Wallace William "Wally" Diestelmeyer (July 14, 1926 – December 23, 1999) was a Canadian

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 ...

. He competed in

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 ...

with

Suzanne Morrow Suzanne Morrow Francis or Dr. Suzanne Morrow Francis (December 14, 1930 – June 11, 2006) was a Canadian figure skater and a Veterinarian. She competed in Ladies' Singles in the 1948 and 1952 Winter Olympics. Between 1947 and 1948, Francis compe ...

. The couple won the

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at the

1948 Winter Olympics The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games (german: V. Olympische Winterspiele; french: Ves Jeux olympiques d'hiver; it, V Giochi olimpici invernali; rm, V Gieus olimpics d'enviern) and commonly known as St. Moritz ...

and the

1948 World Figure Skating Championships The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion. The 1948 competitions for men, ladies, and pair skatin ...

. They are credited as being the first pair to perform the death spiral one-handed, with the man holding the woman in position with one hand, at the 1948 Olympic Games. After retiring from

competition Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero-sum game). Competition can arise between entities such as organisms, indivi ...

s Distelmeyer worked as a skating

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. In 1992 he was inducted into the

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, together with Morrow.

Results

Men's singles Pairs with

with

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with Floraine Ducharme Ice dance with

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1926 births 1999 deaths Canadian male single skaters Canadian male pair skaters Canadian people of German descent Figure skaters at the 1948 Winter Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Canada Olympic figure skaters of Canada Sportspeople from Kitchener, Ontario Skating people from Ontario Olympic medalists in figure skating World Figure Skating Championships medalists Medalists at the 1948 Winter Olympics Canadian figure skating coaches 20th-century Canadian people {{Canada-figure-skating-bio-stub