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Carol Heiss
Carol Heiss Jenkins (born January 20 1940) was a World and Olympic figure skating Champion.
In 1956, at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany, Carol Heiss won the first of her five consecutive World Figure Skating Championships. That year she also earned a Silver Medal at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy where her US teammate Tenley Albright took the Gold.
At the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California, Heiss captured the Gold Medal.
Following her retirement from figure skating in 1960, Heiss played the female lead in the 1961 film Snow White and the Three Stooges .
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