Carol Hot

Carol Hot
Carol Heiss and Edson Stroll in the film Snow White and the Three Stooges
Full name	Carol Elizabeth Heiss Jenkins
nation	United States
birthday	January 20, 1940
place of birth	New York City
Career
society	Skating Club of New York
Trainer	Pierre Brunet
status	resigned
End of career	1960
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 5 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 Ladies gold Squaw Valley 1960 Ladies  World figure skating championships silver Vienna 1955 Ladies gold Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1956 Ladies gold Colorado Springs 1957 Ladies gold Paris 1958 Ladies gold Colorado Springs 1959 Ladies gold Vancouver 1960 Ladies

Carol Elizabeth Heiss , married. Jenkins (born January 20, 1940 in New York City ) is a former American figure skater who started in a single run . She is the Olympic champion from 1960 and the world champion from 1956 to 1960 .

Carol Heiss grew up in Queens , New York City, and began figure skating there at the age of six. Her trainer was the French pair skating Olympic champion of 1928 and 1932 , Pierre Brunet . In 1951, at the age of eleven, she was national champion in the novices, 1952 in the juniors and from 1953 to 1956 she was runner-up in the seniors behind Tenley Albright .

In 1953 Heiss played her first world championship at the age of 13 and was promptly fourth. In her second world championship she was runner- up in 1955 , but well behind Tenley Albright. Heiss also won the silver medal behind her compatriot at her first Olympic Games in 1956 in Cortina d'Ampezzo . But already at the subsequent World Championship in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , Heiss was able to beat them extremely tightly and won her first of five consecutive World Championship titles. You should never lose a competition again. During this time she finished her studies at New York University . Heiss actually wanted to end her amateur career after her first Olympic Games and appear in ice shows, but her mother Marie Heiss was very ill and asked her daughter to remain an amateur and win an Olympic gold medal for her before she died of cancer in October 1956 . Heiss continued and dominated the women's figure skating competition between 1957 and 1960 like no figure skater after Sonja Henie had done up to that time. She won all national championships , all world championships with unanimous judges and the 1960 Olympic Games in Squaw Valley with unanimous judges. At the Olympic Games, she also took the Olympic oath at the opening ceremony.

With five world championship titles, Heiss, together with Herma Szabó and her compatriot Michelle Kwan, is the second most successful individual runner at world championships after Sonja Henie.

Heiss was known as a very athletic figure skater. In 1953 she was the first woman to stand a double axel . Another trademark of her were series of simple axel jumps, which she jumped alternately clockwise and counter-clockwise. Heiss usually jumps clockwise, but turns counterclockwise, which is unusual since most figure skaters make both jumps and turns in the same direction, mostly counterclockwise.

Carol Heiss' younger siblings, Nancy and Bruce were also figure skaters. Nancy's best result was sixth place at the 1958 World Cup .

After ending her amateur career in 1960, Heiss played the lead role in the comedy Snow White and the Three Stooges . From part of her fee she paid her siblings' tuition fees. After that film, Fox offered her another role for which she should have learned to dance and sing, but she declined and returned to her family in Ohio . Heiss married the figure skater Hayes Alan Jenkins in 1961 , who was Olympic champion in 1956 and world champion from 1953 to 1956. She has three children with him. She could still be seen in a few ice shows until 1962, before she finally gave up that and devoted herself to raising her children. After a long break, Heiss appeared as a figure skating coach in the Akron area of ​​her home town in the early 1980s . She quickly became a successful trainer and moved to Lakewood to work on the Winterhurst Ice Rink. Among her students were Timothy Goebel , Tonia Kwiatkowski and Miki Andō .

Results

Competition / year	1953	1954	1955	1956	1957	1958	1959	1960
winter Olympics				2.				1.
World championships	4th		2.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.
American championships	2.	2.	2.	2.	1.	1.	1.	1.

Web links

Commons : Carol Heiss  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Carol Heiss in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Article about Heiss
• Photo of the Heiss Jenkins couple, 2008