Bradley Lord
Bradley Richard Lord ( born August 22, 1939 in Swampscott, Massachusetts, † February 15, 1961 in Mountain Kampenhout, Belgium) was an American figure skater, who started in a single run.
Lord was the son of Roy and Alfreda Lord. He had an older brother, Bruce. At the age of five he began on an improvised ice rink in Abbott Park, across from his house in the Hampden Street to run skates and fell at once into the sport.
Only trained Lord at Lillian Tribby North Shore Sports Center in Lynn, then he moved to the famous Montgomery Wilson and thus to the Skating Club of Boston.
In 1957, he was U.S. junior champion. In the same year he took up studies in commercial art at Boston University. The National Veterans Championships, he was fourth in 1959 and played in Colorado Springs its first World Cup, in which he finished in eighth place. 1960 Lord was again fourth at the U.S. Championships. This time, met him this fourth place very hard, because it had always been his dream to be able to participate again in the Olympic Games and this he had just missed by 94 hundredths. At the World Championships in Vancouver, he finished sixth, and thus, after the resignation of the incumbent Olympic champion and world champion David Jenkins, best Americans.
1961 Bradley Lord in the Broadmoor World Arena in Colorado Springs American champion. He surpassed by a routine that is praised Richard button in the subsequent interview on the ice as "beautifully skated ," Gregory Kelley. Two weeks later he won the silver medal at the North American Championships behind the Canadians Donald Jackson and Kelley before. It was his last appearance. On the way to the World Championships in Prague, the Boeing 707 of Sabena flight 548 crashed on landing at Brussels in mountain Kampenhout. All 72 passengers, the crew and a farmer on the ground were killed, including the entire 18- member U.S. team and their 16 relatives. The World Cup in Prague was canceled.
Lords mother had not been on the plane due to surgery, the first time that she did not accompany him to a tournament. Lord had spent the last days of his life in the house of his brother Bruce and his pregnant wife Johanne to have calm before the public. The couple named their child after his deceased uncle, Bradley.
On the 50th anniversary of the plane crash Bradley Lord 2011 is included in the National Hall of Fame.