Karen Simensen

Karen Simensen
nation	Norway
birthday	August 26, 1907
place of birth	Oslo
date of death	July 13, 1996
Place of death	Oslo
Career
discipline	Single run
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
World figure skating championships bronze Oslo 1927 Ladies

Karen Simensen , married. Klæboe (born August 26, 1907 in Oslo ; † July 13, 1996 there ) was a Norwegian figure skater who started in a single run .

She won the bronze medal at the 1927 World Cup in Oslo, behind her compatriot Sonja Henie and the Austrian Herma Szabó and just ahead of Ellen Brockhöft . Three of the five judges came from Norway and it was this majority that brought her bronze. It was her only appearance at world championships . Her only appearance at the Olympic Games was in St. Moritz in 1928 , where she was sixteenth and third-best Norwegian after Sonja Henie and Edel Randem .

She later coached the Oslo Skøiteklub for several decades. She was also the first female chairman of the figure skating committee of the Norwegian Skating Association from 1950 to 1957.

Results

Competition / year	1927	1928
Olympic games		16.
World championships	3.

Web links

• Karen Simensen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )