Barbara Ann Scott
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| Gold | 1948 St. Moritz | Singles | |
Barbara Ann Scott (born May 9, 1928 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a world and Olympic champion figure skater.
Scott began skating at a very young age and was only eleven years old when she won her first Canadian national junior title. Two years later, in 1942, the thirteen-year-old became the first female to ever land a double lutz in competition.
From 1945 to 1948, she won the North American Figure Skating Championships. In 1947 she became the first North American to win the European and World Figure Skating Championships, making her a Canadian national heroine. Subsequent to her victory, her hometown of Ottawa gave her a new convertible automobile but she had to turn down the gift in order to retain her amateur status so as to be able to compete in the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland. In the Winter Games she became the first Canadian to win the figure skating gold medal.
She was awarded the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada's top athlete of the year in 1945, 1947 and 1948. She was inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 1948, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1955, and the Canadian Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1991.
Scott turned professional, skating with the Hollywood Ice Revue in Chicago where she met publicist Tom King whom she married in 1955.
She was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1991 and in 1998 was named to Canada's Walk of Fame.
[edit] Competitive highlights
| Event/Season | 1941 | 1942 | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 | 1947 | 1948 |
| Canadian Championships | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | - | 1st |
| North American Championships | - | - | - | 1st | - | 1st | - |
| European Championships | - | - | - | - | - | 1st | 1st |
| World Championships | - | - | - | - | - | 1st | 1st |
| Winter Olympics | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1st |
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1908: Madge Syers-Cave | 1920: Magda Julin | 1924: Herma Szabo | 1928: Sonja Henie | 1932: Sonja Henie | 1936: Sonja Henie | 1948: Barbara Ann Scott | 1952: Jeannette Altwegg | 1956: Tenley Albright | 1960: Carol Heiss | 1964: Sjoukje Dijkstra | 1968: Peggy Fleming | 1972: Beatrix Schuba | 1976: Dorothy Hamill | 1980: Anett Pötzsch | 1984: Katarina Witt | 1988: Katarina Witt | 1992: Kristi Yamaguchi | 1994: Oksana Baiul | 1998: Tara Lipinski | 2002: Sarah Hughes | 2006: Shizuka Arakawa |
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1930: Fritzi Burger | 1931-1936: Sonja Henie | 1937-1939: Cecilia Colledge | 1947-1948: Barbara Ann Scott | 1949: Eva Pawlik | 1950: Ája Vrzáňová | 1951: Jeannette Altwegg | 1952: Jeannette Altwegg | 1953: Valda Osborn | 1954: Gundi Busch | 1955: Hanna Eigel | 1956: Ingrid Wendl | 1957: Hanna Eigel | 1958: Ingrid Wendl | 1959: Hanna Walter | 1960-1964: Sjoukje Dijkstra | 1965-1966: Regine Heitzer | 1967: Gabriele Seyfert | 1968: Hana Mašková | 1969-1970: Gabriele Seyfert | 1971-1972: Beatrix Schuba | 1973-1975: Christine Errath | 1976: Dianne de Leeuw | 1977-1980: Anett Pötzsch | 1981: Denise Biellmann | 1982: Claudia Kristofics-Binder | 1983-1988: Katarina Witt | 1989: Claudia Leistner | 1990: Evelyn Großmann | 1991-1995: Surya Bonaly | 1996-1997: Irina Slutskaya | 1998-1999: Maria Butyrskaya | 2000-2001: Irina Slutskaya | 2002: Maria Butyrskaya | 2003: Irina Slutskaya | 2004: Julia Sebestyen | 2005-2006: Irina Slutskaya |
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| NAME | Scott, Barbara Ann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Scott, Barbara |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Canadian figure skater |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
| PLACE OF DEATH | |
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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 |
| Preceded by Theo Dubois |
Lou Marsh Trophy winner 1945 |
Succeeded by Joe Krol |
| Preceded by Joe Krol |
Lou Marsh Trophy winner 1947, 1948 |
Succeeded by Cliff Lumsden |
