Azerbaijani figure skater Nargiz Suleymanova has demonstrated her talents at the Sonja Henie Trophy, an international figure ...
I want to go home." The diminutive Sonje Henie crinkled up her blue eyes in mock exasperation while she sat in her crowded dressing room last night and told modestly of her skating career.
Many a nine-year-old girl nowadays wants to skate like Sonja Henie. One was Dorothy Goos, daughter of a Bronx electrician. When she was nine, she was taken to see Sonja Henie in the motion picture ...
The Lake Placid rink is also where figure skater Sonja Henie won her gold medal in 1932, while in 1980 speed skater Eric Heiden won five gold medals on the speed skating oval outside ...
Sherwin Badger captures his fifth straight and final men’s title. 1928 — Sonja Henie, 15, becomes the youngest Olympic figure skating champion. She easily beats Fritzi Burger of Austria and ...
Who, then, can say what the proper retirement age is? Sonja Henie stopped doing her most beautiful and most difficult figures by the age of thirty and became a producer. Joe Louis at thirty-five ...
1936 — Figure skater Sonja Henie wins her 10th straight world championship. 1959 — Lee Petty, driving an Oldsmobile, wins the first Daytona 500. 1969 — Barbara Jo Rubin becomes the first ...
At 14 years, nine months and 12 days, Lipinski is 32 days younger than Sonja Henie when the Norwegian won the first of her 10 world titles in 1927. Michelle Kwan, the defending champion ...