Ice skater Cecilia Colledge, 87
Posted: Sunday, April 20th, 2008 7:53 pmWorld champion skater who was an advocate of the dance aspect of the sport and epitomised the spirit of sportsmanship
The ice skating champion Cecilia Colledge might never have set foot on an ice rink had she not attended the 1928 World Championships at the Ice Club in London as a spectator. The seven-year-old was captivated watching the vivacious jumps and spins of the Norwegian skater Sonja Henie — who won the second of her ten world titles on that occasion — and told her mother: “I should like to skate like her.” Colledge was crowned world champion just nine years later.
She went on to become one of the innovators in the sport of figure skating. She was the first woman to execute a double jump (the salchow), at the 1936 European championships in Berlin, and is one of only four Britons to have won the women’s world championship. …
Cecilia Colledge, ice skating champion, was born on November 28, 1920. She died on April 12, 2008, aged 87 … Read full obituary
