Virginia Baxter

Virginia Baxter
Full name	Virginia Day Baxter
nation	United States
birthday	December 3, 1932
place of birth	Detroit , Michigan
date of death	December 18, 2014
Career
discipline	Single run
society	Detroit Skating Club
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
World figure skating championships bronze Paris 1952 Ladies

Virginia Day "Ginny" Baxter , married McKendrick and Newman , (born December 3, 1932 in Detroit , Michigan , † December 18, 2014 ) was an American figure skater who started in a single run .

Baxter took third place in the national championships in 1949, 1950 and 1951 and won the bronze medal at the 1952 World Cup in Paris behind the French Jacqueline du Bief and her compatriot Sonya Klopfer . In her other world championships she was seventh in 1949 and 1950 . Her only participation in the Olympic Games , she finished in 1952 in Oslo in fifth place, where she won the freestyle .

After the Olympics, she retired from her amateur career and was part of Ice Capades' 1953 show Land of Lollipops . In 1954 she married Robert McKendrick, with whom she had four sons. After her husband died in 1988, Baxter was married to Blaise Newman from 1991 until his death in 2002. She died a few days after her 82nd birthday in December 2014.

Results

Competition / year	1949	1950	1951	1952
winter Olympics				5.
World championships	7th	7th		3.
American championships	3.	3.	3.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Virginia Newman Obituary , accessed March 1, 2017.

Web links

• Virginia Baxter in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )