Last British woman to win an individual ice-skating gold medal at the Winter Olympics Jeannette Altwegg, who has died aged 90, was the last British woman to win an Olympic individual ice-skating gold medal - at the 1952 Winter Games in Oslo. Her rare and celebrated triumph, at the age of 21, would normally have led to a lucrative professional career - or at least another couple of tilts at the Olympics as an amateur. But in fact Altwegg opted shortly afterwards to leave skating altogether, takin...
Last British woman to win an individual ice-skating gold medal at the Winter Olympics Jeannette Altwegg, who has died aged 90, was the last British woman to win an Olympic individual ice-skating gold medal - at the 1952 Winter Games in Oslo. Her rare and celebrated triumph, at the age of 21, would normally have led to a lucrative professional career - or at least another couple of tilts at the Olympics as an amateur. But in fact Altwegg opted shortly afterwards to leave skating altogether, takin...
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