American Jennison Heaton won the first Olympic skeleton gold medal at St Moritz in 1928, beating his brother John, who took the silver. Jennison then won a silver in the five man bobsleigh in the same Games. John, meanwhile, won a bronze medal in the two man bob at Lake Placid in 1932 before claiming another silver in the skeleton, when the Olympics returned to St Moritz in 1948, at the age of 39. The Heaton Gold Cup remains one of the classic skeleton events of the St. Moritz "Cresta" season.