Barbara Roles

Olympic medal record
Women's Figure Skating
Bronze	1960 Squaw Valley	Singles

Barbara Ann Roles Williams (born April 6, 1941 in San Mateo, California was an United States figure skater. She won the bronze medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics and retired. She was asked to come out of retirement after the Sabena Flight 548 crashed and killed the entire 1961 US Figure Skating Team. Roles complied and won the gold medal at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in 1962.

She later took up coaching; her pupils have included Lisa-Marie Allen and Nicole Bobek. She is also the mother of U.S. skater Scott Williams.

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