Eugene Turner

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For the American jurist and legislator, see Eugene S. Turner.
Eugene Turner
BornNovember 26, 1920 Los Angeles, California
DiedJanuary 14, 2010(2010-01-14) (aged 89) Yountville,(Napa) California
Figure skating career
CountryUnited States
Skating clubLos Angeles FSC
Medal record
Representing United States
Men's Figure skating
North American Championships
Silver medal – second place 1941 Philadelphia Men's singles
Pairs' Figure skating
North American Championships
Silver medal – second place 1941 Philadelphia Pairs

Eugene Turner (November 26, 1920 – January 14, 2010)

ice dancing. He also coached professionally for 60 years, skated in films and authored skating works. He was born and raised in Los Angeles
, California where he graduated from John Marshall High School, and spent most of his life and career in Northern California.

Skating career

Turner won the men's singles title at the 1940 and 1941

United States Figure Skating Championships. Also in 1941, he became the first skater to medal in three disciplines at one U.S. Championship, adding the pairs title with Donna Atwood and the silver medal in ice dancing with Elizabeth Kennedy
. Self-taught with the Los Angeles Figure Skating Club, he was the first skater from west of the Mississippi River to win a U.S. senior title.

Turner did not appear in the Winter Olympics or World Championships which were subject to worldwide cancellation from 1940 to 1946 due to

P-47 Thunderbolt from bases in France for over 60 missions against German forces. After the war, he became a coach and skated professionally.[2]

Turner partnered with

skating double for Cary Grant in The Bishop's Wife in 1948, and for Patric Knowles in the Abbott & Costello comedy, Hit the Ice
in 1943.

As a coach, he taught or set programs for Allen Schramm, Dudley Richards, Karol Kennedy, Peter Kennedy, Catherine Machado, Richard Dwyer, Tim Brown, Andree Anderson , Lorin O'Neil Caccamise, and Tenley Albright.[1][2] He authored one book, "The Skaters," and Skating magazine carried his columns in the 1980s.[2][3]

Eugene Turner was inducted into the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1983 and the Professional Skaters Association Coaches Hall of Fame in 2012.[4]

Results

(men's singles)

Event 1939 1940 1941
North American Championships 2nd
U.S. Championships
 3rd 1st 1st

(pairs with Donna Atwood)

Event 1941
North American Championships 2nd
U.S. Championships
 1st

(ice dance with Elizabeth Kennedy)

Event 1941
U.S. Championships
 2nd

References

  1. ^ a b "U.S. Hall of Fame Member Eugene Turner Passes Away", U.S. Figure Skating (website)[1]
  2. ^ a b c "History of the Los Angeles Figure Skating Club" Archived 2009-01-05 at the Wayback Machine, by Virginia Vale, club newsletter, 1982 (from LAFSC website)
  3. ISBN 0-8195-6642-X [2]
  4. ^ Hall of Fame inductees Archived September 5, 2007, at the Wayback Machine

External links

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