Daniel Ryan (figure skater)
Daniel Ryan 
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| date of death | February 15, 1961 | |||||||||
| Place of death | Berg-Kampenhout, Belgium | |||||||||
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| discipline | Ice dance | |||||||||
| Partner | Carol Peters | |||||||||
| Trainer | Lewis Elkin, Walter Bainbridge |
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Daniel Ryan (* around 1930 ; † February 15, 1961 in Berg-Kampenhout , Belgium ) was an American figure skater who started in ice dancing .
Life
Ryan was raised in Bridgeport , Connecticut by his grandmother, Caroline Naylor . He was a national figure skating master and tried his hand at ice dancing for the first time at Catholic University in Washington DC , which he attended. During his ice dancing career he was trained by Lewis Elkin and Walter "Red" Bainbridge.
His ice dance partner was Carol Peters . With her he won the bronze medal behind the two British ice dance couples Jean Westwood / Lawrence Demmy and Joan Dewhirst / John Slater at the first two world championships in which ice dancing was in the program in 1952 and 1953 .
Ryan ended his competitive career in 1953 and became a coach at the Minto Skating Club in Ottawa . He married the ice skating coach Rose Anne Paquette, with whom he moved to Indianapolis in 1955 to become a coach at the local figure skating club. In this role he coached the 1961 US ice dance masters , Diane Sherbloom and Larry Pierce . As their trainer, he went on board the Sabena flight 548 , which was to bring the United States national team to the World Cup in Prague . The plane crashed in Berg-Kampenhout, Belgium . There were no survivors. Daniel Ryan, 31, left behind his wife and five children, the youngest of whom was two weeks old and the oldest five years.
In 2011 Ryan was inducted into the national Hall of Fame, as was the entire US team that had crashed at the time.
Results
Ice dance
(with Carol Peters )
| Competition / year | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 |
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| World championships | 3. | 3. | |
| American championships | 3. | 2. | 1. |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ US Figure Skating Hall of Fame Members. In: worldskatingmuseum.org. World Figure Skating Museum & Hall of Fame, accessed January 17, 2016 .
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| SURNAME | Ryan, Daniel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American figure skater |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1930 |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 15, 1961 |
| Place of death | Berg-Kampenhout , Belgium |