Harold Hartshorne (September 8, 1891 – February 15, 1961) was an American

ice dancer Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. Ac ...

. With partner

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, he was the 1937-1938 U.S. Champion and 1943 bronze medalist. With partner

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, he was the 1939-1941 U.S. Champion and 1942 silver medalist. With partner Kathe Mehl, he is the 1944 U.S. silver medalist. After his competitive career ended, Hartshorne became a skating judge. He was en route to the

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with colleagues and athletes, when his plane (

Sabena Flight 548 Sabena Flight 548 was a Boeing 707-329 flight operated by Sabena that crashed en route from New York City to Brussels, Belgium, on February 15, 1961. The flight, which had originated at Idlewild International Airport, crashed on approach to Bru ...

) crashed near

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, killing all on board. His wife, Louisa, was also killed in the crash. He was one of the founders of the Skating Club of New York. At the time of his death, in 1961, he was the president of the Skating Club of New York and the U.S. Figure Skating dance committee chairman. He attended

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. The Hartshorne Estate at 80 Oakes Road,

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is on the list of Monmouth County Historic Sites. In 1981, twenty years after his death, Hartshorne was inducted into the

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Results

Ice Dance

(with Prantell) (with MacDonald) (with Mehl)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hartshorne, Harold 1891 births 1961 deaths American male ice dancers Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery People from Little Silver, New Jersey Princeton University alumni Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Belgium Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1961