Tenley Albright

Tenley Albright
Full name	Tenley Emma Albright
nation	United States
birthday	July 18, 1935
place of birth	Newton Center, Massachusetts
Career
discipline	Single run
society	Skating Club of Boston
Trainer	Willie Frick
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 2 × 2 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver Oslo 1952 Ladies gold Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 Ladies  World figure skating championships gold Davos 1953 Ladies silver Oslo 1954 Ladies gold Vienna 1955 Ladies silver Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1956 Ladies

Tenley Emma Albright (born July 18, 1935 in Newton Center , Massachusetts ) is a former American figure skater who started in a single run . She is the Olympic champion of 1956 and the world champion of 1953 and 1955 .

Albright was American figure skating champion from 1952 to 1956 . She took part in world championships from 1951 to 1956 . In 1954 and 1956 she was vice world champion behind Gundi Busch and Carol Heiss respectively . In 1953 in Davos and 1955 in Vienna she became world champion. She was the first American female figure skating world champion.

At her first Olympic Games in Oslo in 1952 , Albright won the silver medal behind the British Jeannette Altwegg . Four years later she hit her compatriot and competitor Carol Heiss in Cortina d'Ampezzo - despite a cut on her leg she had suffered in training - and became an Olympic champion . It was the first time that an American woman became an Olympic champion in figure skating.

After her Olympic victory in 1956, she resigned from active sport and did not switch to professional sports like many other figure skaters. Instead, she studied at Harvard Medical School , which she successfully completed in 1961. During her career she had studied at Radcliffe College from 1953 . Then she worked as a surgeon. Her interest in medicine was aroused at an early age, as she suffered from poliomyelitis as a child . Albright's husband is former Ritz-Carlton hotel owner Gerald Blakely .

Results

Competition / year	1951	1952	1953	1954	1955	1956
winter Olympics		2.				1.
World championships	6th	Z	1.	2.	1.	2.
American championships	2.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.

• Z = withdrawn

Web links

• Tenley Albright in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )