Dorothy Hamill

Dorothy Hamill
First Lady Laura Bush and Dorothy Hamill (right), 2007
Full name	Dorothy Stuart Hamill
nation	United States
birthday	July 26, 1956
place of birth	Chicago, Illinois
size	160 cm
Weight	55 kg
Career
society	SC of New York
Trainer	Carlo Fassi
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 2 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold Innsbruck 1976 Ladies  World figure skating championships silver Munich 1974 Ladies silver Colorado Springs 1975 Ladies gold Gothenburg 1976 Ladies

Dorothy Stuart Hamill (born July 26, 1956 in Chicago , Illinois ) is a former American figure skater who started in a single run . She is the Olympic champion of 1976 and the world champion of 1976 .

youth

Dorothy Hamill is the youngest of Carol and Chalmers Hamill's three children. She grew up in Greenwich , Connecticut . She started figure skating at the age of eight and took training lessons a year later. Since the conditions for training in her area were not good all year round, she began to train at the Sky Rink in New York City and in the summer in Lake Placid , later in Toronto with Sonya Klopfer . Carlo Fassi was her coach during her competitive career .

Athletic career

Their first world championship played Hamill in 1972 and finished seventh. In 1973 she was runner-up at the national championships behind Janet Lynn . At the World Cup that year , she just missed a medal in fourth. In 1974 Hamill became US champion for the first time and won her first world championship medal at the world championships in Munich . She was runner-up behind Christine Errath from the GDR. Before the freestyle she had left the ice in tears because the audience booed mercilessly. She hadn't noticed that the audience was booing, not because of her, but because of Gerti Schanderl's bad rating . Dorothy Hamill was informed of the situation and, although she was considered nervous, then ran the best freestyle on the field and thus secured the silver medal. A year later Hamill defended her title at the national championships and repeated her result from the last world championship. In Colorado Springs she clearly had to bow to Dianne de Leeuw , who was born and raised in the USA but started for the Netherlands, but defeated Errath. The 1976 Olympic year was to be Hamill's big year. First she won the national championship for the third time in a row, then she became Olympic champion in Innsbruck and finally world champion in Gothenburg . She didn't actually go to the Olympic Games as the favorite, but won with a unanimous judge's verdict, not least because Errath and de Leeuw made mistakes. She was the last Olympic champion in figure skating without a triple jump. Hamill later reported that a competitor and her trainer tried to run her over in the Olympic village. Carlo Fassi saw the car and prevented it. Hamill never said who they were. After her Olympic victory, Hamill became very popular in the USA, her hairstyle became a trend and in 1977 a doll was made after her. One pirouette was named "Hamill Camel" after it.

Ice revue career

In 1976 she ended her amateur career and switched to professionals. She was the driving force behind the ice revue Ice Capades from 1977 to 1984. Hamill wrote two autobiographies entitled "On and Off the Ice" and "A Skating Life: My Story". She was married from 1982 to 1984 to Dean Paul Martin , the son of Dean Martin , and from 1987 to 1995 to Kenneth Forsythe, with whom she has the daughter Alexandra. In 1991 Hamill was inducted into the Figure Skating Hall of Fame of Figure Skating.

Private life

On January 4, 2008, she announced that she had been receiving treatment for breast cancer . She recommended that people follow a plant-based diet to reduce the risk of these diseases. In February 2010, she announced that she had remarried.

Results

Competition / year	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976
winter Olympics						1.
World championships		7th	4th	2.	2.	1.
American championships	5.	4th	2.	1.	1.	1.

Works

• Dorothy Hamill, Elva Clairmont: Dorothy Hamill - On and Off the Ice . Alfred A. Knopf , New York 1983, ISBN 0-394-85610-4 .
• Dorothy Hamill, Deborah Amelon: A Skating Life . Hyperion Books , New York 2007, ISBN 978-1-4013-0328-0 .

Web links

• Dorothy Hamill in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Dorothy Hamill in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.accesshollywood.com/was-dorothy-hamill-almost-attacked-at-the-1976-olympics_article_29315
2. ↑ http://www.hairfinder.com/hairquestions/wedge.htm
3. ↑ http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20169565,00.html
4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2011 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.