Sherwin Badger
Sherwin Badger | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | August 29, 1901|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | April 8, 1972 Sherborn, Massachusetts, U.S. | (aged 70)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Figure skating career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Partner | Beatrix Loughran | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 1932 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Sherwin Campbell Badger (August 29, 1901 – April 8, 1972) was an American figure skater who competed in singles and pairs. He earned the men's titles at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships from 1920 through 1924. He also captured the pairs gold medal with partner Beatrix Loughran three times, and the pair won the silver medal at the 1932 Winter Olympics. Prior to pairing with Loughran, he competed first with Clara Frothingham and later with Edith Rotch.
After his competitive career ended, he was a skating judge and the head of the U.S. Figure Skating Association.
He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on August 29, 1901, and died on April 8, 1972, in Sherborn, Massachusetts. In his private life, Badger was briefly married to Mary Bancroft also from the City of Boston, Massachusetts.
He graduated from Harvard University in 1923.[1]
Results
[edit]Men's singles
[edit]Event | 1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | 1926 | 1927 | 1928 |
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Winter Olympic Games | 11th | ||||||||
North American Championships | 1st | 2nd | |||||||
U.S. Championships | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st |
Pairs
[edit]with Frothingham
Event | 1918 |
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U.S. Championships | 2nd |
with Rotch
Event | 1920 |
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U.S. Championships | 2nd |
with Loughran
Event | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 |
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Winter Olympic Games | 4th | 2nd | |||
World Championships | 5th | 3rd | 3rd | ||
North American Championships | 3rd | ||||
U.S. Championships | 1st | 1st | 1st |
References
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- 1901 births
- 1972 deaths
- American male single skaters
- American male pair skaters
- Figure skaters at the 1928 Winter Olympics
- Figure skaters at the 1932 Winter Olympics
- Figure skating officials
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States in figure skating
- Olympic medalists in figure skating
- World Figure Skating Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 1932 Winter Olympics
- Harvard University alumni
- American figure skating biography stubs