 tenley emma albright (born july 18, 1935, in newton centre, massachusetts) is a former american figure skater and surgeon. she is the 1956 olympic champion, the 1952 olympic silver medalist, the 1953 and 1955 world champion, the 1953 and 1955 north american champion, and the 1952â1956 u.s. national champion. albright is also a graduate of harvard medical school. == figure skating career == at age 11 albright suffered an attack of polio. skating was her therapy to regain muscle strength.life magazine, march 2, 1953 page 78 albright won the silver medal at the 1952 olympics. she won her first world title in 1953, silver in 1954, a second gold medal in 1955, and her fourth medal, silver, in 1956. in 1956, while training for the olympics, albright fell due to a ru
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