Andy Roesch (1906-1977) was a champion speed skater in the 1920s.
Roesch was born in
Smithtown, New York
Smithtown is a town in Suffolk County, New York on the North Shore of Long Island. It is part of the New York metropolitan area. The population was 116,296 at the 2020 Census.
The census-designated place (CDP) of Smithtown lies within the tow ...
in 1906, son of Main Street, Smithtown barbershop owner Andrew Roesch and his wife, Johanna Roesch.
Races
He won a three-mile race on Hessian Pond in New York in February 1927. He was a member of the first
United States Speed Skating Team In 1929 he won the New York Silver Skates finishing the two-mile course in 6:52.
Roesch was nominated for the 1936 Olympics. He lost his amateur status, however, when he took a job teaching figure skating at the Brooklyn Ice Palace.
Later life
Roesch became a welder at the Jakobson Shipyard in Oyster Bay. In September 1976, at age 70, he fell while skating on a local pond and broke his neck. He died in 1977 in
Newton, Massachusetts
Newton is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is approximately west of downtown Boston. Newton resembles a patchwork of thirteen villages, without a city center. According to the 2020 U.S. Census, the population of Ne ...
after spending time at the New England Spinal Cord Rehabilitation Center.
References
Additional sources
Chicago Daily News almanac listing of Roesch
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1906 births
1977 deaths
American male speed skaters