Kenneth Shelley
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Kenneth Shelley is an American
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 figure skater who competed in both singles and pairs. As a single skater, he won the 1972 United States Figure Skating Championships
United States Figure Skating Championships
The United States Figure Skating Championships is figure skating competition held annually to crown the national champions of the United States. The competition is sanctioned by U.S. Figure Skating. In the U.S. skating community, the event is often referred to informally as "Nationals".Skaters...

 and placed 4th at the 1972 Winter Olympics
1972 Winter Olympics
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. His highest placement at the World Figure Skating Championships
World Figure Skating Championships
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 was a single skater was 7th, in 1972. As a pair skater, he competed with JoJo Starbuck
JoJo Starbuck
JoJo Starbuck is an American figure skater. With partner Kenneth Shelley, she is a three-time United States pair skating champion and two-time Olympian ....

, with whom he is a three-time National Champion. Starbuck and Shelley competed in two Olympic Games, placing 13th in 1968 and 4th in 1972, and won two bronze medals at the World Figure Skating Championships
World Figure Skating Championships
The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion...

. When they made the 1968 Olympic team, they were the youngest athletes the United States had ever sent to the Olympics.

Shelley was from Downey, California
Downey, California
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. He was first paired with Starbuck for a show in 1959, when they were very small children. They started training seriously with coach John Nicks
John Nicks
John Allen Wisden Nicks is a British figure skating coach and former pair skater. His pairs partner was his sister Jennifer Nicks, and together they were the 1953 World Champions...

 at the Arctic Blades FSC in 1961. In their first year of senior competitions, when they were both 16 years old, they qualified to compete at the 1968 Winter Olympics
1968 Winter Olympics
The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1968 in Grenoble, France and opened on 6 February. Thirty-seven countries participated...

. Both Starbuck and Shelley attended Downey High School, where they performed off-ice lifts with the cheerleading squad and Long Beach State College.

In the summer of 1969, Shelley had a serious off-ice accident, crashing through a glass patio door at a party. He had surgery to repair two severed tendons and spent 5 weeks in a cast.

After retiring from competitive skating, Starbuck and Shelley skated in the Ice Capades
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 and competed professionally. Shelley was inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1994.

Mens singles

Event 1970 1971 1972
Winter Olympics
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4th
World Championships
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8th 8th 7th
North American Championships
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3rd
U.S. Championships
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The United States Figure Skating Championships is figure skating competition held annually to crown the national champions of the United States. The competition is sanctioned by U.S. Figure Skating. In the U.S. skating community, the event is often referred to informally as "Nationals".Skaters...

3rd 2nd 1st

Pairs

(with JoJo Starbuck
JoJo Starbuck
JoJo Starbuck is an American figure skater. With partner Kenneth Shelley, she is a three-time United States pair skating champion and two-time Olympian ....

)
Event 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972
Winter Olympic Games
Winter Olympic Games
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13th 4th
World Championships
World Figure Skating Championships
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11th 6th 5th 3rd 3rd
North American Championships
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The North American Figure Skating Championships were a former elite figure skating competition for skaters from the United States and Canada. It was a biennial competition held between 1923 and 1971, with locations alternating between the two countries.Although the event was classified as an...

 
2nd 1st
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