Edward Bodel

{{short description|American figure skater|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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|name= Edward Lee Bodel

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|birth_date= May 21, 1921{{cite web |title=California Birth Index, 1905-1995 |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/778917:5247?tid=&pid=&queryId=cd5747b34158a749749cb8db9b7e96b2&_phsrc=qTy32&_phstart=successSource |website=Ancestry |access-date=28 November 2022}}

|birth_place= San Francisco, California, U.S.

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|partner= Carmel Bodel

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{{MedalSport| Figure skating}}

{{MedalSport| Ice dancing}}

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{{MedalCompetition | World Championships}}

{{MedalBronze| 1954 Oslo|Ice dancing}}

{{MedalCompetition|North American Championships}}

{{MedalGold|1955 Regina|Ice dancing}}

{{MedalBronze|1953 Cleveland|Ice dancing}}

{{MedalGold|1951 Calgary|Ice dancing}}

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Edward Lee Bodel (May 21, 1921 – May 17, 2008){{cite web |title=U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 |url=https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=3693&h=82627630&tid=&pid=&queryId=cd5747b34158a749749cb8db9b7e96b2&usePUB=true&_phsrc=qTy32&_phstart=successSource |website=Ancestry}} was an American figure skater, competing in ice dance with Carmel Waterbury Bodel. At the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, the Bodels won the bronze medal in 1946 and 1949, the year they married each other, and the gold medal three times, in 1951, 1954, and 1955. They came in first place at the North American Championships in 1951 and 1955 and won the bronze medal at the 1954 World Figure Skating Championships.{{Cite book |last=Hines |first=James R. |url=https://archive.org/details/historicaldictio0000hine/mode/1up?view=theater |title=Historical Dictionary of Figure Skating |date=2011 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-6859-5 |location=Lanham, Md |page=42}}{{Cite news |date=March 18, 1955 |title=Title is Retained by Miss Albright |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/03/18/93799081.html?pageNumber=39 |access-date=10 October 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en |issn=0362-4331}}