Janet Jean Gerhauser Carpenter (born August 9, 1932 in
Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American former
pair skater
Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a ...
who competed with
John Nightingale, twice winning the silver medal at the
United States Figure Skating Championships
The U.S. Figure Skating Championships is a figure skating competition held annually to crown the national champions of the United States. The competition is sanctioned by U.S. Figure Skating. In the U.S. skating community, the event is often ...
and taking part in the
1952 Winter Olympic Games.
She also competed in fours with Nightingale,
Marilyn Thomsen, and
Marlyn Thomsen and won the 1949
North American title. After her competitive career ended, she was a judge and a coach. She was inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2008.
Results
Pairs
(with Nightingale)
Fours
(with Nightingale, Thomsen, and Thomsen)
References
External links
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1932 births
Living people
American female pair skaters
Figure skaters at the 1952 Winter Olympics
Olympic figure skaters for the United States
21st-century American women
20th-century American women
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