SOUTHBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) – Edgar Dame, who set several world speedskating records over an eight-year career in the 1940s and 1950s, has died.

Dame, who was 76, died Thursday at Radium Health Care Center after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease.

Dame learned to skate as a 10-year-old growing up in Revere. At the 1949 North American Championships, he set world records at three distances, three-quarter mile (2:04), the mile (2:44) and two miles (6:15).

Between 1947 and 1955, Dame won 22 championships and 23 invitational events.

He was inducted into the Speed Skating Hall of Fame in 1972.