Tenley Albright

Tenley Emma Albright ( born July 18, 1935 in Newton Centre, Massachusetts ) is a former American figure skater who started in a single run. She is the Olympic champion of 1956 and the world champion of 1953 and 1955.

Albright was from 1952 to 1956 U.S. champion in figure skating ladies. She took from 1951 to 1956 at the world championships. In 1954 and 1956 she was Vice World Champion behind Gundi Busch, and Carol Heiss. 1953 in Davos and in Vienna in 1955 she became world champion. She was the first U.S. world champion in figure skating ladies.

In her first Olympics in 1952 Albright won the silver medal in Oslo after the British Jeannette Altwegg. Four years later, she suggested, despite a cut on his leg, which she had suffered in training, her compatriot and rival Carol Heiss in Cortina d' Ampezzo and became Olympic champion. It was the first time that a U.S. citizen was in figure skating Olympic champion.

After her Olympic victory in 1956 she resigned from active competition and changed not know how many other skaters, to the professionals. Instead, she studied at the Harvard Medical School, which she successfully completed in 1961. During her career, she had studied at Radcliffe College in 1953. She then worked as a surgeon. Your interest in the subject was aroused medicine at an early age, as she was ill as a child from poliomyelitis. Albright's husband is the former Ritz-Carlton hotel owner Gerald Blakely.

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