Monty Hoyt was an American

United States

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 figure skater. He was the 1962 U.S. national champion

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...

, the 1961 Junior national champion, and the 1959 Novice national champion. He represented the United States at the 1964 Winter Olympics

United States at the 1964 Winter Olympics

The United States competed at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.- Medalists :- Alpine skiing:MenMen's slalomWomen- Biathlon:Men1Two minutes added per miss.- Bobsleigh:- Cross-country skiing:Men...

, where he placed 10th.

After winning the U.S. junior title in 1961, Hoyt had tickets to be on Sabena Flight 548

Sabena Flight 548

Sabena Flight 548, registration OO-SJB, was a Boeing 707 aircraft that crashed en route to Brussels, Belgium, from New York City on February 15, 1961, killing the entire United States Figure Skating team on its way to the 1961 World Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia.The flight, which...

 to attend 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...

. He cancelled at the last moment, and so was not on the flight when the plane crashed, killing everyone aboard.

Hoyt graduated from the University of Denver

University of Denver

The University of Denver is currently ranked 82nd among all public and private "National Universities" by U.S. News & World Report in the 2012 rankings....

 and was a Marshall scholar at Oxford

Oxford

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. Later in life, Hoyt was a member of the Presidential Commission on Olympic Sports. He died of melanoma

Melanoma

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 at age 53.

Competitive highlights

Event	1959	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964
Winter Olympics Winter Olympic Games The Winter Olympic Games is a sporting event, which occurs every four years. The first celebration of the Winter Olympics was held in Chamonix, France, in 1924. The original sports were alpine and cross-country skiing, figure skating, ice hockey, Nordic combined, ski jumping and speed skating...						10th
World 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...				6th	11th	11th
U.S. 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...	1st N.	5th J.	1st J.	1st	3rd	3rd

• N = Novice level; J = Junior level