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Some videos of figure skating I have. Mostly rarer videos.
Ila Ray Hadley & Ray Hadley Jr. -1961 US Nationals Freeskate
This is the Hadley's silver-medal-winning freedance at the 1961 US National figure skating Championships. A month later, the plane carrying the US team to Worlds crashed, killing everyone on board.
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Donna Carrier & Roger Campbell - Freedance 1961 US Nationals
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This was Carrier & Campbell's silver-medal-winning freedance from the 1961 US National figure skating Championships. A month later, the plane carrying the US team to Worlds crashed, killing all aboard.
Diane Sherbloom & Larry Pierce - 1961 US Nationals Freedance
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This is Sherbloom & Pierce's gold-medal-winning freedance at the 1961 US National figure skating Championships. A month later, the plane carrying the US team to Worlds crashed, killing everyone on board.
Maribel Owen & Dudley Richards - Freeskate US Nationals 1961
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This is Maribel Owen and Dudley Richards' gold-medal-winning freeskate from the 1961 US National figure skating championships. A month later, the plane carrying the US team to Worlds crashed, killing everyone on board. Owens, her sister (ladies' champion), and her mother (a coach and former elite figure skater herself) were three of the biggest names who perished.
Laurence Owen - 1961 US National Championships Freeskate
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This is Laurence Owen's gold-medal-winning freeskate from the 1961 US National figure skating championships. A month later, the plane carrying the US team to Worlds crashed, killing everyone on board. She, her sister (a pairs skater), and her mother (a coach and former elite figure skater herself) were three of the biggest names who perished.
Dick Button and Bud Palmer - Post 1961 Nationals
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Dick Button and Bud Palmer at the closing of the 1961 US National Championships, discussing how they went. This is really kind of heartbreaking when you take into account Dick's enthusiasm for the future, and the fact that not even a month later, the entire US Figure Skating World Team was killed when their plane crashed en route to the World Championships.
Bradley Lord - Freeskate 1961 US National Champioships
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This is Bradley Lord's gold-medal-winning freeskate from the 1961 US National figure skating championships. A month later, the plane carrying the US team to Worlds crashed, killing everyone on board.
Stephanie Westerfeld - 1961 Ladies FS
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Stephanie placed 2nd at the 1961 US National Championships in figure skating. A month later, the plane carrying the US team to Worlds crashed, killing everyone on board.
It is chilling to watch the videos from this era knowing what would happen to them.
The women and girl's were very healthy. They need to seriously go back to that!!!! U.S. FEMALE SKATER'S ARE TOO SKINNY AND HAVE NO ENERGY.😢
Huge axel as well as the jump sit spin. To me, this is the classical style of skating where edges are really used and also a lot of speed. Sadly we don't see this now.
Love this gem
so beautiful and tragic
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The hardest jump she completed was a 2loop. There should've been no 5.7 and 5.8 for technical merit. I wonder if there was a stronger technical performance from another skater at this championship.
Lost this day 😪 February 15 1961
Lost this day February 15 1961 😥 😔
Gone this day February 15, 1961 🌹
Feb. 15, 1961, the entire U.S. Figure Skating team crashed outside of Brussels on their way to a World championship.
This film looks like a ghost chilling and sad 😥
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How sad to watch the 1961 team knowing that they would all perish in a couple of weeks. We are so fortunate to have their lovely performances on film!
Laurence was my idol. I was skating at the same time as a teenager. The loss of her and the US skating team had a profound effect on me. She was so full of hope & beauty on the ice. She made all of us work a little harder…
It's definitely haunting watching this program knowing her ultimate fate. Today I also watched Tenley Albright's free skate from 1953. The level of improvement in speed if nothing else is astounding.
only 16!
Such a beautiful time for skating. Wold rather watch this and it's elegance and grace any day than that Russian debacle in this year's 2022 Olympics. So eerie to hear him talk about Prague knowing they would perish on their way. RIP
OMG so sad. She was just 16 when she died in that horrible plane crash. Her whole life ahead of her. That oh golly she said was so teenagerish and cute. The interview at the end was eerie. She talks about the world championships a month away. That's how long she had left to live. Beautiful artistic skater. The extension in her arms and legs were lovely. Now I want to read and see everything about her and that team that perished. Rip.
Donna Lee was a distant cousin. Family folklore was that her parents Eleanor and Floyd sacrificed a lot to pay for her figure skating training. My mother told me that she said to her parents “when I come back from the Olympics, you’ll never have to worry about money again.”I wish I had met her.
Such tragedy 😢💔 loss this day 1961
Such beautiful ice dancer skaters ⛸ gone too soon this day 1961
Sad 😥 loss 1961
Gone too soon 😢💔 this day 1961
Dick Button is one of our greatest champions and such a good commentator. Sad that in a few weeks of this broadcast, the beautiful 1961 skating ⛸ team was gone. RIP : we will not forget you. 🌈 ✨ 🌎 ✌ ☮ 🇺🇸
Beautiful unison - there was so much dignity and style in skating then. Sounds like Dick Button too assisting with commentary. Sad as the team was gone as of 2/15/1961. We will never forget them. RIP ⛸ 🌎 ✌ ☮
Interesting to compare them to the pairs skaters now at the 2022 Winter Olympics! The moves are much more difficult now, they probably thought the moves done now were un achievable then
Wow that was pure and beautiful!
I just happen to google people who were born on the same day i was. And this beautiful woman was one of them
Had that fatal plane crash that kilt the 1961 U.S. National figure skating team not occurred, Laurence Owen likely would've been a four time World champion and likely would have won the gold medal at the 1964 Winter Olympics.
She was a potentially really good skater, but the sentiment of her untimely death makes many people forget that had she lived, she was going to be coming up against the now legendary Sjoukje Dijkstra. The Dutch three time World Champ, who turned pro after enjoying the most convincing win in Olympic history in 1964 was different class at that time. Even allowing for improvement on her performance here at the 1960 US Championships, she was going to have to find a completely different level if she was going to challenge Dijkstra at the '61 worlds. I think its fair to say that level of improvement wouldn't have been manageable in six weeks. Sadly fate denied her the chance to see if she could have closed the gap over the course of 1962-64.
Such an elegant skater. Must have been so hard on surviving family members and friends. RIP.
So elegant and beautiful and such a sad ending. She was amazing. 🙏🏻❤️
Looks like she was left handed from watching her jumps and spins.
Thats so cool I go to Vinson Owen elementary post more of the the Vinson Owen family
WhT a loss
They were beautiful gone this day 😢 💔 60 years ago
60 years ago they were gone 😢 💔
Remember the skaters lost 60 years ago 🙏
60 years ago she was gone remember her 🌹🌺
Loved this routine thank you for posting this
So sad they had something special
They deserved higher
Here at the end of 2020 we still remember❤💕
His skating ✨ is extraordinary / the bilateral movement, choreography and tremendous speed , edge quality and energy he puts into every step and movement still makes him one of the standouts in the sport to this day. Thank you for posting this video.
So sad to lose so many wonderful skaters in that tragedy. The Hadley's were quite simply SUPURB!!
thank u for these wonderful videos. she is so lovely. i love the unique steps u dont see any more today
This was wonderful! I saw moves that I’ve never seen performed before! 💞
Для того времени очень даже хорошо катались, какое место заняли, интересно
He was a marvelous skater along with all the others!