Kenneth Ormsby is a former

Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...

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 ...

. Competing with

Paulette Doan Paulette Doan (married name: Ormsby) is a Canadian former ice dancer. She competed with Kenneth Ormsby. Together, they were the 1963 and 1964 Canadian champions and in those years won bronze and silver medals (respectively) at the World Figure ...

, he was the 1963 and 1964 Canadian champion and in those years won bronze and silver medals (respectively) at the

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. Ormsby was from

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and trained there during his competitive career. He was also studying for a degree in accounting. After the 1964 season, Doan and Ormsby turned professional and toured with

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. They announced their engagement the day they joined the show. As of 2010, Kenneth Ormsby is on the coaching staff at the Scarboro Figure Skating Club in

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Results

(with

) * Doan and Ormsby competed in both the junior and senior events at the 1961 Canadian Championships."The Canadians", ''Skating'' magazine, April 1961

References

Canadian male ice dancers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Figure skaters from Toronto World Figure Skating Championships medalists 20th-century Canadian people {{canada-figure-skating-bio-stub