Lorraine Hanlon

Lorraine Hanlon
Personal information
Full name	Lorraine Hanlon
Country represented	United States
Coach	Karl Schäfer, Felix Kaspar[1]
Skating club	SC of Boston

Lorraine Hanlon (married name: Comanor, born in 1946) is an American figure skater who competed in ladies singles. She is the 1963 U.S. national champion.

Career

She won the junior title at the 1961 United States Figure Skating Championships. She was invited to participate in an exhibition following that year's World Figure Skating Championships but declined because her school would not allow her to go.^[2] That decision proved fateful, as the flight she would have been on (Sabena Flight 548) crashed near Brussels, Belgium, killing all on board.

Hanlon won the silver medal at the 1962 U.S. Championships and the gold at the 1963 U.S. Championships. However, she retired prior to the 1964 Winter Olympics.

Hanlon was a graduate of the Winsor School in Boston, and was attending the Swiss Alpine College in Switzerland the same year she won her U.S. title. She had previously spent summers training in Europe and spoke fluent French and German.^[3] In the 1963-64 season she returned to Boston and continued to skate while attending Jackson College,^[4] but finished 4th at the U.S. Championships and therefore failed to qualify for the 1964 Winter Olympics.^[5]

After her skating career ended, Hanlon became a physician and later went into medical research.

Results

• J = Junior level

References

• Remembering Flight 548: Twists of fate

External links

• Medical biography

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