Tenley Albright – 85
Tenley Albright is an American physician and former figure skater, initially rising to a certain degree of prominence when she won the 1952 Olympic silver medal and when she won the 1956 Olympic gold medal in figure skating later on. Alongside her achievements in figure skating, Albright is also a Harvard Medical School graduate. She wore her first pair of skates when she was six years old and eventually began figure skating lessons when she was eight years old. She was diagnosed with poliomyelitis at the age of 11 and was confined to her hospital bed, unable to walk.
She resumed skating after regaining use of her legs and won the Eastern United States Juvenile Ladies Figure Skating championship only four months later. She won her first national Novice title at the age of 13, followed by the national Junior title the following year and the US women’s championship at the young age of 16. Moreover, at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway, she won a silver medal. In 2015, she was honored by being inducted into the National Women’s Hall of fame.
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