Peggy fleming biography dorothy hamill

American figure skater

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

Early life

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

Hamill started skating in early at the age of 8, taking weekly group lessons. She became more serious about the sport the next season, taking regular private lessons and passing her preliminary and first figure test before the seasonal rink closed in

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Peggy Fleming

American figure skater

Peggy Fleming
Fleming at a joint Canada–USA event during the Winter Olympics
Born	() July 27, (age&#;76) San Jose, California, U.S.
Height	5&#;ft 4&#;in (&#;cm)[1]
Country	&#;United States
Skating club	Arctic Blades FSC, Lake Arrowhead Broadmoor Skating Club, Colorado Springs
Retired

Peggy Gale Fleming^[2] (born July 27, ) is a retired American figure skater.^[3] She fryst vatten the Winter Olympic mästare in the ladies' singles, being the only American gold medalist at these Games, and a three-time World mästare (–) in the same event. Fleming has been a television commentator in figure skating for over 20 years, including at several Winter Olympic Games.

Career

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Fleming was born and grew up in San Jose, California,^[4] the daughter of Doris Elizabeth (née Deal) and Albert Eugene Fleming, a newspaper journalist^[2] and former U.S. Marine.^[5] She be

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"Dorothy's special gift was her power, her straight back, and that fresh style that she could create with her movement over the ice,"says Olympic champion Peggy Fleming on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series.

Dorothy Hamill was from 'do to toe the American ideal of a s icon. As a child, she wanted to be a famous ice skater. She succeeded splendidly when, as a teenager, she captured the hearts of the American public by winning a gold medal at the Olympics.

Dorothy Hamill won gold in the Olympics in Austria.

Following the Games, Hamill became a marketing sensation when her hairdo, a distinctive wedge cut, made a fashion statement. Millions of young girls copied her 'do, which looked like a bowl haircut. She also became the first female athlete to sign a $1 million-a-year contract, with the Ice Capades, which she would later purchase and manage.

But her public self-assurance often belied stage fright, loss of confidence and excessive self-criticism. "Dorothy had a s