Theresa Weld Blanchard (August 21, 1893 – March 12, 1978) was an American

figure skater Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, when contested at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic disciplines are me ...

who competed in the disciplines of

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and

pair skating 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 ...

. Her pairs partner was Nathaniel Niles. As a singles skater, she won the gold medal at the

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six times and competed three times in the

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, capturing a bronze medal in 1920. With Niles, she won the national pairs title nine times and also participated in the Olympics three times. Blanchard was also the long-time volunteer editor of the

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's official publication, ''Skating'' magazine; first jointly with Niles from the magazine's founding in 1923, and then as sole editor after his death in 1931, until 1963. The magazine was originally published out of her home. Her long competitive career gave her many contacts throughout the skating world. She also served as the first chair of the association's Professionals Committee from 1937 to 1947.

Results

Singles career

Pairs career

(with Niles)

References

Sources

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Weld, Theresa 1893 births 1978 deaths Sportspeople from Brookline, Massachusetts American female single skaters American female pair skaters Figure skaters at the 1920 Summer Olympics Figure skaters at the 1924 Winter Olympics Figure skaters at the 1928 Winter Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in figure skating Olympic medalists in figure skating Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics 20th-century American women