Theresa Weld
Theresa Weld | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Other names | Theresa Weld Blanchard | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1893-08-21)August 21, 1893 Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | March 12, 1978(1978-03-12) (aged 84) Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Skating club | SC of Boston | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 1934 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Theresa Weld Blanchard (August 21, 1893 – March 12, 1978) was an American figure skater who competed in the disciplines of single skating and pair skating. Her pair's partner was Nathaniel Niles.[1]
As a singles skater, she won the gold medal at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships six times and competed three times in the Olympics, capturing a bronze medal in 1920.[citation needed] She was the first North American to win a medal at the Olympics.[2] With Niles, she won the national pairs title nine times and also participated in the Olympics three times.
Blanchard was also the long-time volunteer editor of the United States Figure Skating Association's official publication, Skating magazine; first jointly with Niles from the magazine's founding in 1923, and then as sole editor after his death in 1931, until 1963. The magazine was originally published from her home. Her long competitive career gave her many contacts throughout the skating world. She also served as the first chair of the association's Professionals Committee from 1937 to 1947.
Results
Singles career
Event | 1914 | 1918 | 1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | 1926 | 1927 | 1928 |
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Olympic Games | 3rd | 4th | 10th | ||||||||
North American Championships | 1st | 3rd | |||||||||
U.S. Championships | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 3rd |
Pairs career
(with Niles)
Event | 1914 | 1918 | 1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | 1926 | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1932 |
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Olympic Games | 4th | 6th | 9th | |||||||||||
World Championships | 7th | 6th | 8th | |||||||||||
North American Championships | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | ||||||||||
U.S. Championships | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 2nd |
References
Sources
- Wright, Benjamin T. (1996). Skating in America (1921–1996): The 75th Anniversary History of the United States Figure Skating Association. Colorado Springs.
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- 1923: Theresa Weld
- 1925–1927: Beatrix Loughran
- 1929–1935: Constance Wilson-Samuel
- 1937: Maribel Vinson
- 1939–1941: Mary Rose Thacker
- 1945–1947: Barbara Ann Scott
- 1949: Yvonne Sherman
- 1951: Sonya Klopfer
- 1953–1955: Tenley Albright
- 1957–1959: Carol Heiss
- 1961: Laurence Owen
- 1963: Wendy Griner
- 1965: Petra Burka
- 1967: Peggy Fleming
- 1969: Janet Lynn
- 1971: Karen Magnussen