Maribel Owen
Maribel Yerxa Owen (born April 25, 1940 in Boston , Massachusetts , † February 15, 1961 in Berg-Kampenhout , Belgium ) was an American figure skater who started in pair skating .
Life
Maribel Owen was the first-born daughter of the nine-time US figure skating champion , Maribel Vinson and the Canadian figure skater Guy Owen . Her younger sister Laurence was also a figure skater. Both were trained by their mother.
Owen started ice skating when he was two years and nine months old. At that time the family lived in Berkeley , California . When they later moved back to Boston, Owen formed a pair skating pair with Charles Foster , who would later become president of the U.S. Skating Association. In 1956 they became national junior champions. However, Foster decided to study medicine and so Owen had to look for a new partner. It became Dudley Richards . With him she took part in the 1960 Olympic Games . As in the subsequent World Cup , they finished tenth there. In 1961 they became US champions . In addition to figure skating, Owen studied sociology and anthropology at Boston University .
As reigning US champions, Owen and Richards, as well as their sister Laurence and their mother Maribel, were on board the Sabena flight 548 , which was to take them to the World Cup in Prague. The night flight should stop in Brussels . There, however, the pilot had to abort the landing approach and make another attempt to try another runway. The plane crashed on farmland in Berg-Kampenhout. All 72 passengers, the crew and a farmer on the ground were killed, including the entire 18-man US crew and their 16 relatives. The world championship in Prague was canceled. The remains of the Vinson-Owens were transferred to the United States and buried in the Story Chapel Columbarium of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge , Massachusetts.
In 2011 Owen was inducted into the national Hall of Fame, as was the entire US team that had crashed at the time.
Results
Pair skating
(with Dudley Richards )
| Competition / year | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olympic games | 10. | |||
| World championships | 6th | 10. | ||
| American championships | 3. | 3. | 2. | 1. |
Web links
- Maribel Owen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ US Figure Skating Hall of Fame Members. In: worldskatingmuseum.org. World Figure Skating Museum & Hall of Fame, accessed January 17, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Owen, Maribel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Owen, Maribel Yerxa (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American figure skater |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 25, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 15, 1961 |
| Place of death | Berg-Kampenhout , Belgium |