Bartholomew, Kenneth E.
Speed skating
b. Feb. 10, 1920
His long career was interrupted by World War II, but Bartholomew nevertheless won more speed skating championships than any other American. He won the U. S. outdoor championship for the first time in 1939, when he was nineteen, and for the last time in 1960, when he was forty years old. He also won the title in 1941, 1942, 1947, from 1950 through 1956, and in 1959, and he tied for the championship in 1957.
Bartholomew was North American outdoor champion in 1941, 1942, and 1956. He and U. S. teammate Bobby Fitzgerald tied for the silver medal in the 500-meter race with a time of 43.2 seconds at the 1948 Winter Olympics.