Long before there was Nancy and Tonya, Kristi or Katarina or Oksana, there was an elegant girl from Queens who ruled the figure skating world for the better part of a decade. Not that anything came ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Carol Elizabeth Heiss Jenkins (born January 20, 1940 in New York City) is an American figure skater. She is the 1960 Olympic Champion in Ladies Singles, 1956 ...

Carol Heiss Jenkins couldn’t make it to the U.S. women’s national soccer team’s ticker-tape parade in New York on Friday, but the 1960 Olympic figure skating champion sent her regards before the World ...

Friday’s ticker-tape parade in honor of the U.S. women’s national soccer team, which won the World Cup on Sunday, is the first such parade in New York to honor exclusively women since 1960. That’s ...

"I always tell my girls: think like a man, but act and look like a woman." --CAROL HEISS, gold medalist, 1960, now a successful coach The Winter Olympics may be the pastry cart of sport, what cruise ...

It’s easy to forget about Carol Heiss. Her name gets lost between Tenley Albright, who in 1956 became the first U.S. woman to win an Olympic figure-skating title, and Peggy Fleming, who in 1968 became ...

Gold medalists Carol Heiss Jenkins and Hayes Jenkins are prime examples of Northeast Ohio's skating prowess. Hayes, 80, gave up the sport long ago, but Carol, turning 74 on Monday, still coaches it at ...

The memories flood back at random times and stir the ache etched in Carol Heiss’ heart 60 years ago, when a plane crash devastated American figure skating and changed the course of the sport. Heiss ...

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FINDLEY LAKE — For Carol Heiss Jenkins, the only thrill greater than winning an Olympic gold medal in figure skating was marrying gold medalist Hayes Alan Jenkins. Heiss Jenkins, who won the gold ...