Uploaded February 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Scott Ethan Allen was an American skating phenom who found himself on Olympic and World podiums in his early teens. WIth the entire US team having perished so tragically in the Brussels air disaster of 1961, the weight of responsibility fell firmly on the shoulders of the US Junior skaters to rebuild the American skating legacy. While many see Peggy Fleming's Olympic success in 1968 as the rebirth of American skating, it was actually Scott Allen who won the US's first Olympic medal after the disaster and he did so at the age of 14 in 1964 in Innsbruck.
A year later he won the silver medal at the worlds behind Alain Calmat of France. Finally here is his complete performance (the US broadcast only showed the last minute) where having just turned 16, he skated brilliantly with such verve and freshness to win what would be his only world medal. He missed out on the bronze in Geneva, 1968 to Patrick Pera despite having more cumulative points and the same number ordinals....need to look into that one!
Anyway enjoy this fantastic performance from one of my favourite mens skaters from the 1960's!
Scott Ethan Allen was an American skating phenom who found himself on Olympic and World podiums in his early teens. WIth the entire US team having perished so tragically in the Brussels air disaster of 1961, the weight of responsibility fell firmly on the shoulders of the US Junior skaters to rebuild the American skating legacy. While many see Peggy Fleming's Olympic success in 1968 as the rebirth of American skating, it was actually Scott Allen who won the US's first Olympic medal after the disaster and he did so at the age of 14 in 1964 in Innsbruck.
A year later he won the silver medal at the worlds behind Alain Calmat of France. Finally here is his complete performance (the US broadcast only showed the last minute) where having just turned 16, he skated brilliantly with such verve and freshness to win what would be his only world medal. He missed out on the bronze in Geneva, 1968 to Patrick Pera despite having more cumulative points and the same number ordinals....need to look into that one!
Anyway enjoy this fantastic performance from one of my favourite mens skaters from the 1960's!
