Lawrence Demmy

Lawrence Demmy
nation	United Kingdom
birthday	1930 or 1931
date of death	December 9, 2016
Career
discipline	Ice dance
Partner	Jean Westwood
Medal table
World Cup medals 4 × 0 × 0 × EM medals 2 × 0 × 0 ×
World figure skating championships gold Paris 1952 Ice dance gold Davos 1953 Ice dance gold Oslo 1954 Ice dance gold Vienna 1955 Ice dance  European figure skating championships gold Bolzano 1954 Ice dance gold Budapest 1955 Ice dance

Lawrence Demmy (* 1930 or 1931 ; † December 9, 2016 ) was a British figure skater who started with Jean Westwood in ice dancing .

Together with her he was British champion from 1952 to 1955, European champion from 1954 to 1955 and world champion from 1952 to 1955 . Demmy and Westwood 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 Demmy and Westwood were inducted into the Figure Skating Hall of Fame . Demmy died on December 9, 2016 at the age of 85.

Results

Ice dance

(with Jean Westwood )

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Death of Lawrence Demmy. International Skating Union , December 14, 2016, accessed March 17, 2017 .