Kristi Yamaguchi

Tuesday, 27 November 2012

1992 Worlds Ladies' Free Skating - Kristi Yamaguchi

Kristi Yamaguchi OP 1992 Albertville Winter Olympic Games

Kristi Yamaguchi & Mark Ballas on DWTS season 7

San Jose Sports Hall of Fame 〔Kristi Yamaguchi〕

Kristi Yamaguchi (USA) - 1992 Albertville, Ladies' Free Skate

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Alberta
Alberta /ælˈbɜrtə/ is a province of Canada. It had a population of 3,645,257 in 2011, making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces. Alberta and its neighbour, Saskatchewan, were established as provinces on September 1, 1905.
Alberta is located in western Canada, bounded by the provinces of British Columbia to the west and Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories to the north, and the US state of Montana to the south. Alberta is one of three Canadian provinces and territories to border only a single U.S. state and is also one of only two provinces that are landlocked.
Edmonton, the capital city of Alberta, is located near the geographic centre of the province and is the primary supply and service hub for Canada's oil sands and other northern resource industries. Approximately 300 kilometres (190 mi) south of the capital is Calgary, Alberta's largest city and a major distribution and transportation hub. Calgary and Edmonton centre Alberta's two census metropolitan areas, both of which have populations exceeding 1 million.Census agglomerations in the province include Lethbridge, Red Deer, Medicine Hat, Wood Buffalo (includes Fort McMurray), Grande Prairie, Lloydminster, Okotoks, Brooks, Camrose, Cold Lake, High River, Sylvan Lake, Wetaskiwin, Strathmore, Canmore, and Lacombe. Notable tourist destinations in the province include Canmore, Sylvan Lake, Drumheller, Banff, and Jasper.

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Edmonton
Edmonton /ˈɛdməntən/ is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta, Canada. Edmonton is located on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by the central region of the province.
The city and its census metropolitan area had populations of 812,201 and 1,159,869 as of the 2011 Census respectively, making it Alberta's second-largest city, Canada's fifth-largest municipality and Canada's sixth-largest metropolitan area by population. Edmonton is the northernmost North American city with a metropolitan population over one million. A resident of Edmonton is known as an Edmontonian.
The majority of Edmonton's metropolitan population lives within the City of Edmonton rather than in the surrounding suburban municipalities. Historically, Edmonton was surrounded by few other urban municipalities (Strathcona, Beverly and Jasper Place being the largest) but these were absorbed through amalgamation or annexation. Edmonton annexed a significant amount of land up until the early 1980s, and as a result it has sustained much of the region's suburban growth within its own boundaries.

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France
France (English ⁱ/ˈfræns/ FRANSS or /ˈfrɑːns/ FRAHNSS; French: [fʁɑ̃s] ( listen)), officially the French Republic (French: République française [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz]), is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. It is often referred to as l’Hexagone ("The Hexagon") because of the geometric shape of its territory. It is the largest western European country and it possesses the second-largest exclusive economic zone in the world, covering 11,035,000 km² (4,260,000 sq mi), just behind that of the United States (11,351,000 km² / 4,383,000 sq mi).
Over the past 500 years, France has been a major power with strong cultural, economic, military and political influence in Europe and around the world. During the 17th and 18th centuries, France colonised great parts of North America and Southeast Asia; during the 19th and early 20th centuries, France built the second largest colonial empire of the time, including large portions of North, West and Central Africa, Southeast Asia, and many Caribbean and Pacific Islands.

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Fremont, California
Fremont ( /ˈfriːmɒnt/) is a city in Alameda County, California. It was incorporated on January 23, 1956, from the merger of five smaller communities: Centerville, Niles, Irvington, Mission San Jose, and Warm Springs. The city is named after John Charles Frémont, "the Great Pathfinder."
Located in the southeast section of the San Francisco Bay Area in the East Bay region primarily, Fremont is now the fourth most populous city in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the largest suburb in the metropolis. It is the closest Alameda County city to Silicon Valley, and is thus sometimes associated with it.
The area consisting of Fremont, Newark (an enclave of Fremont), and Union City was formerly known as Washington Township, and is now known as the Tri-City Area.
Fremont is the sister city to Elizabeth, South Australia; Puerto Peñasco, Mexico; Fukaya, Japan; Horta, Azores, Portugal; Lipa City, Philippines; and Jaipur, India.
The 2010 United States Census reported that Fremont had a population of 214,089. The population density was 2,443.7 people per square mile (943.5/km²). The racial makeup of Fremont was 70,320 (32.8%) White, 7,103 (3.3%) African American, 976 (0.5%) Native American, 108,332 (50.6%) Asian (18.1% Indian, 17.8% Chinese, 6.7% Filipino, 2.5% Vietnamese, 2.3% Thai, 1.8% Korean, 1.3% Hmong, 1.0% Pakistani, 0.8% Japanese, 0.6% Burmese), 1,169 (0.5%) Pacific Islander, 13,605 (6.4%) from other races, and 12,584 (5.9%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 31,698 persons (14.8%). Among the Hispanic population, 11.0% are Mexican, 0.6% Puerto Rican, and 0.5% Salvadoran. Non-Hispanic Whites were 26.5% of the population in 2010, down from 85.4% in 1970.

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Germany
Germany (ⁱ/ˈdʒɜrməni/), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, pronounced [ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant] ( listen)), is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km² and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With 81.8 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state and the largest economy in the European Union. It is one of the major political powers of the European continent and a technological leader in many fields.
A region named Germania, inhabited by several Germanic peoples, was documented before AD 100. During the Migration Period, the Germanic tribes expanded southward, and established successor kingdoms throughout much of Europe. Beginning in the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th century, northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation while southern and western parts remained dominated by Roman Catholic denominations, with the two factions clashing in the Thirty Years' War, marking the beginning of the Catholic–Protestant divide that has characterized German society ever since. Occupied during the Napoleonic Wars, the rise of Pan-Germanism inside the German Confederation resulted in the unification of most of the German states into the German Empire in 1871 which was Prussian dominated. After the German Revolution of 1918–1919 and the subsequent military surrender in World War I, the Empire was replaced by the Weimar Republic in 1918, and partitioned in the Treaty of Versailles. Amidst the Great Depression, the Third Reich was proclaimed in 1933. The latter period was marked by Fascism and World War II. After 1945, Germany was divided by allied occupation, and evolved into two states, East Germany and West Germany. In 1990 Germany was reunified.

