Kenneth Shelley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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figure skater
Date of Birth: 04-Oct-1951
Place of Birth: Downey, California, United States
Profession: figure skater
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Kenneth Shelley
- Kenneth Gene Shelley (born October 4, 1951) is an American figure skater who competed in both singles and pairs.
- As a single skater, he won the 1972 United States Figure Skating Championships and placed 4th at the 1972 Winter Olympics.
- His highest placement at the World Figure Skating Championships was a single skater was 7th, in 1972.
- As a pair skater, he competed with JoJo Starbuck, with whom he is a three-time National Champion.
- Starbuck and Shelley competed in two Olympic Games, placing 13th in 1968 and 4th in 1972, and won two bronze medals at the World Figure Skating Championships.
- When they made the 1968 Olympic team, they were the youngest athletes the United States had ever sent to the Olympics.Shelley was from Downey, California.
- He was first paired with Starbuck for a show in 1959, when they were very small children.
- They started training seriously with coach John Nicks at the Arctic Blades FSC in 1961.
- In their first year of senior competitions, when they were both 16 years old, they qualified to compete at the 1968 Winter Olympics.
- Both Starbuck and Shelley attended Downey High School, where they performed off-ice lifts with the cheerleading squad and Long Beach State College.In the summer of 1969, Shelley had a serious off-ice accident, crashing through a glass patio door at a party.
- He had surgery to repair two severed tendons and spent 5 weeks in a cast.After retiring from competitive skating, Starbuck and Shelley skated in the Ice Capades and competed professionally.
- Shelley was inducted into the U.S.
- Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1994.
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