Last British woman to win an individual ice-skating gold medal at the Winter Olympics Jeannette Altwegg, who has died aged 90, was the last British woman to win an Olympic individual ice-skating gold medal at the 1952 Winter Games in Oslo. Her rare and celebrated triumph, at the age of 21, would normally have led to a lucrative professional career or at least another couple of tilts at the Olympics as an amateur. But in f
