Barbara Ann Scott

Barbara Ann Scott
nation	Canada
birthday	May 9, 1928
place of birth	Ottawa , Canada
date of death	30th September 2012 (age 84)
Place of death	Amelia Island , Florida , USA
Career
discipline	Single run
Trainer	Otto Gold, Sheldon Galbraith
End of career	1948
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 2 × 0 × 0 × EM medals 2 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold St. Moritz 1948 Ladies  World figure skating championships gold Stockholm 1947 Ladies gold Davos 1948 Ladies  European figure skating championships gold Davos 1947 Ladies gold Prague 1948 Ladies

Barbara Ann Scott ( OC , O.Ont ; born May 9, 1928 in Ottawa , Ontario ; † September 30, 2012 in Amelia Island , Florida ) was a Canadian figure skater who started in a single run . She is the Olympic champion of 1948 , the world champion of 1947 and 1948 as well as the European champion of 1947 and 1948 .

Career

Barbara Ann Scott was the youngest of three children of Colonel Clyde Rutherford Scott and his wife, Mary Purves, who were badly wounded and almost buried alive in World War I.

Barbara Ann Scott began figure skating at the age of seven at the Minto Skating Club of Ottawa. In 1939 she was already Canadian junior champion. A year later she repeated this title win. In 1941 and 1942 she first took part in the national senior championships and was second behind Mary Rose Thacker both times . In 1942 she was the first woman to win a double Lutz in a competition. Your trainers were Otto Gold and Sheldon Galbraith .

Barbara Ann Scott and Hans Gerschwiler

Scott's father died in 1941, making it difficult for the family to finance their training. In 1944, 1945, 1946 and 1948 Scott became Canadian Senior Champion, and in 1945 and 1947 she also won the North American Championships at the time. In 1947 she finally won her first major international title. She became European champion in Davos . Non-Europeans were admitted to the European figure skating championships until 1948 . Scott was the first, only, and a year later, when she defended her title in Prague , the last non-European to become European Champion. In both years Scott was also world champion ; In 1947 in Stockholm before Daphne Walker and Gretchen Merrill and in 1948 in Davos before Eva Pawlik and Jiřina Nekolová . She also won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in St. Moritz in 1948 , with the highest number of points in both the compulsory and the freestyle. It was the first gold medal in figure skating for Canada and the only one so far for the women.

When Scott was both European and World Champion in 1947, the residents of Ottawa gave her a car; however, she had to return the gift under pressure from Avery Brundage , otherwise she would have lost her amateur status. After the Olympic Games the following year, she got the car after all. Canada's Prime Minister Mackenzie King praised Scott's success as a factor in helping Canadians survive the post-war era. Her face graced the cover of Time Magazine and in her honor the Reliable Toy Company produced a doll based on her. Renowned photographer Yousuf Karsh made famous pictures of Scott in 1946.

After the Olympics , Scott switched from amateurs to professionals and performed extremely successfully in ice revues for five years, replacing Sonja Henie as the top star. Her contract stipulated that part of her income should go to disabled children. In 1955 Scott resigned, married the American publicist and businessman Tom King and settled in Chicago , where she dedicated herself to breeding horses , became one of the best equestrians in the USA and worked as a figure skating trainer . She appeared in TV commercials, wrote two books, ran a beauty salon for some time, and was the director of a summer theater. She stayed in figure skating as a judge and returned often to Canada for charity events and honors.

Scott carried the Olympic torch during the torch relay prior to the 1988 Calgary Olympics and carried the Olympic flag at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics opening ceremony .

Results

Competition / year	1941	1942	1944	1945	1946	1947	1948
Olympic games							1.
World championships						1.	1.
European championships						1.	1.
Canadian Championships	2.	2.	1.	1.	1.		1.

Web links

Commons : Barbara Ann Scott  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Barbara Ann Scott in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Barbara Ann Scott ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia .
  • Barbara Ann Scott Profile ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved July 28, 2019, from Maclean's Magazine, January 12, 1998
• Barbara Ann Scott in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Barbara Ann Scott, Canada's Sweetheart, dead at 84 , obituary by Neil Stevens, Toronto Star , October 1, 2012
• Celebrating Women's Achievements: Barbara Ann Scott at Library and Archives Canada (English, with references)
• Olympic gold medalist Barbara Ann Scott has died on ctvnews.ca September 30, 2012
• Scott at Historica Canada, minutes, only archive version available on Vimeo , short film 60 sec. (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Barbara Ann Scott, only Canadian to win women's Olympic figure skating gold medal, dead at age 84 ( Memento from April 6, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )