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Tenley Albright

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Tenley Emma Albright, M.D. (born July 18, 1935) - at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, became the first American lady to win a figure skating Olympic gold medal. Enrolled in Harvard Medical School later that year and went on to become a surgeon.

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IOC Athlete Biography (http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/heroes/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=71583)
Academy of Achievement interview (http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/alb0int-1) - June 21, 1991
Newsweek article about Albright's experience with polio (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7587852/site/newsweek/)

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