Dorothy Hamill biography
Dorothy Hamill, in full Dorothy Stuart Hamill, (born July 26, 1956, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), American determine skater who received the gold medal for ladies’s determine skating within the 1976 Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck, Austria.
Hamill first skated at age eight on a yard pond. By 14 she was being privately tutored in order that she might skate as much as seven hours per day. In the Nineteen Seventies she lived and skilled in Denver, Colorado, below the supervision of legendary skating coach Carlo Fassi. This intense coaching paid off; Hamill was a three-time U.S. nationwide champion (1974–76) and the 1976 world champion. She was the final feminine skater to win an Olympic gold medal (1976) with no triple jumps.
In addition to her swish skating, Hamill is thought for her haircut, which was broadly imitated, and for a skating spin. A number of years earlier than the Olympics, she had her hair reduce right into a wedge type that saved her hair quick and out of her eyes. Hamill invented the Hamill camel, a camel spin that's adopted by a sit spin.
Hamill turned skilled in 1977 and started skating with the Ice Capades, which she later owned and managed (1993–95). She appeared in quite a few tv specials and in addition carried out with different skating firms. From 1983 to 1987 she received the World Professional Championships. Hamill cowrote Dorothy Hamill on and off the Ice (1983; with Elva Clairmont) and A Skating Life (2007; with Deborah Amelon).
