Wallace William "Wally" Diestelmeyer (July 14, 1926 – December 23, 1999) was a Canadian figure skater. He competed in pair skating with Suzanne Morrow. The couple won the bronze medal 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 skati ...

. 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

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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 Suzanne Morrow with

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with Floraine Ducharme Ice dance with Suzanne Morrow

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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