Maribel Owen

Maribel Yerxa Owen ( born April 25, 1940 in Boston, Massachusetts, † February 15, 1961 in Mountain Kampenhout, Belgium) was an American figure skater who started in pair skating.

Maribel Owen was the first-born daughter of the nine-time U.S. champion in figure skating, Maribel Vinson and Canadian figure skater Guy Owen. Her younger sister Laurence was also a figure skater. Both were trained by her mother.

Owen began at the age of two years and nine months with the ice skating. At that time the family lived in Berkeley, California. When she later moved back to Boston, Owen formed with Charles Foster, who later became President of the U.S. Skating Association, a pair of running pair. In 1956, she was national junior champion. However, Foster decided to study medicine and so Owen had to find a new partner. It was Dudley Richards. With him, she took part in the 1960 Olympic Games. You occupied there, as well as in the subsequent World Cup, the tenth place. 1961 were U.S. champion. In addition to figure skating Owen studied at Boston University sociology and anthropology.

As reigning U.S. champion were Owen and Richards, as well as her sister Laurence and her mother Maribel aboard 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. The mortal remains of the Vinson - Owen were transferred to the United States and in Story Chapel Columbarium the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, buried. 2011 to Owen, as well as the entire U.S. team was killed at that time, be included in the National Hall of Fame.

Results

Pair of running

( with Dudley Richards )

U. S. Figure Skating Championships Laurence Owen 1960 World Figure Skating Championships Cambridge (Massachusetts) Beatrix Loughran Sherwin Badger Yvonne Sherman Peter Kennedy (figure skater) Nancy Ludington Ronald Ludington Vivian Joseph Ronald Joseph Cynthia Kauffman Ronald Kauffman Kenneth Shelley Melissa Militano Mark Militano Randy Gardner (figure skater) Kitty Carruthers Jill Watson Peter Oppegard Kristi Yamaguchi Todd Sand Jenni Meno John Zimmerman (figure skater)
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