Sherwin Badger

Sherwin Badger
Full name	Sherwin Campbell Badger
nation	United States
birthday	August 29, 1901
place of birth	Boston, Massachusetts
date of death	April 8, 1972
Place of death	Sherborn, Massachusetts
Career
discipline	Single run, pair run
Partner	Beatrix Loughran
society	New York SC
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 2 ×
winter Olympics silver Lake Placid 1932 Couples  World figure skating championships bronze New York City 1930 Couples bronze Montréal 1932 Couples

Sherwin Campbell Badger (born August 29, 1901 in Boston , Massachusetts , † April 8, 1972 in Sherborn , Massachusetts) was an American figure skater who started in single and pair skating .

Badger was American figure skating champion from 1920 to 1924 , four times ahead of his Boston competitor Nathaniel Niles . As an individual runner, however, he never took part in world championships . His only major international appearance was his participation in the 1928 Olympic Games in St. Moritz . There he placed eleventh, one place behind the best American Roger Turner .

In pair skating, Badger won the US championship title from 1930 to 1932 on the side of Beatrix Loughran . With her he played three world championships . In 1928 they were fifth and in 1930 and 1932 they won the bronze medal. They also took part in two Olympic Games . In 1928 in St. Moritz they placed fourth and in 1932 in their native Lake Placid they won silver behind the French Andrée and Pierre Brunet .

During his active athletic career, Badger studied at Harvard and graduated from university in 1923. That year he began his professional career in business with the United Fruit Company, and in 1925 he became an editor for the Wall Street Journal and Barrons. He joined the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company in 1940 and stayed there, later as Vice President and Director, until his retirement in 1972. Badger was also president of the national figure skating federation in the 1930s.

Results

Single run

Competition / year	1920	1921	1922	1923	1924	1925	1926	1927	1928
winter Olympics									11.
American championships	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.

Pair skating

(with Beatrix Loughran )

Competition / year	1928	1929	1930	1931	1932
winter Olympics	4th				2.
World championships	5.		3.		3.
American championships			1.	1.	1.

(with Clara Frothingham Badger was runner-up in 1918 and runner-up with Edith Rotch at the national championships in 1920)

Web link

• Sherwin Badger in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )