Theresa Weld

Theresa Weld Blanchard ( born August 21, 1893 in Brookline, Massachusetts; † 12 March 1978 in Boston, Massachusetts ) was an American figure skater who started in a single run and pair skating.

Theresa Weld was the daughter of A. Windsor Weld, a founding member of the Boston Skating Club, who, instead of the old-fashioned English style with its minimal body movements, taught the modern, free -flowing and international style, the Jackson Haines had made popular. At the age of twelve years Weld professional figure skating lessons began to take.

In a single run, it was 1914, the first U.S. champion. From 1920 to 1924 she won the national championship five times in a row. She participated in any single world championship in a single run. But she denied three Olympic Games. In her first Olympic Games she won the bronze medal in 1920 in Antwerp behind the Swedes Magda Julin and Svea Norén. She became the first athlete that did not come from Europe and won an Olympic medal in figure skating. In these games, she was the first woman who showed a Salchow, they also jumped a Rittberger. For this she was reprimanded, however, because it was considered unladylike and punished by some judges with deductions. 1924 in Chamonix was Weld Fourth and Tenth 1928 in St. Moritz.

In pair skating Weld won on the side of Nathaniel Niles the U.S. championship in 1918 and 1920 until 1927. With these nine tracks are record holder in the pair competition at the U.S. Championships. They participated in three World Cups, but was able to win a medal. In 1928 she was seventh, 1930 Sixth and Eighth 1932. They also run three Olympic Games. In Antwerp in 1920 they were placed in fourth, 1924 in Chamonix in sixth and in 1928 in St. Moritz in ninth.

Weld married in 1920 Charles Blanchard. She stood the Figure Skating closely connected even after the end of her career. In 1923 she called a meeting with Nathaniel Niles the Skating Magazine to life, the official magazine of the Figure Skating U.S. Figure Skating Association and remained its editor until 1963. Up to Nathaniel Niles death in 1932 he was co-editor.

Results

Single run

Pair of running

( with Nathaniel Niles )

Summer Olympic Games Figure skating at the 1920 Summer Olympics Brookline (Massachusetts) Single skating U. S. Figure Skating Championships Loop jump 1928 World Figure Skating Championships 1930 World Figure Skating Championships 1932 World Figure Skating Championships List of Olympic medalists in figure skating Beatrix Loughran Maribel Vinson Gretchen Merrill Yvonne Sherman Sonya Klopfer Tenley Albright Carol Heiss Laurence Owen Barbara Roles Peggy Fleming Janet Lynn Dorothy Hamill Elaine Zayak Rosalynn Sumners Tiffany Chin Debi Thomas Jill Trenary Tonya Harding Kristi Yamaguchi Nancy Kerrigan Nicole Bobek Michelle Kwan Sasha Cohen Kimmie Meissner Mirai Nagasu Alissa Czisny Rachael Flatt Ashley Wagner Gracie Gold Sherwin Badger Peter Kennedy (figure skater) Nancy Ludington Ronald Ludington Maribel Owen Dudley Richards Vivian Joseph Ronald Joseph Cynthia Kauffman Ronald Kauffman Kenneth Shelley Melissa Militano Mark Militano Randy Gardner (figure skater) Kitty Carruthers Jill Watson Peter Oppegard Todd Sand Jenni Meno John Zimmerman (figure skater)

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