Richard Totten Button (July 18, 1929 – January 30, 2025) was an American figure skater and skating analyst. He was a two-time Olympic champion (1948, 1952) and five-time consecutive world champion (1948–1952). He was also the only non-European man to have become European champion.

11 hours ago · The trophy room at the Skating Club of Boston is named in Button’s honor, and the club has hosted the Dick Button Artistic Figure Skating Showcase, which is designed to promote the beauty and innovation of skating as an art form. Button’s impact on figure skating began after World War II. He was the first U.S. men’s champion — and his ...

1 day ago · Two-time Olympic champion Richard “Dick” Button, whose pioneering style and award-winning television commentary revolutionized the sport of figure skating, died Jan. 30. ... Well known as “The Voice of Figure Skating” from 1960 to 2010, Button was inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2015. While with ABC, his no-holds ...

13 hours ago · Dick Button, whose passionate and often tart commentary on figure skating competitions became a television staple over six decades and made him the sport’s unofficial spokesman, died on Thursday ...

12 hours ago · Dick Button was the first American Olympic figure skating gold medalist in the sport back in 1948, then again in 1952. ... Button also became figure skating’s Howard Cosell, a tuxedoed, Harvard ...

11 hours ago · American figure skating pioneer Dick Button, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, who went on to have an Emmy Award-winning broadcast career as a TV analyst, died Thursday.He was 95. Button is widely ...

11 hours ago · Former figure skater Dick Button attends Figure Skating In Harlem 20th Anniversary Champions In Life Benefit Gala at 583 Park Avenue in New York City, on May 2, 2017.

11 hours ago · FILE - Dick Button of Englewood, N.J., U.S. and North American men's figure skating champion, and winner of the European title, executes a jump during a practice session at St. Moritz, Switzerland ...

12 hours ago · U.S. figure skating icon Dick Button, who won two Olympic gold medals on the ice before becoming the voice of the sport on television, died Thursday, U.S. Figure Skating said. Button was 95.

10 hours ago · Dick Button, the two-time Olympic gold medalist in men's figure skating (1948 and 1952), has died at age 95. He was also known as a longtime figure skating commentator for ABC Sports and later NBC ...