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Hayward, California
Hayward ( /ˈheɪwərd/; formerly, Haywards, Haywards Station, and Haywood) is a city located in the East Bay in Alameda County, California. With a population of 144,186, Hayward is the sixth largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area and the third largest in Alameda County. Hayward was ranked as the 37th most populous municipality in California. It is included in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont Metropolitan Statistical Area by the US Census. It is located primarily between Castro Valley and Union City, and lies at the eastern terminus of the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge. The city was devastated early in its history by the namesake 1868 Hayward earthquake. From the early 20th century until the beginning of the 1980s, Hayward's economy was dominated by its food canning industry.
Human habitation of the greater East Bay, including Hayward, dates from at least 4000 B.C.E.. The most recent pre-European inhabitants of the Hayward area were the Native American Ohlone people.
In the 19th century, the land that is now Hayward became part of Rancho San Lorenzo, a Spanish land grant to Guillermo Castro in 1841. The site of his home was on the former El Camino Viejo, or Castro Street (now Mission Boulevard) between C and D Streets, but the structure was severely damaged in the 1868 Hayward earthquake, with the Hayward Fault running directly under its location. Most of the city's structures were destroyed in the earthquake, the last major earthquake on the fault. In 1930, that site was chosen for the construction of the City Hall, which served the city until 1969. The surrounding area is still the center of town.^{[citation needed]}

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Japan
Japan ⁱ/dʒəˈpæn/ (Japanese: 日本 Nihon or Nippon; formally 日本国 Nippon-koku or Nihon-koku, literally the State of Japan) is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters that make up Japan's name mean "sun-origin", which is why Japan is sometimes referred to as the "Land of the Rising Sun".
Japan is an archipelago of 6,852 islands. The four largest islands are Honshū, Hokkaidō, Kyūshū and Shikoku, together accounting for ninety-seven percent of Japan's land area. Japan has the world's tenth-largest population, with over 127 million people. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes the de facto capital city of Tokyo and several surrounding prefectures, is the largest metropolitan area in the world, with over 30 million residents.
Archaeological research indicates that people lived in Japan as early as the Upper Paleolithic period. The first written mention of Japan is in Chinese history texts from the 1st century AD. Influence from other nations followed by long periods of isolation has characterized Japan's history. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, victory in the First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War and World War I allowed Japan to expand its empire during a period of increasing militarism. The Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937 expanded into part of World War II in 1941, which came to an end in 1945 following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Since adopting its revised constitution in 1947, Japan has maintained a unitary constitutional monarchy with an emperor and an elected parliament called the Diet.

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Los Angeles County
Los Angeles County (incorporated as the County of Los Angeles) is a county in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the county had a population of 9,818,605, making it the most populous county in the United States. Los Angeles County alone is more populous than 42 individual U.S. states. The county seat is the city of Los Angeles, the largest city in California and the second-largest city in the United States (after New York City).
Los Angeles County also includes two offshore islands, San Clemente Island and Santa Catalina Island. The county is home to 88 incorporated cities and many unincorporated areas. At 4,083 square miles (10,570 km²), it is larger than the combined areas of the states of Rhode Island and Delaware.
The county is home to over a quarter of all California residents and is one of the most diverse counties in the country.
Los Angeles County was one of the original counties of California, created at the time of statehood in 1850. The county's large area included parts of what is now Kern County, San Bernardino County, Riverside County and Orange County. These parts of the county's territory were given to San Bernardino County in 1853, to Kern County in 1866 and to Orange County in 1889. In 1893, part of San Bernardino County became Riverside County.

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San Francisco
San Francisco (/ˌsæn frənˈsɪskoʊ/), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.6 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland. The only consolidated city-county in California, it encompasses a land area of about 46.9 square miles (121 km²) on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, giving it a density of about 17,179 people per square mile (6,632 people per km²). It is the most densely settled large city (population greater than 200,000) in the state of California and the second-most densely populated large city in the United States after New York City. San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 13th most populous city in the United States, with a population of 805,235 as of the 2010 Census. The San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont metropolitan area has a population of 4,335,391.
In 1776, colonists from Spain established a fort at the Golden Gate and a mission named for Francis of Assisi a few miles away. The California Gold Rush of 1849 propelled the city into a period of rapid growth, increasing the population in one year from 1,000 to 25,000, and thus transforming it into the largest city on the West Coast at the time. After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. During World War II, San Francisco was the port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, massive immigration, liberalizing attitudes, and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States.

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U.S.
The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km²) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.

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United States
The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km²) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.

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Adam Carolla
Adam Carolla (born May 27, 1964) is an American radio personality, television host, comedian, and actor. He hosts The Adam Carolla Show, a talk show distributed as a podcast which set the record as the "most downloaded podcast" as judged by Guinness World Records.
Carolla co-hosted the syndicated radio call-in program Loveline from 1995 to 2005 as well as the show's television incarnation on MTV from 1996 to 2000. He was the co-host and co-creator of the television program The Man Show (1999–2004), and the co-creator and a regular performer on the television show Crank Yankers (2002–2007). He hosted The Adam Carolla Project, a home improvement television program which aired on TLC in 2005 and The Car Show on Speed TV in 2011.
Carolla has also appeared on the network reality television programs Dancing with the Stars and The Celebrity Apprentice. His book, In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks, debuted on The New York Times Best Seller list in 2010.
Carolla was born in Los Angeles, California. His father, Jim Carolla, a psychologist of Italian heritage, and his mother, Kris (née Novello), who is of Hungarian descent, separated when Adam was young. Carolla was not given a middle name; on his driver's license application he filled the "middle name" blank with "Lakers" (after his love for the Los Angeles Lakers professional basketball team) and the made-up name still appears on his license.

