Sonja Henie set the standard by which women's figure skaters are judged to this day. The Norwegian skater dominated the sport in the 1930s. She won gold medals in the women's singles event in St.

Narrated by Cliff Robertson The daughter of a fur wholesaler, Sonja Henie received her first pair of ice skates when she was six. Eight years later, she was the Norwegian Skating Champion. At 15, she ...

"Oh yes, six years back, when I was still an amateur, I knew all the Harvard boys," said Sonja Henie, after she had flashed into her dressing room at the Garden, and flashed out again in four minutes, ...

When dimpled Skating Star Sonja Henie, 48, got married for the third time in 1956, she made it clear that some changes would have to be made in her new husband’s life. Norwegian Shipowner Niels Onstad ...

World capital of the sport of figure skating is London, which has six indoor rinks to New York’s two, and an amazing number of high-grade figure skaters. The women’s figure skating championship of the ...

during the Pair Skating Free Skating at Gangneung Ice Arena on February 15, 2018 in Gangneung, South Korea. Richard Heathcote When Aljona Savchenko won her first gold medal at her fifth Olympics with ...