peoplepill id: douglas-ramsay
DR
United States of America
2 views today
2 views this week
Douglas Ramsay
Figure skater

Douglas Ramsay

The basics

Quick Facts

The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Douglas Ramsay (1945 – February 15, 1961) was an American figure skater who competed in men's singles.
Known as "Dick Button Jr.", he early won the reputation of being a particularly charismatic free skater and an audience favorite. After placing 4th at the Junior level at the 1959 United States Figure Skating Championships, in 1960 he narrowly won the Junior title over Bruce Heiss (brother of Carol Heiss) and Frank Carroll with a performance described as "dazzling".
Ramsay was the only skater to perform a triple jump at the 1961 United States Figure Skating Championships, where he finished only fourth due to a poor performance in compulsory figures. However, due to the illness of bronze medalist Tim Brown, he was selected to compete at the 1961 North American Figure Skating Championships and World Figure Skating Championships as the alternate. At the North American Championships in Philadelphia, Ramsay again established himself as "the darling of the audience" and finished fourth in spite of missing a double axel.
Ramsey grew up in Detroit. His grade school, Thomas A. Edison, where he practiced skating on a rink they would flood every winter, renamed the park, that is adjacent to the playground, in his memory.
Ramsay was en route to the World Championships in 1961 when his plane (Sabena Flight 548) crashed near Brussels, Belgium, killing all on board. He was 16 at the time of his death.

Results

Event195919601961
North American Championships4th
U.S. Championships4th J.1st J.4th
  • N. = novice, J. = junior

The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Lists
Douglas Ramsay is in following lists
comments so far.
Comments
From our partners
Sponsored
Douglas Ramsay
arrow-left arrow-right instagram whatsapp myspace quora soundcloud spotify tumblr vk website youtube pandora tunein iheart itunes