Suzanne Morrow

Suzanne Morrow
Suzanne Morrow 1947
nation	Canada
birthday	December 14, 1930
place of birth	Toronto ,  Canada
date of death	June 11, 2006
Career
discipline	Single run, pair run
Partner	Wallace Diestelmeyer
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze St. Moritz 1948 Couples  World figure skating championships bronze Davos 1948 Couples

Suzanne "Suzi" Morrow , married. Francis (born December 14, 1930 in Toronto , † June 11, 2006 ) was a Canadian figure skater who started in single skating and pair skating .

Career

Morrow celebrated her greatest successes in pair skating with Wallace Diestelmeyer . The Canadian champions of 1947 and 1948 won bronze medals at both the Winter Olympics in St. Moritz and the World Figure Skating Championships in Davos in 1948 . The couple was the first to show the death spiral with just one hand in the form known today.

In the individual run, Morrow was Canadian champion from 1949 to 1951. In the period from 1948 to 1953, with the exception of 1949, she took part in all world championships , but remained without a podium. From 1950 to 1952 , she finished fourth three times in a row and thus narrowly missed a medal. Morrow played two Olympic Games in a single run. In 1948 in St. Moritz she took 14th place and in 1952 in Oslo she was sixth.

After Morrow retired from competitions, she served as a judge for over 50 years. At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary , she was the first woman ever to take the Olympic oath for the judges.

Morrow graduated with a degree in veterinary medicine in 1952 and worked as a veterinarian until she retired in 1995. During this time, she also served as a judge for dog shows at the Canadian Kennel Club .

Results

Single run

Competition / year	1947	1948	1949	1950	1951	1952	1953
winter Olympics		14th				6th
World championships		13.		4th	4th	4th	5.
Canadian Championships	3.		1.	1.	1.

Pair skating

(with Wallace Diestelmeyer )

Competition / year	1947	1948
winter Olympics		3.
World championships		3.
Canadian Championships	1.	1.

Web links

• Suzanne Morrow in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Skate Canada saddened by the loss of Suzanne Francis. Archived from the original on March 10, 2007 ; accessed on November 23, 2015 .