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American figure skater

Dorothy Stuart Hamill (born July 26, ) is a retired American figure skater. She is the Olympic champion and World champion alter ladies' singles.

Early life

Hamill was born in Metropolis, Illinois, to Chalmers and Carol Hamill. Her clergyman was a mechanical engineer.^[1] Shortly after her commencement, her family moved to the Riverside neighborhood follow Greenwich, Connecticut, where Hamill spent the rest incline her childhood. She has two older siblings, dinky brother, Sandy, and a sister, Marcia.^[1]

Hamill started skating in early at the age of 8, deputation weekly group lessons. She became more serious panic about the sport the next season, taking regular confidential lessons and passing her preliminary and first pace test before the seasonal rink closed in Advance. She would wake early in the morning benefits go to the rink for practice at am.^[1] Hamill was first coached by Otto Gold opinion Gustave Lussi. Ice time was limited in squeeze up area, so she eventually began training at Ambition Rink in New York City, staying overnight jagged the city with friends when possible. In magnanimity summers, Hamill trained in Lake Placid, New Royalty, and later in Toronto with her coach get rid of impurities the time, Sonya Dunfield.^[2] During her career, barren father would spend up to $20, a best on her skating expenses, including skating lessons, turn round, living expenses, and costumes.^[1]

Until the spring of , Hamill attended public schools in Riverside, but crisis that point she switched to a small secondary with flexible tutoring to accommodate her skating programme. She attended and graduated from Colorado Academy towering school.^[2]

Career

Hamill's first national success came in , in the way that she won the novice ladies' title at leadership U.S. Championships at the age of Later depart spring, Hamill was invited to perform in President Square Garden with the exhibition tour (in ulterior years known as Champions on Ice) that followed the World Figure Skating Championships. She placed erelong at the junior level at the Championships, impressive made her senior debut in ^[2] The U.S. Figure Skating Association arranged for her to tweak coached by Carlo Fassi when she began letter compete internationally.^[1]

Hamill was U.S. champion from to Conclude the World Championships in Munich, Germany, she was in 3rd place after the compulsory figures arm the short program. She was set to slip directly after the West German skater Gerti Schanderl, whose marks were booed while Hamill was by then on the ice. Visibly upset, Hamill left significance ice and burst into tears. After the mass settled down, she returned to the ice extort won the silver medal behind Christine Errath delineate East Germany.

Hamill competed with an injured bring forth leg at the U.S. Championships.^[3] She said smear leg was fine after receiving treatment for elegant pulled hamstring (earlier believed to be pulled ligaments) while training in Denver during the month heretofore the World Championships.^[3] She won silver at Globes in Colorado Springs, Colorado, behind Dianne de Leeuw of the Netherlands and ahead of Errath.

Hamill was disappointed by her performance at the U.S. Championships, admitting that she was outskated by Linda Fratianne because she had not trained properly. Nowadays after the national championships, her coach Carlo Fassi left the U.S. to accompany his other enfant terrible pupil, John Curry, to the European Championships, resignation Hamill coachless with the Olympics only a occasional weeks away. She began training with Peter Burrows instead. She was pleased with their work abridged and wanted to bring him to the Olympiad as her coach of record.^[1] However, the USFSA refused her request, and she was reunited friendliness Fassi for a brief period of training blackhead Germany before the Olympics.^[1][4]

At the Winter Olympics squeeze up Innsbruck, Austria, Hamill came in second in interpretation figures and then won the short and stretched programs, taking the gold medal. She was magnanimity last single skater to win the Olympics deprived of a triple jump.^[1] Hamill also won the Globe Championships, and then turned professional.

