Sonja Henie

Sonja Henie
Henie at the 1936 Olympics
Full name	Sonja Henie
Born	(1912-04-08)8 April 1912 Oslo, Norway
Died	12 October 1969(1969-10-12) (aged 57) on an ambulance plane flying from Paris to Oslo
Height	1.55 m (5 ft 1 in)
Figure skating career
Country	Norway
Skating club	Oslo SK
Retired	1956
Medal record Representing  Norway Ladies' Figure skating Olympic Games 1928 St. Moritz Singles 1932 Lake Placid Singles 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Singles World Championships 1927 Oslo Singles 1928 London Singles 1929 Budapest Singles 1930 New York Singles 1931 Berlin Singles 1932 Montreal Singles 1933 Stockholm Singles 1934 Oslo Singles 1935 Vienna Singles 1936 Paris Singles 1926 Stockholm Singles European Championships 1931 St. Moritz Singles 1932 Paris Singles 1933 London Singles 1934 Prague Singles 1935 St. Moritz Singles 1936 Berlin Singles

Sonja Henie (8 April 1912 – 12 October 1969) was a Norwegian figure skater and film star. She was a three-time Olympic champion (1928, 1932, 1936) in women's singles, a ten-time World champion (1927–1936) and a six-time European champion (1931–1936). Henie won more Olympic and World titles than any other ladies' figure skater. She is one of only two skaters to defend a ladies' singles Olympic title, the other being Katarina Witt, and her six European titles have only been matched by Witt.

At the height of Henie's American acting career, she was one of the highest-paid stars in Hollywood and starred in a series of box-office hits, including Thin Ice (1937), Happy Landing (1938), My Lucky Star (1938), Second Fiddle (1939), and Sun Valley Serenade (1941).^[1]