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Aileen Shaw at 19 practicing in Melbourne, 1963. Courtesy Beryl Black Archive. Also published in the Canberra Times, 15 August 1963.


CAREER SUMMARY

Birth
May 21st 1945
Melbourne Australia

ISA Nationals
1958–61, 1963 (5)

Olympics
1960 Figure Skating

Contested Richmond Trophy, Britain
Coach of Sally Paton

BORN May 21st 1945 in Melbourne, Shaw lived in the inner city at Burnley near Richmond. Coached by Nancy Burley, she was the youngest Victorian ever to win the bronze medal for figure skating at the age of 7 in 1953. Then, in 1956, at the age of 11, she was the youngest skater ever to compete in the senior titles.

At 13 in 1958, she won her first ice skating championship at Melbourne Glaciarium, before joining Bill Cherrell two years later to represent Australia at the Squaw Valley Olympics. Shaw was five-times Ladies National champion representing Victoria between 1958–61 and 1963, and Australian Ladies Singles representative at the 1960 Olympics. She placed 25th, the youngest Australian Winter Olympian, male or female, at the age of 14 until skier Britteny Cox in 2010.

In 1962, she finished 17th overall in the Richmond Trophy, at Richmond Ice Rink, Twickenham, Surrey. Although she toured England and Europe to gain competitive experience and top class coaching for the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Games, the Australian Olympic Federation decided not to send skaters.

Shaw turned professional and coached skaters such as Sally Patton.

01. Historical Notes

02. Citation Details

Ross Carpenter, 'Shaw, Aileen (1945 - )', Legends of Australian Ice, Melbourne, Australia, http://icelegendsaustralia.com/legends-2/bio-shaw.html, accessed online .

03. Select Bibliography

04. Citations
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Bronze medallist at 7

St Moritz Ice Palais, Melbourne, May 1953. The Argus, May 26h 1953, p 4.

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State junior champion at 11

With parents. Victorian Ladies' Figure Skating Championships, Melbourne Glaciarium, 1956. The Argis Aug 2nd 1956.

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Australian champion

Richmand Trophy international figure and free skating competition for ladies at Richmond ice rink, Richmond, Surrey. The premier international ice skating event in Britain that season. The Canberra Times, 14 Nov 1962, p 42.

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Winter Olympic competitor

1960 Winter Olympic Team, Squaw Valley, California, USA.

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With Olympic teammate, Mary Wilson

On left in San Francisco USA, en route to the Winter Olympic Games at Squaw Valley, USA, February 8th 1960. UPI Telephoto.