Hamill, Dorothy (1956–)

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Hamill, Dorothy (1956–)

American figure skater. Born Dorothy Stuart Hamill, July 26, 1956, in Chicago, Illinois; m. Dean Paul Martin, Jan 8, 1982 (div.); m. Dr. Kenneth Forsythe, 1987 (sep 1995); children.

Won US National championship (1974, 1975, 1976); won the World championship and an Olympic gold medal at Innsbruck (1976), one of only three American women to win the US National championship, World championship, and Olympic gold medal in the same year; was World Professional Figure Skating champion (1984–87); appeared as a product spokesperson, an Ice Capades headliner; was a tv performer-producer, president of Dorothy Hamill Enterprises, and executive producer of Cinderella … Frozen in Time.

See also autobiography Dorothy Hamill, On and Off the Ice (Knopf, 1983); and Women in World History.

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