Pete Leichnitz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian ice hockey player
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Place of Birth: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
About Pete Leichnitz
- Julius Karl "Pete" Leichnitz (July 28, 1926 – November 19, 2011), sometimes referred to as J.K.
- Leitchnitz, was a Canadian ice hockey player.
- He was a member of the Ottawa RCAF Flyers who won the gold medal in ice hockey for Canada at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St.
- Moritz.The 1948 Winter Olympics were to be held in St.
- Moritz, Switzerland.
- They were then officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games as they were the first Olympic games to be celebrated after World War II.
- In the fall of 1947, the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association invited the RCAF to form Canada's Olympic ice hockey squad.Although Leichnitz traveled to St.
- Moritz as a member of Canada national hockey team, due to tournament rules that allowed teams to dress only twelve players, Leichnitz was a used as a reserve and did not get into game play during the 1948 Olympics.
- Nonetheless, Leichnitz was a member of the team that won Canada's first gold medal in Olympic hockey since 1932, and he was given an Olympic Gold Medal.
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