Karol Estelle Kennedy Kucher (February 14, 1932 in

Shelton, Washington Shelton is a city in, and the county seat of, Mason County, Washington, United States. Shelton is the westernmost city on Puget Sound. The population was 10,371 at the 2020 census. Shelton has a council–manager form of government and was the ...

– June 25, 2004 in

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) was an American

pair skater 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 her brother, Peter, she won five U.S. Championship titles from 1948 to 1952. Known as "The Kennedy Kids," they won the

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in 1950, and the silver medal in the

1952 Winter Olympics The 1952 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VI Olympic Winter Games ( no, De 6. olympiske vinterleker; nn, Dei 6. olympiske vinterleikane) and commonly known as Oslo 1952, was a winter multi-sport event held from 14 to 25 February 19 ...

Competitive highlights

(all with Peter)

References

''Note: Peter Kennedy has also been credited as Michael Kennedy''
GoldenSkate: North American Figure Skating Championships: List of Champions

Obituary from the USFSA
1932 births 2004 deaths American female pair skaters Figure skaters at the 1948 Winter Olympics Figure skaters at the 1952 Winter Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the United States in figure skating Olympic medalists in figure skating World Figure Skating Championships medalists Medalists at the 1952 Winter Olympics People from Shelton, Washington 20th-century American women 20th-century American people 21st-century American women {{US-figure-skating-bio-stub