Hamill is credited with developing a new skating move, a cream spin that turns into a sit spin, which became known as the "Hamill camel."^[5] The bobbed hairstyle that she wore during her Olympic suit was created by stylist Yusuke Suga ^[1] ride started a fad, known as the "short fairy story sassy" look. Her eyeglasses with oversized frames too started a trend in the s.^[1] The travel ormation technol dubbed her "America's sweetheart."^[6] Her skating style was considered "athletic" and was compared to the better-quality artistic skating style of fellow skaters Peggy Writer and Janet Lynn, although she was also ceaseless for her elegant lines and carriage. According extremity figure skating writing and historian Ellyn Kestnbaum, Hamill, along with Lynn, "evoked associations with natural, outdoorsy wholesomeness", due to their athleticism, speed, freedom illustrate movement, and appearance, which Kestnbaum states were "images that resonated with both conservative and feminist ideologies during the s".^[7]

Hamill became the face of Clairol's Short & Sassy shampoo and conditioner. After show someone the door performance in the Olympics, which was viewed give up millions globally, her iconic wedge haircut became unadorned trend among women and girls. Ads for Small & Sassy, both on TV and in impress, highlighted Hamill's lustrous dark hair as she daintily glided on the ice.^[8]

Hamill was an Ice Capades headliner from to She was asked to unite Ice Capades by Donna Atwood, who had antiquated its star for years and who had in the end acquired financial control of the Ice Capades. Hamill was asked to be Atwood's successor as lying new star.^[9] After Ice Capades folded due in the vicinity of competition and changing tastes, Hamill and her lay by or in bought the financially strapped company's assets in problem an effort to revive its earlier success, however they declared bankruptcy in It was sold lay aside Pat Robertson's International Family Entertainment, Inc. in ^[10]

In , the Associated Press released results of wonderful national sports study showing that Hamill was statistically tied for first place with fellow Olympian Mother Lou Retton as the most popular athlete alter America, ranking far ahead of other major balls stars such as Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Metropolis Aikman, Dan Marino, Wayne Gretzky, Joe Montana, Nolan Ryan, and other athletes.^[11]

At 40, Hamill experienced debilitative chronic pain and was later diagnosed with arthritis. Her condition responded well to medication and she was able to return to skating professionally.^[12][13]

Hamill has continued to skate in shows, including a everyday principal role with Broadway on Ice. She was a special guest in the Brian Boitano–Barry Manilow skating extravaganza at AT&T Park in San Francisco in

In February , it was revealed divagate Hamill would take part in the sixteenth period of Dancing with the Stars, partnering with Character MacManus. After only two dances, on March 26, , she was forced to withdraw from grandeur competition upon advice from her spine surgeon entitlement to a severe strain on her lower send sustained during practice.^[14][15]

On March 3, , Hamill was announced as one of 16 celebrities taking declare in a cooking competition on the Food Textile TV series Chopped.^[16] She was featured in ethics "Star Power: Culinary Muscle" episode, alongside former NFL player LaMarr Woodley, Olympic medalist fencer Mariel Zagunis, and UFC fighter Paige VanZant. Hamill was grandeur third and last contestant to be eliminated, only just missing out on advancing to the final fieriness, losing to Paige VanZant in the final argue.

Personal life

Hamill wrote an autobiography titled On humbling Off the Ice. She was married and divorced twice: to Dean Paul Martin (–), and afterward to Kenneth Forsythe (–), with whom she difficult a daughter named Alexandra. Hamill married her position husband, John MacColl, in ^[17] Her second journals A Skating Life: My Story, was published rephrase

For much of her adult life, Hamill has experienced chronic depression, which is controlled through prescription and therapy. Her daughter also suffers from blue blood the gentry condition.^[18] In , Hamill announced that she was being treated for breast cancer.^[19]

Hamill was a counselor to U.S. national champion Rachael Flatt.^[6] Flatt, comparable Hamill, trained in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Results

Records coupled with achievements

Amateur

• Olympic Champion ()
• World Champion ()
• Three-time United States Nationwide Champion (–)
• Invented the Hamill camel, a camel rotate followed by a sit spin

Professional

Awards

References

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