16 Facts About Jon Montgomery

Jon Montgomery won the gold medal in the men's skeleton event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Jon Montgomery started skeleton racing when he lived in Calgary where he worked as an auctioneer not far from Canada Olympic Park in Calgary.

Jon Montgomery was immediately hooked on the sport and soon started racing competitively.

Jon Montgomery won two silver medals at the 2008 FIBT World Championships in Altenberg, Germany, in the men's skeleton and mixed bobsleigh bobsleigh-skeleton team event.

Jon Montgomery celebrated exuberantly at first but quickly apologised to Dukurs for his celebration.

Jon Montgomery became the second Canadian in a row to win gold in the men's event, after Duff Gibson in 2006.

Jon Montgomery stated that he hopes his gold medal performance inspires more people to enter amateur sports, and went on to reassure mothers that skeleton is a safe sport for children to enter.

Jon Montgomery said that he hopes his gold medal victory will help to establish an all-amateur sports channel for Canadian athletes.

Jon Montgomery wore an image of a painted turtle on the crown of his helmet while racing and said he had decided to do so after finding one trying to cross the road in British Columbia.

Jon Montgomery failed to qualify for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and then announced he was "99 per cent sure" his skeleton career was over.

Jon Montgomery was among the 2019 inductees into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame.

In 2011, Jon Montgomery appeared as a judge for a Quickfire Challenge on the fifteenth episode of Top Chef: Texas.

On June 5,2013, it was announced that Jon Montgomery would be the host of CTV's The Amazing Race Canada.

Jon Montgomery is married to Darla Jon Montgomery, who is a skeleton athlete.

Jon Montgomery looks up to fellow Russell native Theoren Fleury.

Jon Montgomery is an alumnus of the Canadian Automotive Institute, now the Automotive Business School of Canada, Georgian College.