Ronald Ludington is an American

United States

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 figure skater

Figure skating

Figure skating is an Olympic sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform spins, jumps, footwork and other intricate and challenging moves on ice skates. Figure skaters compete at various levels from beginner up to the Olympic level , and at local, national, and international competitions...

 and coach. He was born in Boston

Boston

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Biography

With his then-wife, Nancy Rouillard Ludington, he won the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in pair skating

Pair skating

Pair skating is a figure skating discipline. International Skating Union regulations describe pair teams as consisting of "one lady and one man." The sport is distinguished from ice dancing and single skating by elements unique to pair skating, including overhead lifts, twist lifts, death spirals,...

 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

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...

 and 1960 Winter Olympics

1960 Winter Olympics

The 1960 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VIII Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event held between February 18 and 28, 1960 in Squaw Valley, California, United States. In 1955 at the 50th IOC meeting, the organizing committee made the surprise choice to award Squaw Valley as...

. 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

Patricia Dineen

Patricia Major Dineen was an American ice dancer who competed with her husband Robert Dineen. The duo won the Silver dance title at the 1960 United States Figure Skating Championships and then the bronze at the senior level at the 1961 United States Figure Skating Championships, earning them the...

 and Robert Dineen

Robert Dineen

Robert Dineen was an American ice dancer who competed with his wife Patricia Dineen. The duo won Silver dance title at the 1960 United States Figure Skating Championships and then the bronze in the senior division at the 1961 United States Figure Skating Championships, earning them the right to...

, who were killed along with the rest of the U.S. team in the crash of 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...

 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

Kitty Carruthers

Caitlin A. "Kitty" Carruthers is an American figure skater. She competed in pairs with her brother Peter Carruthers. They are the 1981-1984 U.S. national champions, the 1982 World bronze medalists, and the 1984 Olympic silver medalists...

 and Peter Carruthers, the silver medalists in pair skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics

1984 Winter Olympics

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. He was also the coach of ice dancers Carol Fox and Richard Dalley

Richard Dalley

Richard Dalley was an American ice dancer. Nicknamed "Beanie", he is from the Detroit, Michigan area. He competed in ice dance with Carol Fox at the 1984 Winter Olympics. The dance team is probably the most decorated team never to have won the US Championships....

 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

Mary Scotvold

Mary Batdorf Scotvold is an American figure skating coach, best known for her work with Olympic medalists Paul Wylie and Nancy Kerrigan, whom she co-coached with her husband, Evy 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

Melissa Bulanhagui

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Ludington is director of the Skating Science Development Center the University of Delaware Figure Skating Club

University of Delaware Figure Skating Club

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. He was named to the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame

World Figure Skating Hall of Fame

The World Figure Skating Hall of Fame serves as a repository for the sport of figure skating. The World Figure Skating Hall of Fame is where the greatest names in the history of the sport are honored...

 in 1999 and the Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame

Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame

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 in 2000.

Pairs

(with Nancy Ludington

Nancy Ludington

Nancy Irene Rouillard is an American pair skater.-Personal life:She was born in Stoneham, Massachusetts...

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

Ice Dance

(with Lamar)

Event	1958
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 J.