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Alena Leonova
Alena Igorevna Leonova (Russian: Алёна Игоревна Леонова, born 23 November 1990) is a Russian figure skater. She is the 2012 World silver medalist, the 2011 Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, the 2009 World Junior champion, two-time (2010–2011) Russian national silver medalist and the 2012 Russian national bronze medalist.
Leonova was born in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. She started skating at the age of 4. Her sister and brother also skated when they were young. Leonova was initially coached by Marina Vakhrameeva and later moved to the group of Tatiana Mishina, who was assisted by Alla Piatova; Piatova formed her own group and became Leonova's main coach when she was 10.
In her Junior career, Leonova was the two-time Coupe de Nice gold medalist and won silver at the 2007 Junior Grand Prix Romania, Leonova also won the silver medal at the 2008 Russian Junior Championships. In August 2008, she partially tore ligaments in her right ankle joint. She placed 4th at the 2009 European Championships. Leonova was then placed on the team to the 2009 World Junior Championships and won the World Junior title. After her win, the Russian Federation rented an apartment for her.^{[citation needed]}

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Alena Vrzáňová
Alena "Ája" Vrzáňová (Czech pronunciation: [ˈalɛna ˈaːja ˈvr̩zaːɲovaː]) (also Zanová, married name: Steindler) (born 16 May 1931), is a Czech former figure skater who represented Czechoslovakia in competition. Vrzáňová is the 1949 & 1950 World Champion and 1950 European Champion. She was inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2009.
Vrzáňová was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1931. Besides figure skating she also played piano and attended ballet school.
After spending the winter of 1949 at home in Czechoslovakia, her father advised her not to come back from the upcoming World Championships and she agreed. She defected from Czechoslovakia during the 1950 World Championships in London and was eventually offered political asylum. Her mother followed her in March under dramatic circumstances: her plane was hijacked. Her father, professional cello player, visited them several times, but never decided to join them leaving his country. She herself did not return to Prague till 1990.

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Alexei Torchinski
Alexei Torchinski is a former Soviet pairs figure skater. He won three World Junior Figure Skating Championships with partner Natalia Krestianinova.
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Aliona Savchenko
Aliona Savchenko (Ukrainian: Олена Валентинівна Савченко / Olena Valentinivna Savchenko, also Romanized Aljona Sawtschenko; born 19 January 1984 in Kiev, Ukraine SSR, Soviet Union) is a German-Ukrainian pair skater. With partner Robin Szolkowy, she is a four-time (2008, 2009, 2011, 2012) World Champion, the 2010 Olympic bronze medalist, a four-time (2007–2009, 2011) European Champion, a three-time (2007, 2010, 2011) Grand Prix Final Champion, and a seven-time (2004–2009, 2011) German National Champion.
With former partner Stanislav Morozov, she won the 2000 World Junior Championships and was the 2000 & 2001 Ukrainian Champion. They represented Ukraine at the 2002 Winter Olympics, where they placed 15th.
Savchenko & Szolkowy scored the first 10.0 ever given by a judge under the ISU Judging System.
Aliona Savchenko was born in Obukhiv, near Kiev. Her father is a former weightlifter and she has three brothers. She is the only athlete of the four.
In April 2010, Savchenko became godmother to Galina Efremenko's daughter.

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Anett Pötzsch
Anett Pötzsch (born 3 June 1960) is a retired German figure skater. She is the 1980 Olympic Champion in Ladies Singles, two-time world champion (1978, 1980), four-time European champion (1977–1980) and five-time East German champion (1976–1980).
Her first name is sometimes incorrectly spelled "Annett." The old East German newspapers always spelled it with a single 'n'.
Pötzsch represented the GDR (East Germany) in the ladies events at international championships. Her first coach was Brigitte Schellhorn. After Pötzsch was admitted into a sports academy, Gabriele Seyfert was assigned as her coach and later, Seyfert's mother, Jutta Müller, took over coaching duties. She was the Olympic Champion in 1980 and world champion in 1978 and 1980. She also won the European title four times, from 1977 to 1980; and the East German title five times, from 1976 to 1980. In 1981, she announced her retirement, saying in 2011, "I had knee problems and I was not motivated because I had reached all my goals" but she said she later regretted her decision.

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Anton Sikharulidze
Anton Tarielyevich Sikharulidze (Russian: Антон Тариэльевич Сихарулидзе, born 25 October 1976 in St. Petersburg) is a Russian pair skater. With Elena Berezhnaya, he is the 1998 and 1999 World champion, 1998 Olympic silver medalist and 2002 Olympic champion.
His first partner was Maria Petrova, with whom he became the 1994 and 1995 World Junior Champion. He began competing with Berezhnaya in 1996 after helping her recover from an accident with her previous partner. Within two years of the accident, Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze had established themselves as one of the best pair teams in the world. During their competitive career, they were coached by Tamara Moskvina at the Yubileyny Sports Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and the Ice House in Hackensack, New Jersey. Their Olympic gold medals are shared with Canadian pair Jamie Salé and David Pelletier.
Sikharulidze was born in Saint Petersburg. After seeing a neighbor's boy with skates, he asked his parents for skates as well. At the age of 15, with skating taking up a lot of his time and limiting his personal life, he considered leaving the sport but his father encouraged him to persevere.

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Apolo Ohno
Apolo Anton Ohno (/əˈpɒloʊ ˈæntɒn ˈoʊnoʊ/; born May 22, 1982) is an American short track speed skating competitor and an eight-time medalist (two gold, two silver, four bronze) in the Winter Olympics. He is the most decorated American Winter Olympic athlete of all time.
Raised by his father, Ohno began training full-time in 1996. He has been the face of short track in the United States since winning his medals at the 2002 Winter Olympics. At the age of 14, he became the youngest U.S. national champion in 1997 and was the reigning champion from 2001–2009, winning the title a total of 12 times. In December 1999, he became the youngest skater to win a World Cup event title, and became the first American to win a World Cup overall title in 2001, which he won again in 2003 and 2005. He won his first overall World Championship title at the 2008 championships.
During the 2002 Winter Olympics, there were two controversies associated with Ohno. The first was whether or not he intentionally finished third in a qualification race during the U.S. Olympic Trials to allow Shani Davis to make the team. The second occurred when he won the gold medal in the 1500 m race after the disqualification of the first skater to cross the finish line, South Korean Kim Dong-Sung, for blocking Ohno. The disqualification upset South Korean supporters and had a lingering negative effect on Ohno's reputation in South Korea.

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Ashley Wagner
Ashley Wagner (born May 16, 1991) is an American figure skater. She is the 2012 Four Continents champion, the 2012 U.S. champion and a two-time (2008 and 2010) U.S. bronze medalist. She is a two-time (2007 and 2009) World Junior bronze medalist. She placed fourth at the 2012 World Championships.
Ashley Wagner is the first child and only daughter of LTC Eric Wagner, U.S. Army (Retired) and Melissa Wagner. A military brat, Wagner was born on a U.S. Army Base in Heidelberg, Germany, where her father was stationed at the time. Although she was born in Germany, she is a United States citizen, because her parents are U.S. citizens. Her father is a retired Army lieutenant colonel, and her mother is a retired fourth-grade teacher. Her younger brother Austin is also a skater and competes on the national level.
Because Wagner's father was in the military, her family moved seven times during Wagner's childhood. Besides Germany, she has lived in California, Alaska, Kansas, Washington State, and Virginia. Wagner currently lives in Alexandria, Virginia, but considers Seabeck, WA home. She previously attended Northern Virginia Community College via their online study program. Wagner attended West Potomac High School through the 2007/2008 school year. She had previously attended Whitman Middle School. Wagner was home schooled by her mother for half a year before entering Whitman Middle School but returned to public school because she missed it.

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Barbara Ann Scott
Barbara Ann Scott King, (born May 9, 1928 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a four-time Canadian figure skating Champion (1944–46, 48). She is the 1948 Olympic Champion and two-time World Champion (1947–1948) in ladies singles. Known as "Canada's Sweetheart", she is the only Canadian to win the ladies singles figure skating gold medal, the first North American to win three major titles in one year and the only Canadian to win the European Championship (1947–1948). During her forties she was rated among the top equestrians in North America. She has received many honours and accolades, including being made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1991 and a member of the Order of Ontario in 2008.
Barbara Ann Scott is the youngest of three children born to Canadian Army Colonel Clyde Rutherford Scott and Mary Purves of Sandy Hill in Ottawa. She began skating at the age of seven with the Minto Skating Club. At the age of ten she became the youngest ever to pass the "gold figures test" and at eleven years old won her first national junior title. Two years later, in 1942, she became the first female to ever land a double lutz in competition, and by the age of fifteen was Canada's "senior champion". From 1944 to 1946, she held the Canadian Figure Skating championship. In 1947 Scott became the first North American to win both the European and World Figure Skating championships, and remains the only Canadian to win the European title. This led to her being voted Canadian Newsmaker of the Year in 1947. On her return to Ottawa during a parade she was given a yellow Buick convertible (license plate: 47-U-1); however it had to be returned for her to retain amateur status, so as to be able to compete in the 1948 Winter Olympics.

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Barbara Roles
Barbara Ann Roles (married names: Pursley, Williams), born April 6, 1941 in San Mateo, California) is an American former figure skater who currently works as a coach. She is the 1960 Olympic bronze medalist and the 1962 United States Champion.
She retired following the 1960 Olympic season and had a child (Shelley Pursley Boatright). She was asked to come out of retirement after the Sabena Flight 548 crashed and killed the entire 1961 US Figure Skating Team. Roles complied and won the gold medal at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in 1962 making her the first skater^{[citation needed]} to win a gold medal in novice, junior and senior nationals. She was the only skater to accomplish this until Kimmie Meisner performed the same feat in 2007.
Later in 1962 she had a son (Ronald Dean Pursley Chorak) whose middle name she named after her mentor, Deane McMinn, who died in the 1961 plane crash. After missing the 1963 season, she again came out of retirement in an attempt to qualify for the 1964 Winter Olympics, but only placed 5th at the national championships and failed to make the team.

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Barbara Underhill
Barbara Ann Underhill (born on June 24, 1963 in Port Elgin, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian pair skater. With partner Paul Martini, she is the 1984 World champion, the 1979-1983 Canadian national champion, and the 1978 World Junior champion. They represented Canada at the 1980 Winter Olympics, where they placed 9th, and at the 1984 Winter Olympics, where they placed 7th.
Underhill worked for 16 years as a skating commentator until 2006. She then began working with hockey players to develop their speed and power, using her background in figure skating and Dartfish software.
Underhill initially worked with the Guelph Storm, of which her husband is a part owner, and then began working with the NHL teams New York Rangers, Anaheim Ducks and Tampa Bay Lightning. Underhill was named in the 2011 edition of The Hockey News's list of the 100 most influential people in ice hockey due to her power skating coaching.
Underhill also appeared on CBC TV's Battle of the Blades.
Underhill joined the National Hockey League's Toronto Maple Leafs as the team's Skating Consultant on April 20, 2012.

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Beatrix Loughran
Beatrix S. Loughran (June 30, 1900 in New York City – December 7, 1975) was an American figure skater who competed in single skating and pair skating. She is the only American to win three Olympic medals in figure skating (1924, 1928, 1932). She is a six-time National champion (1925–1927 in singles, 1930–1932 in pairs). Her pairs partner was Sherwin Badger.
She was the aunt of three-time national medalist Audrey Peppe.
In 1997, Loughran was inducted into the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame.
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Benjamin Okolski
Benjamin Okolski (born on November 12, 1984 in Tucson, Arizona) is an American pair skater. He is best known for his partnership with Brooke Castile, with whom he teamed up following the 2002 U.S. Championships. They are the 2007 2007 U.S. National Champions, 2008 Four Continents bronze medalists, and 2007 Nebelhorn Trophy champions. Castile and Okolski missed their 2007 and 2008 Grand Prix events due to injury. They announced their retirement from competitive skating in May 2010.
(with Colleen Okolski)
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Brooke Castile
Brooke Castile (born on May 31, 1986 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American pair skater. She is best known for her partnership with Benjamin Okolski, with whom she teamed up following the 2002 U.S. Championships. They are the 2007 U.S. National Champions, 2008 Four Continents bronze medalists, and 2007 Nebelhorn Trophy champions. Castile and Okolski missed their 2007 and 2008 Grand Prix events due to injury. They announced their retirement from competitive skating in May 2010.
In November 2010, Castile was cast on ABC's Skating with the Stars, partnered with Jonny Moseley. Moseley sliced her finger in a practice accident. In January 2012, it was announced that she would take part in the U.K.'s Dancing on Ice, partnered with Corey Feldman.
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Caitlin Yankowskas
Caitlin Yankowskas (born May 6, 1990 in Nashua, New Hampshire) is an American pair skater, best known for her partnership with John Coughlin, with whom she skated from 2007 to 2011. They won the 2011 U.S. national title. Her current partner is Joshua Reagan.
Caitlin Yankowskas was raised in Pelham, New Hampshire. She was homeschooled and took ballet lessons in addition to skating. She was a member of the Methuen Ballet Ensemble in Salem, New Hampshire for five years before moving to Colorado Springs. Her father has a dental practice in Massachusetts. She has an older sister, Erica.
Yankowskas began skating at the age of six. She skated with Daniyel Cohen in pairs at the novice level while competing as a single skater at the same time and at the same level. She and Cohen were the 2007 U.S. novice silver medalists. She did not make it out of sectionals as a single skater. Yankowskas and Cohen were coached by Alexander Vlassov and Laura Amelina.
In June 2007, Yankowskas had a tryout with new coach Dalilah Sappenfield in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Sappenfield suggested John Coughlin as a potential partner and they had a tryout in early August 2007. They placed 6th at the 2008 U.S. Championships and made their Grand Prix debut at the 2008 Skate America.

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Calla Urbanski
Calla V. Urbanski-Petka is an American pair skater. With partner Rocky Marval, she is the 1992-1993 U.S. National Champion. They finished 10th at the 1992 Winter Olympics. They were dubbed "The Waitress and the Truck Driver" by the media because of their former occupations. They split up in the summer of 1992. They teamed up again and turned pro, enjoying several successful years as pros in the mid-1990s. Urbanski currently coaches and lives in Wilmington, Delaware.
Over the years, Urbanksi's other partners have included Michael Blicharski, Mark Naylor, and Joe Mero.
(with Blicharski)
(with Naylor)
(with Marval)

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Carol Heiss
Carol Elizabeth Heiss Jenkins (born January 20, 1940 in New York City) is an American figure skater. She is the 1960 Olympic Champion in Ladies Singles, 1956 Olympic silver medalist and five-time World Champion (1956–1960).
Heiss grew up in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens, New York, where she started skating at the age of 6. She was coached by Pierre Brunet. Heiss first came to national prominence in 1951, when she was U.S. Novice Ladies' Champion at age 11. She won the U.S. Junior Ladies title in 1952, and then moved up to the senior level in 1953. From 1953 to 1956, she finished second to Tenley Albright at the national championships.
Heiss's 1956 performance qualified her for the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. She won the silver medal, while Albright took the gold. However, at the following World Figure Skating Championships at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany, Heiss defeated Albright for the title; it was the first of her five consecutive world titles. During that time, she attended and graduated from New York University.

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Carole Ormaca
Carole Anne Ormaca Butler (born June 2, 1936 in Fresno, California) was an American pair skater who competed with Robin Greiner. The duo won the gold medal at the United States Figure Skating Championships four straight times, beginning in 1953. They also placed fourth at the World Figure Skating Championships three times and finished in fifth place at the 1956 Winter Olympic Games.
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Carolina Kostner
Carolina Kostner (born 8 February 1987) is an Italian figure skater. She is the 2012 World champion and has three other World medals (2008, silver; 2011 and 2005, bronze). Kostner is also a four-time European champion (2007, 2008, 2010, 2012) and has three other European medals (2009 and 2011 silver, 2006 bronze), the 2011–12 Grand Prix Final champion, the 2010–11 Grand Prix Final silver medalist, the 2007–2008 Grand Prix Final and 2008–2009 Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, the 2003 World Junior bronze medalist, and a six-time Italian champion.
Carolina Kostner was born in Bolzano, Italy and lives in Urtijëi (Ortisei/St. Ulrich), Italy. She began skating at age 4. Her mother, Patrizia, was a nationally ranked figure skater in the 1970s. She was also a geometric arts teacher. Her father, Erwin, played ice hockey for the Italian national team at the World Championships and Olympic Games and presently coaches ice hockey teams. One of her grandfathers was the director of the Art Academy in her hometown. She has two brothers, one year older Martin and three years younger Simon, who plays ice hockey competitively in JYP-Akatemia in Jyväskylä, Finland. Kostner is the cousin and godchild of Isolde Kostner, a silver medalist in alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

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Caroline Zhang
Caroline ZhaoZhang (born May 20, 1993) is an American figure skater. She is the 2010 and 2012 Four Continents bronze medalist, the 2007 World Junior Champion, the 2006–2007 Junior Grand Prix Final Champion, the 2009 U.S. bronze medalist and the 2008 and 2012 U.S. pewter medalist.
Caroline Zhang is a Chinese American. Her Chinese given name is Yuan-Yuan (simplified Chinese: 张圆圆; traditional Chinese: 張圓圓; pinyin: Zhāng Yuányuán), which literally means round-round, and that is the name by which she is known in China and referred to in the Chinese media. She was born in Boston and moved to California at a young age. Her parents are from Wuhan, China, and her older sister, Yang Yang, was born in China. The Zhang family currently lives in Brea, California. Caroline Zhang is bilingual in English and Mandarin.
Zhang is proficient at the piano, was concert master in her middle school's orchestra on violin, and was a ballet dancer before switching to figure skating.
She trains at the East West Ice Palace in Artesia, which is the rink owned by the Kwan family.

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Carolyn Skoczen
Carolyn Skoczen is a former Canadian figure skater. She won the World Junior Figure Skating Championships in 1977.

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Cecilia Colledge
Magdelena Cecilia Colledge (28 November 1920 – 12 April 2008) was a British figure skater. She was the 1936 Olympic silver medalist, the 1937 World Champion, the 1937–1939 European Champion, and a six-time (1935–1938, 1946) British national champion.
Colledge is credited as being the first female skater to perform a double jump, as well as being the inventor of both of the camel spin and the layback spin.
Cecilia Colledge grew up in London. Her father, Lionel, was a throat surgeon. Her brother Maule was in the Royal Air Force and died during World War II.
Colledge began skating after watching the 1928 World Figure Skating Championships, which were held in London. Reports differ on her influence to begin skating; some state that she was inspired by Sonja Henie, others that Colledge's mother, Margaret, met the mother of Maribel Vinson, who also competed at those World Championships, and this meeting between the mothers inspired Colledge's mother to begin Cecilia in figure skating.
She was coached by Eva Keats and Jacques Gerschwiler.

