Norris Bowden
Norris Bowden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | (1926-08-13)August 13, 1926 Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | April 9, 1991(1991-04-09) (aged 64) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 1956 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Robert Norris Bowden (August 13, 1926 – April 9, 1991) was a Canadian figure skater.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Bowden won championships in every division of Canadian figure skating. He was national men's champion as a junior and senior (1947), national pairs (junior and senior), dance (1952), waltz, and 10-step champion with Frances Dafoe, and national fours champion.
Bowden and Dafoe captured four Canadian titles (1952, 1953, 1954, 1955) and two world championships (1954, 1955). They won the silver medal at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, where Bowden was Canada's flag bearer in the opening ceremonies. Norris and his partner were the first pair skaters to do the twist lift, throw jump, ‘leap of faith’ and overhead lasso. It was because of these two that some of the rules in pairs skating were changed.[1]
Outside skating, Bowden graduated with an MBA and worked in the life insurance industry. He was founding president of the Centennial Nursery School for Retarded Children (now the Centennial Infant and Child Centre) in Toronto.
He has been inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame (1955), the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame (1958), and the Skate Canada Hall of Fame (1993).
Results
men's singles
Event | 1943 | 1944 | 1946 | 1947 |
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Canadian Championships | 2nd J. | 2nd J. | 2nd | 1st |
- J. = Junior level
(pairs with Frances Dafoe)
Event | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 |
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Winter Olympic Games | 5th | 2nd | ||||
World Championships | 4th | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 2nd | |
North American Championships | 1st | 1st | ||||
Canadian Championships | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st |
(ice dance with Frances Dafoe)
Event | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 |
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Canadian Championships | 3rd | 3rd | 1st |
References
- ^ "Where are they now: Dafoe and Bowden". TSN. Retrieved 2010-05-22.
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