Laurence Owen
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| Full name | Laurence Rochon Owen | ||||||||||||
| Alternative names | Laurie Owen; The Winchester Pixie | ||||||||||||
| Country represented |
 United States
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| Born |
May 9, 1944 Oakland, California |
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| Died | February 15, 1961 (aged 16) Berg-Kampenhout, Flemish Brabant, Belgium |
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| Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) | ||||||||||||
| Former coach | Maribel Vinson | ||||||||||||
| Skating club | SC of Boston | ||||||||||||
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Laurence Rochon "Laurie" Owen (/lɔːrˈɔːns/; May 9, 1944 – February 15, 1961) was a Hall of Fame American figure skater. She was the 1961 U.S. National Champion and represented the United States at the 1960 Winter Olympics, where she placed 6th. She was the daughter of Maribel Vinson and Guy Owen and the sister of Maribel Owen. Owen died, along with her mother, sister and the entire United States Figure Skating team, in the crash of Sabena Flight 548 en route to the 1961 World Figure Skating Championships.
Owen was born in Oakland, California, and for the first eight years grew up in Berkeley. She was the second child of Guy Owen and Maribel Vinson, both talented figure skaters, and the younger sister of pairs skater Maribel Owen. In 1952, shortly after the death of her husband, Maribel Vinson moved her family back to her girlhood home at 195 High Street in Winchester, Massachusetts, where they lived with Maribel’s mother. Laurence, who at school was known by her full name, attended Winchester Junior High School and then Winchester High School where in addition to maintaining her grueling training schedule she was an honor student, wrote poetry, and participated in several sports.
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