monaco, Grace Kelly. In 1947, Kelly was awarded the James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States. He served a ...
4 de mar. de 1985 · PHILADELPHIA -- John B. (Jack) Kelly Jr., 57, the president of the U.S. Olympic Committee and former Olympic rowing medalist who was a brother of the late Princess Grace of Monaco, collapsed and ...
5 min. Rowing. (IOC) John B. Kelly was born in Philadelphia on 4 October 1889, one of a family of 10 children. His Irish parents had emigrated to the United States a few years earlier. Athletic and also tall for his time (1.89m), he learned to row on the Schuylkill River that crosses Pennsylvania and flows into the Delaware River in Philadelphia.
23 de mai. de 2017 · He was one of the most accomplished and famous athletes of his time.He didn’t race at Henley, but his son, John B. Kelly Jr., won the Diamond Sculls in 1947 and 1949. In his private life, Kelly was a family man, married to his long-time girlfriend Margaret Katherine Majer, an instructor and a coach of women’s teams in the University of Pennsylvania Physical Education Department.
17 de set. de 2020 · John Brendan Kelly, father of Princess grace of Monaco, won two Olympic Gold medals in 1920 and one in 1924, competing in a sport which was the reserve of gentlemen, the single and double sculls. He remains the only American ever to win the Gold in single sculls. Kelly came from a family of achievers, whose story is embedded in Irish America. His daughter, Grace Kelly, became the world's ...
7 de set. de 2020 · John B. Kelly Jr réussira ce que son père n'avait pu accomplir : en 1947, il remporte, à sa plus grande fierté, le Diamond Scull à Henley-on-Thames et réédite cet exploit en 1949. Il participe à quatre éditions des Jeux Olympiques de 1948 à 1960 et s'adjuge une médaille de bronze en skiff à Melbourne en 1956.
4 de mar. de 1985 · NEW YORK —. The particular irony in the death while jogging of U.S. Olympic Committee President John B. (Jack) Kelly Jr. is that in many respects he had come to epitomize the growing interest in ...
