 |
World
Women’s Ice-skating Champion for 10 successive years
: from 1927 to 1936. |
|
Olympic
Gold Medal Winner for three consecutive Olympic Games in
Figure Skating Ladies Single Event :
- 1928,
at Garmisch - Partenkircher, Germany
- 1932,
at Lake Placid, New York, US
- 1936,
at Saint Moritz, Switzerland
|
|
The
youngest Olympic Gold Medallist at the age of 15 years and
10 months. (In 1998, 70 years after Sonja won her first Olympic
Japanese figure skater Tara Lapinsky broke this record). |
|
European
Women’s Ice-skating Champion for six successive years
: from 1931 to 1936. |
|
Ranked
eighth in 1924 Olympic Games at the age of 12, the youngest
participant in the event. |
|
First
to combine ballet dance choreography with figure skating.
|
|
First
to wear (designed by her mother) the short skirt and white
skates costume. The dress became popular in the following
decades. |
|
Winner
of a total 18 major championships as a skier. |
|
Winner
of three tennis championships, accomplishing ‘Number
Three’ woman tennis player of Norway in 1936. |
|
Originator
of Ice shows, the Hollywood Ice Revue, from the late 1930s
through mid-1950s. |
|
First
Ice-skater to became a Hollywood actress, starring in 12
films.
|
|
The
Cross of the Knighthood of the First Class of the Order of
St Olav, January 14, 1937. |
|
Recipient
of more than 500 awards, medals and honors. |
|
First
woman skater to be inducted at the Athletics Hall of Fame. |
