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Robert Arnold Uppgren | ||||||||||||||
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Country represented | United States | |||||||||||||
Born | December 14, 1923 | |||||||||||||
Died | May 12, 1967 43) Leech Lake, Minnesota | (aged|||||||||||||
Former partner | Janette Ahrens | |||||||||||||
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Robert Arnold Uppgren (December 14, 1923 - May 12, 1967 [1] ) was an American figure skater. [2] He competed in pair skating with partner Janette Ahrens. [3] He also competed in fours with Ahrens, Mary Louise Premer, and Lyman Wakefield, Jr. and won the 1941 North American title.
By 1967, Uppgren had begun working for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in its Minneapolis offices. On May 12, he died in a helicopter crash in Leech Lake. [4]
(with Ahrens)
Event | 1942 | 1943 |
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U.S. Championships | 2nd | 2nd |
(with Premer, Uppgren, and Wakefield)
Event | 1941 |
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North American Championships | 1st |
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