Jean Westwood (figure skater)

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Jean Westwood figure skating
nation United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
birthday
Career
discipline Ice dance
Partner Lawrence Demmy
status resigned
Medal table
World Cup medals 4 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
EM medals 2 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
ISU World figure skating championships
gold Paris 1952 Ice dance
gold Davos 1953 Ice dance
gold Oslo 1954 Ice dance
gold Vienna 1955 Ice dance
ISU European figure skating championships
gold Bolzano 1954 Ice dance
gold Budapest 1955 Ice dance
 

Jean Westwood is a former British figure skater who with Lawrence Demmy in ice dancing started.

Together with him she was British champion from 1952 to 1955, European champion from 1954 to 1955 and world champion from 1952 to 1955 . Westwood and Demmy were both the first world champions as well as the first European champions in ice dancing. With four world championship titles they are only surpassed by Lyudmila Pachomowa and Alexander Gorshkov from the Soviet Union , who achieved a total of six titles.

In 1977 Westwood and Demmy were inducted into the Figure Skating Hall of Fame .

Results

Ice dance

(with Lawrence Demmy )

Competition / year 1952 1953 1954 1955
World championships 1. 1. 1. 1.
European championships 1. 1.
British Championships 1. 1. 1. 1.