Tenley Albright
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Albright in 1956
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| Full name | Tenley Emma Albright | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |
 United States
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July 18, 1935 Newton Centre, Massachusetts |
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| Residence | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former coach | Maribel Vinson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skating club | Skating Club of Boston | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tenley Emma Albright (born July 18, 1935) is an American former figure skater and surgeon. She is the 1956 Olympic champion, the 1952 Olympic silver medalist, the 1953 and 1955 World Champion, the 1953 and 1955 North American champion, and the 1952–1956 U.S. national champion. Albright is also a graduate of Harvard Medical School. In 2015 she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
At age 11 Albright suffered an attack of polio. Skating was her therapy to regain muscle strength.
Albright won the silver medal at the 1952 Olympics. She won her first World title in 1953, silver in 1954, a second gold medal in 1955, and her fourth medal, silver, in 1956.
In 1956, while training for the Olympics, Albright fell due to a rut in the ice and cut her right ankle joint to the bone with her left skate. The cut was stitched by her father, a surgeon. At the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, she became the first American female skater to win an Olympic gold medal.
Albright retired from competitive skating after 1956 but has maintained a prominent role in the figure skating profession as a member of the Executive Committee of the U.S. Olympic Committee.
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