Ronald Robertson

Ronald Robertson
Full name	Ronald Frederick Robertson
nation	United States
birthday	September 25, 1937
place of birth	Brackenridge, Pennsylvania
date of death	February 4, 2000
Place of death	Fountain Valley, California
Career
discipline	Single run
Trainer	Gustave Lussi
End of career	1956
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 2 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 Men's  World figure skating championships silver Vienna 1955 Men's silver Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1956 Men's

Ronald Frederick "Ronnie" Robertson (born September 25, 1937 in Brackenridge , Pennsylvania , † February 4, 2000 in Fountain Valley , California ) was an American figure skater who started in a single run .

In 1955 and 1956 he was runner-up behind his fellow countryman Hayes Alan Jenkins . He also landed behind Jenkins at the 1956 Olympic Games and won the silver medal. At the 1955 World Cup, he was the first figure skater to show a triple salchow . After a scandal at the US championships in 1956, he quit competitive sports and signed a two-year contract at the Ice Capades figure skating show, which brought him a hundred thousand dollars.

In the 1950s, he had a relationship with Tab Hunter who also helped him fund his amateur career . Robertson was not infrequently featured on television, for example on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1957.

Results

Competition / year	1953	1954	1955	1956
winter Olympics				2.
World championships	4th	5.	2.	2.
American championships	2.	3.		2.

Web links

• Ronald Robertson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rainbow Ice - Tab Hunter , accessed July 10, 2018