Dick Button won the world figure skating title Feb. 29, 1952, 8 days after his Olympic gold in this Norway city
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Dick Button - Wikipedia  Gold medal  first place, 1952 Oslo  Singles. Gold medal  first place, 1948 St. Moritz  Singles. Richard Totten "Dick" Button (born July 18, 1929) is an American former figure skater and a well-known long-time skating television analyst. He is a twice Olympic Champion (1948, 1952) and five-time World .... He then went on to defend his titles at the 1952 World Figure Skating...
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Dick Button wins second Olympic figure skating gold - Feb 21, 1952 ...  On this day in 1952, men's figure skater Dick Button wins his second Olympic gold medal. ... the 1948 Olympics, becoming the first American to ever take home the men's title. After dominating men's figure skating at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics, Button ... On February 21, 1952, at the Olympic Games in Oslo, Norway, Button...
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Dick Button facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  Get information, facts, and pictures about Dick Button at Encyclopedia.com. ... scene more than fifty years after he won his second of two Olympic Gold Medals. ... from 1946 to 1952 and claimed the World Championship titles from 1948 to 1952. ... In 1946 the United States Figure Skating Association (USFSA) resumed its...
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Olympic Winter Games - The Canadian Encyclopedia  Figure skating and ice hockey (won by the Winnipeg Falcons) were both ... After their gold medal performance the team toured Europe, introducing large ... In men's figure skating, American Dick Button performed the first double Axel in competition. ... 1952: Winter Olympic Games: Oslo, Norway (February 14-February 25).
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1952 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia  The 1952 Winter Olympics (Norwegian: Vinter-OL 1952), officially known as the VI Olympic ... Instead, Oslo won the right to host the 1952 Games in a contest that included Cortina ... to claim his second consecutive men's figure skating Olympic title. ..... Norwegian athletes won the ski jumping gold medal in every Winter...
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World Figure Skating Hall of Fame - Wikipedia  The World Figure Skating Hall of Fame serves as a repository for the sport of figure skating. The World Figure Skating Hall of Fame is where the greatest names in the history of the sport are honored. The World Figure Skating Museum and Hall of Fame is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, ... Skaters such as Dick Button, Katarina Witt, Midori Ito, Sonja Henie, and...
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Winter Olympic Games - Wikipedia  The Winter Olympic Games is a major international sporting event that occurs once every four ... Until 1992, the Winter and Summer Olympic Games were held in the same ..... Frenchman Jean-Claude Killy became only the second person to win all the .... Bjrn Dhlie of Norway won three gold medals in Nordic skiing.
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Ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia  The men's ice hockey tournament at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, U.S.A., was the 14th Olympic Championship. Twelve teams competed in the tournament, which was held from February 12 to 24. The United States won its second gold medal, including a win over the heavily favored Soviet Union ... The Soviets had won every Winter Olympics ice hockey tournament since...
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1980 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia  The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIII Olympic Winter Games was a multi-sport ... Robin Cousins won gold for Great Britain in the men's singles figure skating. East Germany ... This led the International Ski Federation (ISF) to time all events to the nearest 1/10 second in the future. ... 10, Switzerland, 1, 1, 3, 5...
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Speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia  Speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics, was held from 9 February to 18 February. Nine events were contested at James B. Sheffield Olympic Skating Rink. Contents. [hide]. 1 Medal summary. 1.1 Medal table; 1.2 Men's events; 1.3 Women's events ... The United States led the medal table with five gold medals, thanks to Eric...
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Gymnastics 101: Olympic history | NBC Olympics  Mar 10, 2016 ... Its men and women sweep the team events, and two natives of Ukraine win the ... Mexico City, 1968: Four years after winning all-around gold in Tokyo, Vera ... In all, Japan wins 16 of the 24 men's gymnastics medals awarded in Munich. .... The 16-year-old from Texas defeats three-time world champion...
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Rafer Johnson - ESPN.com  6, 1960. If Johnson came within 10 seconds of Yang's time in the 1,500, the ... the hometown of Bob Mathias, who would win the decathlon in the 1948 and 1952 Olympics. ... In 1956, he won his first national decathlon championship. ... Johnson had the gold medal, setting a then-Olympic record of 8,392 points in the process...
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1936 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia  The 1936 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IV Olympic Winter Games (German: Olympische Winterspiele 1936), were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1936 in the market town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria, Germany. Germany also hosted the Summer Olympics the same year in Berlin. ... Sonja Henie won her third consecutive gold medal in woman's figure skating...
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J! Archive - Show #1851, aired 1992-09-28  This Norwegian won the women's figure skating gold medal in 1928, 1932 & ... In the 1890s this "girl" created by an illustrator popularized shirtwaists for women...
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Sports and Athletes Flashcards | Quizlet  Defeating Jack Sharkey, this German won the World Heavyweight boxing title ... As the world figure skating champion from 1927 to 1936, she must have put on...
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Skating stars connect to those lost 50 years ago - USA Today  Jan 26, 2011 ... ... the 1960 Olympic women's figure skating gold medalist, received a ... Fleming won five national titles from 1964 to 1968, then the Olympic gold medal. ... off and I was in hand-me-down costumes and skates," she said over...
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Peggy Fleming - Wikipedia  Peggy Gail Fleming (born July 27, 1948) is an American former figure skater. She is the 1968 Olympic Champion in Ladies' singles and a three-time World Champion (19661968). Fleming has been a television commentator in figure skating for over 20 ... to American dominance in the sport of women's figure skating following the...
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Speed Skating - Winter Olympic Sports - Topend Sports  About Speed Skating at the Winter Olympic Games. ... Track Speed Skating), and has a longer history at the Olympics than the shorter version. ... (Summer and Winter) was American Eric Heiden, when he won all five men's speed skating ... Also in 1994, Bonnie Blair of the USA won two speed skating gold medals, which...
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Erich Heiden -- good as gold at Olympics - CSMonitor.com  Feb 21, 1980 ... Lake Placid, N.Y.  Talk about being put on the spot. ... blades to the Olympic speed skating oval here, he had appeared on the covers of Time and Sports Illustrated. On the latter, he's pictured pumping through a curve, his sculptured ... a reporter here asked if he was braced to become a national hero,...
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10 words you need to know for figure skating | OxfordWords blog  Feb 10, 2014 ... Figure skating has been featured at the Olympics since 1908, which means ... a jump in skating from the forward outside blade edge of one skate to the ... No skater has yet to land a quadruple axel (4 turns) in competition. ... This jump is named after Austrian skater Alois Lutz, who first performed it in 1913.
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Floyd Patterson - New World Encyclopedia  At 21, Patterson became the youngest man then to have won the world ... He was also the first Olympic gold medalist to win a world heavyweight title. ... After a series of defenses, Patterson met Ingemar Johansson of Sweden, in the beginning ... to regain the title again, but Liston once more knocked him out in the first round.