{"id":4917,"date":"2018-02-15T20:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T20:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sportshistorytoday.com\/?p=4917"},"modified":"2019-07-11T17:39:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T17:39:10","slug":"sonja-henie-wins-3rd-consecutive-gold-medal-february-15-1936","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sportshistorytoday.com\/sonja-henie-wins-3rd-consecutive-gold-medal-february-15-1936\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonja Henie Wins 3rd Consecutive Gold Medal &#8211; February 15, 1936"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Profile on the Great Sonja Henie (NOR) - 1994 Lillehammer, Figure Skating\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1pdl39K30yM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sonja Henie won the gold medal in Women&#8217;s Figure Skating on February 15, 1936, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. She is the only woman to ever win three consecutive Olympic skating titles. <\/p>\n<p>At the age of 11 she represented Norway at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France. That year she came in last among a field of eight.<\/p>\n<p>Henie won her first of 10 consecutive World Championships in 1927 and the following hear she won her first Olympic gold medal in St. Moritz, Switzerland. She won again at Lake Placid, New York in 1932.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Skating in Berlin, ahead of the 1936 Winter Olympics, Sonja was told that Hitler and his entourage had been seated. She skated into the rink at full speed, did her sharp little skid stop in front of the F\u00fchrer, raised her arm and declared, \u201cHeil Hitler.\u201d The crowd went mad. The next day, her compatriots in Scandinavia were distraught, the newspapers asking, \u201cIs Sonja a Nazi?\u201d Her impulsive act was a stain on her white velvet. At the Olympics, a chastened Sonja did not salute, though word that she and her parents had lunched with Hitler at his retreat in the mountains didn\u2019t help matters. According to her brother\u2019s writings, Sonja\u2019s response to the uproar was \u201cI don\u2019t even know what a Nazi is.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2014\/02\/sonja-henie-ice-skating-queen#\">Read more VanityFair.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonja Henie won the gold medal in Women&#8217;s Figure Skating on February 15, 1936 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. She is the only woman to ever won three consecutive Olympic skating titles. <\/p>\n<p>At the age of 11 she represented Norway at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France. She came in last among a field of eight. She won her first of 10 consecutive World Championships in 1927 and the following hear she won her first Olympic gold medal in St. Moritz, Switzerland. She won again at Lake Placid, New York in 1932.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[502],"tags":[734,360,745,495],"class_list":{"0":"post-4917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-olympics-topics","8":"tag-figure-skating","9":"tag-hitler-olympics","10":"tag-sonja-henie","11":"tag-winter-olympics","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportshistorytoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportshistorytoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportshistorytoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportshistorytoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportshistorytoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4917"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportshistorytoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4924,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportshistorytoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions\/4924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportshistorytoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportshistorytoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportshistorytoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportshistorytoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}