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Chen Lu
Chen Lu (simplified Chinese: 陈露; traditional Chinese: 陳露; pinyin: Chén Lù) (born 24 November 1976) is a Chinese figure skater. She is the 1994 and 1998 Olympic bronze medalist and the 1995 World Champion. Chen won the first ever Olympic medal in figure skating for China.
Chen was born in Changchun, China in 1976 as the daughter of an ice hockey coach and a table tennis player. She was one of the most decorated figure skaters of the 1990s winning two Olympic medals, four World medals, and nine national titles. Her success brought attention to Chinese figure skating and spurred more Chinese success.
As a young skater in the early 90's, Chen demonstrated both athletic and artistic potential. In fact, she often out-jumped many of her contemporaries and the World's top figure skaters, including Kristi Yamaguchi, Midori Ito, Tonya Harding, Surya Bonaly, and Nancy Kerrigan. For example, she landed seven triple jumps, including a triple toeloop/triple toeloop combination at the 1991 World Championships held in Munich, Germany. During the free skating portion of the event, she landed more triple jumps than the top 5 finishers. This generated excitement about her prospects at a time when triple jumps were beginning to dominate women's figure skating, while Chen's artistic talents were praised by such American commentators as Scott Hamilton and Sandra Bezic.

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Christine Errath
Christine Errath (born 29 December 1956 in Berlin, Germany) is a German figure skater who represented East Germany in competition. She is the 1976 Olympic bronze medalist.
Errath skated for the club SC Dynamo Berlin where she was coached by Inge Wischnewski.
She was especially strong in free skating. In 1972 the changes in judging rules lead to a reduction of the importance of compulsory figures, and this worked to her advantage in winning competitions. Representing East Germany, she was World Champion in 1974, three-time European Champion between 1973 and 1975, and winner of the bronze medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics.
Until 1973 her chief rival was Sonja Morgenstern, another skater from East Germany who was coached by Jutta Müller. In 1976 she faced another serious rival named Anett Pötzsch, also coached by Jutta Müller. Errath lost the competition to Pötzsch at the 1976 Europeans, winning only the bronze medal, but came back to medal at the Olympics and the next Worlds.
Errath was married to Ulrich Trettin, a former East German tennis champion. The marriage ended in divorce. She is a mother of two children.

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Cindy Bortz
Cindy Bortz is a former American figure skater. She is the 1987 World Junior champion.
She is now married (her married name is Cindy Bortz-Gould). She teaches skating in Simi Valley, California.
She is Jewish, and was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2006.
Bortz-Gould also appeared on TLC's show Ice Diaries in 2006, where one of her students, Danielle Kahle, was featured.
She is now an ice skating instructor in ice rinks located in California.

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Danielle Hartsell
Danielle Hartsell (b. November 21, 1980, Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American pair skater. With brother Steve Hartsell, she is the 1999 U.S. National Champion and 1997 World Junior Champion. She married Chris Minnis on September 20, 2003
Ladies' Singles
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Daria Timoshenko
Daria Timoshenko (born August 1, 1980 in Moscow) is a Russian Azerbaijani figure skater. She is the 1999 World Junior champion for Russia. She represented Russia until 2000 and then began competing for Azerbaijan.
Timoshenko was formerly married to Igor Lukanin.

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Denise Biellmann
Denise Biellmann (born December 11, 1962) is a Swiss professional figure skater. She is the 1981 European and World Champion. She won the Swiss Championships three times.
Denise Biellmann was born in Zurich. At age eleven, she won the Swiss junior figure skating championships. At 14, she competed at the 1977 European Championships and placed second in the free skating portion of the competition.
At the age of 15, she was the first female skater to land the triple lutz in competition, which she performed for the first time at the 1978 European Championships. At the same event, she became the first woman to receive a 6.0 in technical merit, receiving the score from British judge Pauline Borrajo. She was 12th in figures, first in the free skate, and finished fourth overall.
At the 1980 Winter Olympics, she won the free skating event and placed fourth overall.
The Biellmann spin was named after her, although she did not invent the spin but popularized it. It was present in skating at least since the 1965 European Championships when Tamara Moskvina performed it after being inspired by a gymnastics competition. It remains the only figure skating spin to be officially named after a person in ISU regulations. Nevertheless, by the end of her ISU career, the spin was causing her back pain.

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Derek Hough
Derek Hough ( /ˈhʌf/; born May 17, 1985) is an American dancer, choreographer, musician and actor. A world champion in Latin American Dance, Hough has appeared since September 2007 (Seasons 5 - 11 and Season 13) on the hit U.S. television series Dancing with the Stars, where he is currently a three-time champion (with Brooke Burke, Nicole Scherzinger, and Jennifer Grey), one-time finalist (with Ricki Lake), three-time semi-finalist (with Jennie Garth, Joanna Krupa, and Maria Menounos), and a quarter-finalist (with Lil' Kim). Hough has earned three Creative Arts Primetime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Choreography (2009 and 2010 ) for his work on the show.
Prior to joining Dancing with the Stars, Hough starred as Ren in the 2006 original cast production of Footloose: The Musical at the Novelo Theatre in London's West End, as well as on the 2006 U.K. national tour. Hough's West End performance earned him a nomination as The Stuart Phillips London Newcomer of the Year in the Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Choice Awards. Hough made his Broadway debut on January 8, 2010, starring with Kym Johnson and Mary Murphy in Burn the Floor for the final four performances of the show's Broadway run. A founding member of the Ballas Hough Band (formerly Almost Amy), Hough shares lead vocals, plays guitar and has several songwriting credits on the band's self-titled debut CD, released by Hollywood Records in March 2009.

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Dianne de Leeuw
Dianne Margaret de Leeuw (born 19 November 1955) is a Dutch figure skater. She is the 1975 World champion, the 1976 European champion, and the 1976 Olympic silver medalist.
De Leeuw was born in Orange, California, USA. Her mother is Dutch and her father had dual US/Dutch citizenship. Dianne de Leeuw skated for the Netherlands, despite having been born and having spent most of her youth in the U.S.
She was voted the female athlete of the Netherlands in 1975 by winning the World Ice Skating Championship. She was known for her classic skating style and beautiful pantyhosed legs. She was also flag carrier at the 1976 Winter Olympic Games for the Netherlands.
Following her retirement from skating, she became a coach. She has coached at the Westminster Ice Palace in Westminster, California. She married her former coach Doug Chapman and they coach skating together.

