Dick Button biography

 Dick Button biography

 Dick Button, byname of Richard Totten Button, (born July 18, 1929, Englewood, New Jersey, U.S.), determine skater who dominated American and worldwide novice competitors within the late Forties and early Fifties till he grew to become knowledgeable in 1952. He was the one man to win high honours within the Olympic, World, European, North American, and U.S. nationwide competitions, and in 1948 he held all these titles concurrently.

At age 16 Button grew to become the youngest holder of the U.S. males’s figure-skating championship, which he gained seven consecutive years (1946–52), tying a file established by Roger Turner (1928–34). In addition, he captured the North American title in 1947, 1948, 1949, and 1951 and the European championship in 1948, the final yr by which American skaters had been permitted to compete. Button gained the world championship 5 consecutive years (1948–52). He additionally gained gold medals on the Olympic Winter Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland (1948), and Oslo, Norway (1952).

Button added new jumps and spins to the figure-skating repertoire. He launched a variation on the camel spin, a flying camel, on the 1947 World Championships in Stockholm, Sweden. He was the primary to finish a double axel, on the 1951 World Championships in Milan, Italy. He added to his standing as a soar king when he grew to become the primary individual to land a triple loop, on the 1952 Olympics.

Button was a scholar at Harvard University throughout a lot of his novice skating profession. In 1952, after he turned skilled, he entered Harvard Law School. He skated professionally with the Ice Capades and Holiday on Ice. He began his personal manufacturing firm in 1959 and produced many sports activities applications for tv. Starting within the early Nineteen Sixties, he grew to become the voice of determine skating within the United States as a commentator for a lot of nationwide and worldwide televised skating occasions.