Skating championships
NZPA-Reuter; Helsinki Two Americans who overcame childhood disabilities to become world champion skaters will defend their titles at the World Figure Skating championships at Helsinki. Scott Hamilton, who spent almost a third of his life in hospitals because of an illness which stopped his growth at the
age of three, will be going for a third successive men’s title when the week-long championships open with the compulsory figures today. Later Elaine Zayak, who is missing two toes after a lawnmower accident when she was eight, will begin her bid to add a second world crown to the one she took last year in Copenhagen.
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Press, 7 March 1983, Page 22
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