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Dmitri Palamarchuk
Dmitri Palamarchuk (born December 17, 1979 in Dnipropetrovsk) is a Ukrainian figure skating coach and retired pair skater. With former partner Julia Obertas, he is a two-time World Junior champion (1998, 1999) and two-time Junior Grand Prix Final champion.
At the 2000 World Championships, Obertas and Palamarchuk were 10th after the short program but during the free skate Palamarchuk caught an edge (right skate) while executing an overhead lift with Obertas – she was uninjured in the resulting fall but he hit his head on the ice. Palamarchuk lay on the ice for several minutes before getting up and leaving the ice on his own but then lost consciousness and was taken to hospital – no damage was found but he was kept overnight for observation. Their partnership dissolved after that. Palamarchuk went on to skate with Tatiana Chuvaeva and Alexandra Tetenko before retiring from competition.

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Dmitri Sukhanov
Dmitri Sukhanov is a former Russian and Soviet pair skater. With former partner Evgenia Chernyshova, he is the 1989 World Junior champion and 1988 World Junior silver medalist. He later competed with Oksana Kazakova for Russia. In 1995, Sukhanov moved to England and in 1996 he turned professional with his partner and wife Fiona Zaldua; they continue to perform as adagio pair skaters worldwide.
(with Oksana Kazakova)
(with Evgenia Chernyshova)

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Dmitry Saveliev
Dmitry Saveliev is a former Russian pair skater. He won the 1993 World Junior Figure Skating Championships with partner Inga Korshunova.

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Donna Atwood
Donna Atwood (February 14, 1923 – December 20, 2010) was an American figure skater. She competed in pair skating and won the gold medal at the 1941 United States Figure Skating Championships with partner Eugene Turner. In 1949, she married John H. Harris, the first owner of the Ice Capades, with whom she had two children. She skated professionally with the Ice Capades for 16 years, retiring from the role of lead skater in 1956.
Atwood died, aged 85, at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital on December 20, 2010.
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Dorothy Hamill
Dorothy Stuart Hamill (born July 26, 1956) is an American figure skater. She is the 1976 Olympic champion in Ladies' Singles and 1976 World Champion.
Hamill was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Chalmers and Carol Hamill. Shortly after her birth, her family moved to the Riverside neighborhood of Greenwich, Connecticut, where Hamill subsequently spent the rest of her childhood. She has a brother and a sister.
Hamill first started skating in early 1965 at the age of 8, taking once-a-week group lessons. She became more serious about the sport the next season, taking regular private lessons and passing her preliminary and first figure test before the seasonal rink closed in March. She was first trained by Otto Gold and Gustave Lussi. Ice time was limited in her area, so she eventually began training at Sky Rink in New York City, staying overnight in the city with friends when possible. In the summers she trained in Lake Placid, New York and later in Toronto with her coach of the time, Sonya Dunfield.

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Drew Meekins
Drew Meekins (born April 10, 1985) is an American pairs skater. With former partner Julia Vlassov, he is the 2006 World Junior Champion.
Drew Meekins was born in Juneau, Alaska to Edward Russell "Russ" Meekins, Jr. and Nancy Harvey. His father, aunt and grandfather all served in the Alaska House of Representatives as Democrats representing Anchorage, and as such traveled to Juneau (Alaska's capital) for legislative sessions. His father, the only one of the three to serve more than one term, played a key role in his final term during the 12th Alaska State Legislature (1981-1983) in two events which rank amongst the most significant in the history of the Alaska Legislature: the mid-session overthrow of the Democratic House leadership and its replacement with a multi-party coalition; and the bribery conviction and subsequent expulsion of a member of the Alaska Senate. Russ Meekins, Jr. retired from elected office following that term, but remained in Juneau and worked as a lobbyist. The family moved from Alaska to Massachusetts ca. 1990. His brother, Cam Meekins, is a rapper. He also has an older half-brother named Rodney.

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Ekaterina Gordeeva
Ekaterina "Katia" Alexandrovna Gordeeva (Russian: Екатерина Александровна Гордеева) (born May 28, 1971) is a Russian (former Soviet) figure skater. Together with her late partner and husband Sergei Grinkov, she was the 1988 and 1994 Olympic Champion and four-time World Champion in pair skating. After her husband's death, she continued performing as a singles skater.
Often called "Katia", Gordeeva was born in Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia) to Alexander Alexeyevich Gordeev and Elena Levovna Gordeeva. She has a younger sister, Maria Alexandrovna Gordeeva (born 1975), who lives in Moscow. Gordeeva began skating at the age of four, in skates many sizes too big, wearing multiple pairs of socks because skates small enough for her feet were unavailable in the Soviet Union.
Gordeeva began figure skating at age four, when she entered Children and Youth Sports School of CSKA Moscow. She was not a particularly strong jumper, and in August 1981, coach Vladimir Zaharov paired the 10-year-old Gordeeva with the 14-year-old Sergei Grinkov. At one point, however, a coach insisted that Gordeeva pair with someone else, because Sergei frequently missed practice. She refused. Instead, the pair changed coaches.

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Elaine Zayak
Elaine Kathryn Zayak (born April 4, 1965) is an American figure skater. She is the 1981 U.S. national champion and the 1982 World Champion. She is a 1984 Winter Olympian.
Zayak was born and raised in Paramus, New Jersey. where she attended Paramus High School.
At age two, Zayak lost part of her left foot in a lawn mower accident. On the advice of her doctors, she began figure skating as physical therapy. Her left boot is stabilized with a wood mold to compensate for the irregularity in the shape of her left foot.
An excellent student, she was awarded the Dial Award for the national high-school scholar-athlete of the year in 1982.
She is married and the mother of a son, Jack.
Zayak was coached jointly by Peter Burrows and Marylynn Gelderman throughout her amateur and professional career.
In 1980, Zayak was part of the first trip to China by American skaters.
Zayak was the first woman to consistently land many triple jumps in her programs. At the 1982 World Championships, she landed 6 triple jumps to win the title, but 4 of them were triple toe loop jumps. While she also had triple salchow and loop jumps in her repertoire, they were less consistent. Zayak was not the only skater of her time who repeated the same jump multiple times to add technical content to her programs, nor was she the worst offender; Yugoslavia's Sanda Dubravčić, for example, often incorporated solely multiple triple toe loops and double axels in her 4-minute free programs, perhaps to cover up her deficiencies in other jumps. Still, Zayak's skating contributed to the creation of what became informally known as the “Zayak Rule,” enacted at the 1982 ISU Congress, which states that a skater may not perform the same kind of triple jump more than twice, and for it to be given full credit on both occasions, one of the two triples must be incorporated into a combination or sequence. The rule encouraged skaters to display a greater variety of skills.

