Sonja Henie in WatchMojo.com’s Women with Mojo Series

Sonja hangy born april eighth nineteen
twelve in oslo norway she was a figure
skater and actress she started skating
at the age of six and it was her father
William Henny who was a one-time world
cycle champion and a prosperous fur
trader why are the best experts in the
world to teach her daughter had escaped
she won an unprecedented a world figure
skating championship and her first was
at the age of 15 she dominated amateur
women’s figure skating for ten years and
she took the gold in the nineteen
twenty-eight 1932 and 1936 winter
olympics she won six consecutive
european championships and she was the
first to adopt the short skirt costume
and to use choreography in her routine
in 1936 she turned pro in the united
states and started acting until nineteen
fifty with her last film hello London
she was at that time one of the
wealthiest women in the world she was
diagnosed with Luke
mid 60 and died in nineteen sixty-nine
on a flight from Paris to Oslo
considered by most as the greatest
figure skater in history shares one more
Olympic medals and world titles than any
other woman in figure skating