Diane Towler

Diane Towler behaves. Green (born 16 December 1946 in London) is a former British figure skater who started in ice dancing.

Your Eistanzpartner was Bernard Ford The couple, who was trained by Gladys Hogg, 1966 in Bratislava for the first time European Champion and World Champion in Davos for the first time. In 1967 she defended this title at the European Championships in Ljubljana and the World Championships in Vienna. Also in 1968 they were unstoppable and were in Västerås European Champion and World Champion in Geneva. In 1969 she won the European Championship in Garmisch -Partenkirchen their fourth and last European title and at the World Championships in Colorado Springs also their fourth and final world title. At the World Cup, they referred this future world champion Lyudmila and Alexander Gorshkov Pakhomova from the Soviet Union, acting unanimously on the second place. Then Towler and Ford ended their amateur career and performed at ice revues.

The four-time British champion in 1968 took the Vorführwettbewerben in ice dancing at the Olympic Winter Games in part. Ice Dancing was only in 1976 olympic.

With four world titles, Diane Towler and Bernard Ford lined up in the ranks of successful British ice dancers. As they had brought Jean Westwood and Lawrence Demmy and Courtney Jones on four world titles. International they are surpassed only by Lyudmila and Alexander Gorshkov Pakhomova who brought it to a total of six titles.

Towler and Ford was awarded the Order of the British Empire. In 1993 they were included in the Figure Skating Hall of Fame.

After her partner went to Canada, she became a trainer. Among her pupils were the bronze medal winners of the 1972 European Championship, Janet Sawbridge and Peter Dalby and her twin daughters Candice and Phillipa.

Results

Ice Dancing

( with Bernard Ford)

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