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Barbara Ann Scott (born May 9, 1928 in Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada) is a world and Olympic champion
figure skater.

Scott began skating at a very young age and was
only eleven years old when she won her first
Canadian national junior title. Two years later,
in 1942, the thirteen-year-old became the first
female to ever land a double lutz in competition. 

From 1945 to 1948, she won the North-American
Figure Skating championships. In 1947 she became
the first North American to win the European and
World Figure Skating Championships, making her a
Canadian national heroine. Subsequent to her
victory, her hometown of Ottawa gave her a new
convertible automobile but she had to turn down
the gift in order to retain her amateur status so
as to be able to compete in the 1948 Winter
Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland. In the Winter
Games she became the first Canadian to win the
figure skating gold medal.


She was awarded the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada's
top athlete of the year in 1945, 1947 and 1948.
She was inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of
Fame in 1948, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in
1955, and the Canadian Figure Skating Hall of Fame
in 1991.

Scott turned professional, skating with the
Hollywood Ice Revue in Chicago, Illinois where she
met publicist Tom King whom she married in 1955.

She was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in
1991 and in 1998 was named to Canada's Walk of
Fame.

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