Carol Heiss
Carol Heiss was born in Queens, New York, United States on January 20th, 1940 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 84, Carol Heiss biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Carol Elizabeth Heiss Jenkins (born January 20, 1940) is an American former figure skater and actress.
Competing in ladies' singles, she became the 1960 Olympic champion, the 1956 Olympic silver medalist, and a five-time World champion (1956–1960).
Personal life
Carol Heiss was born on January 20, 1940, in New York City, and grew up in Ozone Park, Queens. Her younger sister and brother, Nancy Heiss and Bruce Heiss, were also elite figure skating competitors. During the 1950s, the three skating Heiss siblings were featured in publications such as Life magazine.
During her run of world titles, Heiss attended New York University, graduating after the 1960 Winter Olympics. In 1961, she married American figure skater Hayes Alan Jenkins, who had won the 1956 Olympic gold medal. They have three children together.
Career
Heiss began skating in New York as a six-year-old. Pierre Brunet had coached her. She first rose to national prominence in 1951, when she captured the U.S. novice women's championship at age 11. In 1952, she captured the junior ladies' championship in the United States and then advanced to the senior level in 1953. She came in second second place at the national championships from 1953 to 1956. At the 1954 U.S. Championships, she competed with a slashed Achilles' tendon.
In Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Heiss was selected in the United States team to the 1956 Winter Olympics. She received the silver medal, while Albright captured the gold. Heiss achieved the title in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany, beating Albright for the first time in five straight world championships.
Heiss was preparing to turn professional and skate in ice shows after the 1956 Winter Olympics. Marie Heiss, the mother of her child, was seriously ill with cancer at the time, and she begged Carol to win a gold medal for her in October 1956. Heiss dominated women's figure skating like no other since Sonja Henie. She was the World and United States champion every year, and Heiss captured the gold medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California, being ranked first by all nine judges. She appeared in the Olympic Oath as the representative of the host country in the 1960 games. Heiss became the first woman to win five consecutive World Championships since winning the 1960 World Championships held after the Olympics. She then retired from competitive skating.
Heiss was the first female skater to land a double Axel jump in 1953. One of her trademarks was a series of alternating clockwise and counterclockwise single Axels. She usually turned clockwise and spins counterclockwise, but skaters are much more likely to do both clockwise and spins counterclockwise; in the latter case, counterclockwise).
Heiss was inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame and the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame.
In the 1961 film Snow White and the Three Stooges, Heiss played the female lead. She began coaching several skaters in Lakewood, Ohio, in the late 1970s. Timothy Goebel, Tonia Kwiatkowski, and Miki Ando are among her former students.