Karen Magnussen

Karen Diane Magnussen, OC ( born April 4, 1952 in Vancouver ) is a former Canadian figure skater who started in a single run. It is the world champion of 1973.

Magnussen began at the age of six years with the figure skating. My first coach was Hellmut May the age of twelve she was Canadian figure skating champion in the juniors. Quick its strength in the freestyle became apparent. In 1967, she was national runner-up in the seniors behind Valerie Jones. That same year she played her first world championship and finished it on the twelfth. In Olympic 1968 Canadian champion Magnussen was in the seniors for the first time. At the World Championships in Geneva as well as at the Olympic Games in Grenoble she finished in seventh place. In 1969, she had to deal with setbacks. First she lost her Canadian championship against Linda Carbo net before a few weeks later were diagnosed with her stress fractures in both legs. This made participation in the World Cup impossible. She had to spend weeks in a wheelchair, with both legs in plaster. During this time, she thought of her resignation, but decided to keep going. By 1970 she was back and better than ever. It was Canadian champion, a title she should defend to 1973, and missed the fourth place at the World Championship medal only extremely tight against the U.S. American Julie Lynn Holmes. At the World Cup 1971 in Lyon Magnussen was able to win bronze behind Beatrix Schuba Holmes and her first World Cup medal.

Like its rival, Janet Lynn from the USA, Magnussen had their strengths in the freestyle. At this time, however, had the Kürwertung in contrast to the compulsory figure rating a low weighting and thus both had no chance against arguably the best duty figure skater in history, Beatrix Schuba of Austria. Schuba won at the 1972 Olympics in Sapporo gold, even though they had been finished only seventh in the freestyle, Lynn and Magnussen, the First and Second had become in the freestyle, won bronze, and silver. Faced with the discontent of the audience about the scoring system, the International Skating Union reduced the weighting of compulsory figures, by introducing a short program from 1973. This, along with the resignation of Schuba motivated the strong Kürläuferinnen Magnussen and Lynn continue. At the World Championships in Bratislava Magnussen ran a nearly flawless short program, Lynn, however, was surprisingly twice. The victory in the freestyle before Magnussen was not enough so Lynn and Karen Magnussen was a unanimous judges' ruling world champion, who until today last Canadian world champion in figure skating.

After the end of her amateur career in 1973, she moved to the pros and ran until 1977 for the Ice Capades revue. After that, she was a trainer in Boston and later in her hometown of Vancouver. She founded a foundation that is designed to enable young, talented figure skaters to receive professional training at an affordable price.

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