Robert Uppgren

Robert Arnold Uppgren

Personal information

Country represented

Born

December 14, 1923

Died

May 12, 1967 (aged 43)

Former partner

Medal record

Representing the United States
Fours' Figure skating
North American Championships
	1941 Philadelphia	Fours

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.

Competitive highlights

(with Ahrens)

Event	1942	1943
U.S. Championships	2nd	2nd

(with Premer, Uppgren, and Wakefield)

Event	1941
North American Championships	1st

↑ Uppgren, Robert Arnold. "Minnesota, Death Index, 1908-2002". familysearch.org. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
↑ "Chicago Skater Wins National Senior Title". Christian Science Monitor. 24 February 1942. p. 16. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
↑ "Competitions". Dance Magazine. Rudor Pub. Co.: 40 1943. Retrieved 24 March 2011.

North American champions in figure skating – Fours

1923: Elizabeth Blair, Florence Wilson, Philip H. Chrysler, C.R. Morphy 1933-1937: Margaret Davis, Prudence Holbrook, Melville Rogers, Guy Owen 1939: Dorothy Caley, Hazel Caley, Ralph McCreath, Montgomery Wilson 1941: Janette Ahrens, Mary Louise Premer, Robert Uppgren, Lyman Wakefield, Jr. 1949 Janet Gerhauser, Marilyn Thomsen, Marlyn Thomsen, John Nightingale

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