Dorothy Franey

Paul, Minnesota – January 10, 2011 in Dallas, Texas) was an American speed skater who competed in the 1932 Winter Olympics.

[1] As she was from Saint Paul, like other skaters from downriver, she wore the colors of the Hippodrome Skating Club.

According to her Dallas Morning News obituary, Franey won national speed skating championships four years running from 1933 to 1936.

Franey won a major speed skating competition at Powderhorn Lake in 1936.

A Minneapolis Star columnist wrote facetiously that she was “mad at herself” because she broke only one national record that weekend.