Peter Kennedy

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Olympic medal record
Figure skating
Silver 1952 Oslo Pairs

Peter Kennedy (born September 4, 1927 in Olympia, WA) was an American figure skater. With his sister, Karol, he won five U.S. Championship titles from 1948-1952. Known as "The Kennedy Kids," they won the World Championship in 1950, and the silver medal in the 1952 Winter Olympics.

[edit] Competitive highlights

(all with Karol)

1946

  • U.S. Championships - 2nd

1947

  • U.S. Championships - 2nd
  • World Championships - 2nd

1948

  • U.S. Championships - 1st
  • Olympics - 6th
  • World Championships - 4th

1949

  • U.S. Championships - 1st
  • World Championships - 2nd

1950

  • U.S. Championships - 1st
  • World Championships - 1st

1951

  • U.S. Championships - 1st
  • World Championships - 2nd

1952

  • U.S. Championships - 1st
  • Olympics - 2nd
  • World Championships - 2nd


World champions in figure skating – Pairs

1908: Anna Hübler & Heinrich Burger | 1909: Phyllis Johnson & James H. Johnson | 1910: Anna Hübler & Heinrich Burger | 1911: Ludowika Jakobsson & Walter Jakobsson | 1912: Phyllis Johnson & James H. Johnson | 1913: Helene Engelmann & Karl Mejstrik | 1914: Ludowika Jakobsson & Walter Jakobsson | 1922: Helene Engelmann & Alfred Berger | 1923: Ludowika Jakobsson & Walter Jakobsson | 1924: Helene Engelmann & Alfred Berger | 1925: Herma Szabo & Ludwig Wrede | 1926: Andrée Brunet & Pierre Brunet | 1927: Herma Szabo & Ludwig Wrede | 1928: Andrée Brunet & Pierre Brunet | 1929: Lilly Scholz & Otto Kaiser | 1930: Andrée Brunet & Pierre Brunet | 1931: Emelie Rotter & Laszlo Szolas | 1932: Andrée Brunet & Pierre Brunet | 1933-1935: Emelie Rotter & Laszlo Szolas | 1936-1939: Maxi Herber & Ernst Baier | 1947-1948: Micheline Lannoy & Pierre Baugniet | 1949: Andrea Kékesy & Ede Király | 1950: Karol E. Kennedy & Peter Kennedy | 1951-1952: Ria Baran & Paul Falk | 1953: Jennifer Nicks & John Nicks | 1954-1955: Frances Dafoe & Norris Bowden | 1956: Elisabeth Schwartz & Kurt Oppelt | 1957-1960: Barbara Wagner & Robert Paul | 1962: Maria Jelinek & Otto Jelinek | 1963-1964: Marika Kilius & Hans-Jürgen Bäumler | 1965-1968: Ludmila Belousova & Oleg Protopopov | 1969-1972: Irina Rodnina & Alexei Ulanov | 1973-1978: Irina Rodnina & Alexander Zaitsev | 1979: Tai Babilonia & Randy Gardner | 1980: Marina Cherkasova & Sergei Shakhrai | 1981: Irina Vorobeva & Igor Lisovski | 1982: Sabine Baeß & Tassilo Thierbach | 1983: Elena Valova & Oleg Vasiliev | 1984: Barbara Underhill & Paul Martini | 1985: Elena Valova & Oleg Vasiliev | 1986-1987: Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov | 1988: Elena Valova & Oleg Vasiliev | 1989-1990: Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov | 1991-1992: Natalia Mishkutenok & Artur Dmitriev | 1993: Isabelle Brasseur & Lloyd Eisler | 1994: Evgenia Shishkova & Vadim Naumov | 1995: Radka Kovaříková & René Novotný | 1996: Marina Eltsova & Andrei Bushkov | 1997: Mandy Wötzel & Ingo Steuer | 1998-1999: Yelena Berezhnaya & Anton Sikharulidze | 2000: Maria Petrova & Alexei Tikhonov | 2001: Jamie Salé & David Pelletier | 2002-2003: Shen Xue & Zhao Hongbo | 2004-2005: Tatiana Totmianina & Maxim Marinin | 2006: Pang Qing & Tong Jian 
North American champions in figure skating – Pairs

1923: Dorothy Jenkins / A.G. McClennan | 1925: Theresa Weld / Nathaniel Niles | 1927: Marion McDougall / Chauncey Bangs | 1929-1933: Constance Wilson-Samuel / Montgomery Wilson | 1935: Maribel Vinson / George Hill | 1937: Veronica Clarke / Ralph McCreath | 1939: Joan Tozzer / Bernard Fox | 1941: Eleanor O'Meara / Ralph McCreath | 1947: Suzanne Morrow / Wallace Distelmeyer | 1949-1951: Karol Kennedy / Peter Kennedy | 1953-1955: Frances Dafoe / Norris Bowden | 1957-1959: Barbara Wagner / Robert Paul | 1961: Maria Jelinek / Otto Jelinek | 1963: Debbi Wilkes / Guy Revell | 1965: Vivan Joseph / Ronald Joseph | 1967-1969: Cynthia Kauffman / Ronald Kauffman | 1971: JoJo Starbuck / Ken Shelley
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