Dr tenley albright biography

American figure skater

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.^[2]

Figure skating career

Albright was born in Newton, Massachusetts.^[3] Her father was a surgeon who wanted his daughter to be active in sports.

Carol heiss biography

Each winter, he would flood an area behind his house to create a skating rink for Albright and her friends. She was able to cut figure eights into the ice by the time she was nine years old.^{[citation needed]} In 1947, she contracted a mild case of polio; as figure skating historian James R.

Hines put it, "Skating provided much needed physical therapy". Her illness left h