Ronald Ludington

Olympic medal record
Figure skating
Competitor for United States
Bronze	1960 Squaw Valley	Pairs

Ronald Ludington

Personal information
Country represented	United States
Born	September 4, 1934 (1934-09-04) Boston, Massachusetts
Former partner	Nancy Ludington
Skating club	Commonwealth Figure Skating Club
Retired	1960
Medal record Competitor for United States Pairs' Figure skating Olympic Games Bronze 1960 Squaw Valley Pairs World Championships Bronze 1959 Colorado Springs Pairs North American Championships Bronze 1957 Rochester Pairs

Ronald Ludington (born September 4, 1934) is an American figure skater and coach. He was born in Boston.

Biography

With his then-wife, Nancy Rouillard Ludington, he won the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in pair skating four times, between 1957 and 1960, after having been the junior national champions in 1956. They won bronze medals at the 1959 World Figure Skating Championships and 1960 Winter Olympics. Ludington also won the 1958 U.S. junior (silver) dance championship, partnered with Judy Ann Lamar.

Following his competitive career, Ludington took up coaching. His first pupils included Patricia and Robert Dineen, who were killed along with the rest of the U.S. team in the crash of Sabena Flight 548 on their way to the 1961 World Championships. Ludington was not on the plane because neither he nor the Dineens had the money to fund his travel expenses; it was the only World Championships between 1957 and the end of the century which he did not attend as either a competitor or a coach.

Ludington's best-known pupils include U.S. pair champions, Melissa Militano and Johny Johns, and Kitty and Peter Carruthers, the silver medalists in pair skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics. He was also the coach of ice dancers Carol Fox and Richard Dalley at those Olympic Games. Ludington also coached Stacey Smith and John Summers, three-time national champion ice dancers, and US national pair silver medalists, Gale and Joel Fuhrman, and Lee Ann Miller and Billy Fauver, and US pair bronze medalists, Cozette Cady and Jack Courtney.

After his divorce from Nancy Rouillard, Ludington was married to Mary Batdorf, who is now better known as Mary Scotvold. They both taught skating at the Skating Club of Wilmington, in Wilmington, Delaware, and had a son, Michael. They were divorced in the mid-1970s. He is now married to Karen Ludington, another skating coach. Their current students include Melissa Bulanhagui.

Ludington is director of the Skating Science Development Center the University of Delaware Figure Skating Club. He was named to the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1999 and the Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame in 2000.

Results

Pairs

(with Nancy Ludington)

Event	1957	1958	1959	1960
Winter Olympic Games				3rd
World Championships	4th	5th	3rd	6th
North American Championships	3rd
U.S. Championships	1st	1st	1st	1st

Ice Dance

(with Lamar)

Event	1958
U.S. Championships	1st J.

References

• Bob Duffy, "Twists of fate", The Boston Globe, Dec 31, 2000
• Hall of fame announcement
• Scott Hamilton, Landing It. ISBN 1-57566-466-6.