Figure skating Olympian, Sonya Helen Klopfer [Dunfield], wore these ice skates when she performed at the 1952 Oslo Olympic Games. Representing the United States, Klopfer placed fourth. Klopfer and her teammates, Tenley Albright and Virginia Day Baxter, all made a powerful performance the 1952 Oslo Olympic Games. That year–Albright took the silver and Baxter placed fifth.
Sonya went on to coaching fame. Marrying Peter Dunfield, figure skating champion and coach, the Dunfield’s coached in New York and then moved as a coaching team to Sun Valley in the 1970s. Sonya Klopfer Dunfield was inducted to the Sun Valley Winter Sports Hall of Fame in 2019.
Sonya Dunfield Collection, Wood River Museum of History and Culture, 2006.25.02ab
