Douglas Ramsay

Douglas Alexander Ramsay (* 1945, † February 15, 1961 in Mountain Kampenhout, Belgium) was an American figure skater, who started in a single run.

Ramsay was the second of four children of Alex and Jean Ramsey. At the age of eight years, the actual Eishockeyenthusiast Ramsay took professional figure skating lessons with Bill Swallender. He had weaknesses in the duty, but was a very good and rousing Kürläufer what it mostly made ​​a favorite of the audience. In 1960 he won the national championship in the junior in one of the scarcest decisions of history, Bruce Heiss, brother of Carol Heiss and the later Star coach Frank Carroll. In his first Senior Championships Ramsay finished 1961 in fourth place behind Bradley Lord, Gregory Kelley and Tim Brown. He showed a triple jump as the only. Only the first three were qualified for the World Championships in Prague, but Tim Brown had to cancel because of a flu and as Ramsay moved shortly after what was to be his undoing.

Together with his coach Bill Swallender Ramsay went on board the Sabena flight 548, which was to take them to the World Championships in Prague. The night flight should stop over in Brussels. There, however, the pilot had to take break and new start-up, to try it on a different runway landing approach. Here, the plane crashed on farmland 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.

Results

• J = Junior