Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Quadruple gold medal winner Lidia Skoblikova (C) of Russia beams as "fans" inspect medals hanging about her neck here 2/2. At right is gold medal winner Francois Bonlieu of France, who won men's giant slalom, and at left, the Netherlands' Sjoukje Dykstra, gold medal winner of the ladies' figure skating event. Mrs. Skoblikova, 24, the only Winter Olympian to ever win four medals in a single year, received her medals for winning the 500-, 1,000-, 1,500-, and 3,000-meter skating events at the 9th Winter Olympics.
Quadruple gold medal winner Lidia Skoblikova (C) of Russia beams as "fans" inspect medals hanging about her neck here 2/2. At right is gold medal winner Francois Bonlieu of France, who won men's giant slalom, and at left, the Netherlands' Sjoukje Dykstra, gold medal winner of the ladies' figure skating event. Mrs. Skoblikova, 24, the only Winter Olympian to ever win four medals in a single year, received her medals for winning the 500-, 1,000-, 1,500-, and 3,000-meter skating events at the 9th Winter Olympics.
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Quadruple gold medal winner Lidia Skoblikova (C) of Russia beams as "fans" inspect medals hanging about her neck here 2/2. At right is gold medal winner Francois Bonlieu of France, who won men's giant slalom, and at left, the Netherlands' Sjoukje Dykstra, gold medal winner of the ladies' figure skating event. Mrs. Skoblikova, 24, the only Winter Olympian to ever win four medals in a single year, received her medals for winning the 500-, 1,000-, 1,500-, and 3,000-meter skating events at the 9th Winter Olympics.

United Press International · [ca. February 1964]

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