Walter Lawrence "Pud" Kitchen (December 18, 1912 – July 18, 1988) was a

Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice h ...

player who competed in the

1936 Winter Olympics The 1936 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IV Olympic Winter Games (german: IV. Olympische Winterspiele) and commonly known as Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 ( bar, Garmasch-Partakurch 1936), were a winter multi-sport event held from 6 to 16 ...

. As owner of the horse Hail To Patsy, he won the 1969 Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs.Walter Kitchen at Sports Reference
/ref> Kitchen was a member of the 1936 Port Arthur Bearcats, which won the silver medal for

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ice hockey at the 1936 Winter Olympics The men's ice hockey tournament at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, was the fifth Olympic Championship, also serving as the tenth World Championships and the 21st European Championships. The British national ice hoc ...

. In 1987 he was inducted into the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame as a member of that Olympic team.

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1912 births 1988 deaths Canadian ice hockey defencemen Ice hockey people from Toronto Ice hockey players at the 1936 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1936 Winter Olympics Olympic ice hockey players for Canada Olympic medalists in ice hockey Olympic silver medalists for Canada Toronto Marlboros players 20th-century Canadian people {{Canada-Olympic-medalist-stub