Nathaniel Niles (figure skater)


Nathaniel William "Nat" Niles was an American tennis player and figure skater who competed in single skating, pair skating, and ice dancing between 1914 and 1932.
He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and died in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Niles won the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in men's single skating three times and nine national pair skating titles with his partner Theresa Weld Blanchard. Blanchard and Niles also won a five national titles in ice dancing.
Nathaniel W. Niles also excelled at tennis, and was inducted into the New England Tennis Hall of Fame in 2000. While a student at Harvard, he was an NCAA champion for the sport. He competed in 23 successive U.S. National Championships. With Edith Rotch, he won the 1908 mixed doubles title, and in 1917, he reached the singles final, losing to Robert Lindley Murray in four sets. He also reached the semifinals in 1913 and the quarterfinals in 1904, 1911 and 1918.
Niles died in 1932 at the age of 46. His last figure skating competition, with Blanchard, had been the pairs event at the 1932 World Figure Skating Championships earlier the same year.

Figure skating results

Singles career

Pairs career

Event19141918192019211922192319241925192619271928192919301932
Olympic Games4th6th9th
World Championships7th6th8th
North American Championships2nd1st2nd2nd
U.S. Championships2nd1st1st1st1st1st1st1st1st1st2nd2nd

Tennis Grand Slam finals

Singles (1 runner-up)

ResultYearChampionshipSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss1917U.S. ChampionshipsGrass Robert Lindley Murray7–5, 6–8, 3–6, 3–6

Mixed doubles (1 title)

ResultYearChampionshipSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Win1908U.S. ChampionshipsGrass Edith Rotch Louise Hammond Raymond
Raymond Little		6–4, 4–6, 6–4