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Elena Ivanova
Elena Ivanova is a Russian former figure skater. She was the 1996 World Junior Champion. Elena Ivanova started skating at the age of 6, when figure skating coach Nina Ruchkina visited her kindergarten in search for talanted youth. She noticed Elena. Her parents approved skating, and Ivanova started to train under Nina Ruchkina. At the age of 10 she became Master of Sports of the USSR and gained a nickname "Iron Felix" because of her calmness on the ice. At the age of 15 she moved from Nevinnomyssk to Samara and graduated from Samara's GUOR (figure skating faculty). Elena Ivanova had to retire from skating due to injury and switched to coaching. Since 2000 she is working in Vitebsk, Belarus.

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Elena Leonova
Elena Leonova (Russian: Елена Леонова) is a former Soviet pair skater. She is a two-time (1986, 1987) World Junior champion with partner Gennadi Krasnitski. After ending her ISU competitive career, she toured with a show produced by Tatiana Tarasova and teamed up with Andrei Khvalko. They competed at the World Professional Championships and won it twice, in 1999 and 2000. They are married with two daughters.
Pairs with Gennadi Krasnitski

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Elena Riabchuk
Elena Riabchuk (born July 27, 1985) is a Russian pairs figure skater. She won the 2002 World Junior Figure Skating Championships with partner Stanislav Zakarov.

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Emmitt Smith
Emmitt James Smith, III (born May 15, 1969) is a retired American football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for fifteen seasons during the 1990s and 2000s. Smith played college football for the University of Florida, where he was an All-American. A first-round pick in the 1990 NFL Draft, he played professionally for the Dallas Cowboys and Arizona Cardinals of the NFL.
During his long professional career, he became the NFL's all-time rushing leader, breaking the record formerly held by Walter Payton, and played for three Super Bowl-winning Dallas Cowboys teams. Smith is the only running back to ever win a Super Bowl championship, the NFL Most Valuable Player award, the NFL rushing crown, and the Super Bowl Most Valuable Player award all in the same season (1993). He is also one of only four running backs to lead the NFL in rushing three or more consecutive seasons, joining Steve Van Buren, Jim Brown and Earl Campbell. Smith led the league in rushing and won the Super Bowl in the same year three times (1992, 1993, and 1995) when to that point it had never been done. Smith is also one of only two non-kickers in NFL history to score more than 1,000 career points (the other being Jerry Rice). Smith was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2010, and is the first player from the 1990 NFL Draft to be inducted.

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Eugene Turner
Eugene Turner (November 26, 1920 – January 14, 2010) was an American champion figure skater who competed in single skating, pair skating and ice dancing, and coached professionally. He was born in Los Angeles, California.
Turner won the mens singles title at the 1940 and 1941 United States Figure Skating Championships. Also in 1941, he became the first skater to medal in three disciplines at one U.S. Championship, adding the pairs title with Donna Atwood and the silver medal in ice dancing with Elizabeth Kennedy. Hailing from the Los Angeles Figure Skating Club, he was the first skater from west of the Mississippi River to win a U.S. senior title.
Turner did not appear in the Winter Olympics or World Championships which were subject to international cancellation from 1940 to 1946 due to World War II and post-war rebuilding. During the war, Turner served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Forces, piloting a single seat P-47 Thunderbolt for 69 missions over Germany and occupied France. After the war, he became a coach and skated professionally.

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Evgenia Chernisheva
Evgenia "Genia" Chernyshova, sometimes spelled Chernisheva, is a former Soviet pair skater. With partner Dmitri Sukhanov, she is the 1989 World Junior champion and 1988 World Junior silver medalist.
She is the coach of 2010 and 2011 U.S. novice champion, Nathan Chen.
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Gabriele Seyfert
Gabriele ("Gaby") Seyfert (born 23 November 1948 in Chemnitz) is a retired German figure skater. She is a two-time world champion (1969, 1970), and the 1968 Olympic silver medalist.
Seyfert skated for the club SC Karl-Marx-Stadt and was representing the GDR (East-Germany). Her coach was her mother Jutta Müller. She was a long-time rival of Peggy Fleming, but was not able to defeat her.
Seyfert was one of the first world famous sport-stars of East Germany. In 1966, after two silver medals at the Europeans and the Worlds, she was voted as “The GDR female athlete of the year”. During 1968 she became the first woman to land a clean triple Loop.
In 1970, she ended her figure skating career surprisingly. Her daughter Sheila was born in 1972. Unlike Peggy Fleming, she could not skate professionally; offers made by Holiday on Ice were refused by East German authorities.
Seyfert turned to coaching, and worked with the Anett Pötzsch in the early 1970s. Due to the East German coach hierarchy, Pötzsch was transferred to the group of Jutta Müller, and Seyfert ended her coaching career. She then studied languages at university and worked as a professional translator. From 1985 to 1991, she led the ice ballet at the Friedrichstadtpalast in East Berlin, where she also skated occasionally. After the ice ballet was closed, she worked at a service industry business in Berlin. She lives in Berlin-Karow.

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Garrett Lucash
Garrett Lucash (born September 21, 1978 in Attleboro, MA) is an American pair skater. With partner Katie Orscher, he is the 2005 U.S. national champion and 2005 Four Continents bronze medalist.
Lucash was searching for a new partner when he remembered Orscher and gave her a call. Unlike most skaters, they both rotate clockwise. They trained in Simsbury, Connecticut.
In 2005, Orscher and Lucash won the gold medal at the U.S. Championships. They went on to win the bronze medal at the 2005 Four Continents Championships. At the 2005 Worlds, their placement combined with that of Rena Inoue / John Baldwin earned the United States two entries to the 2006 Winter Olympics.
In the summer of 2005, Orscher broke her foot, causing them to lose training time before the 2005-06 season. In January 2006 at the U.S Championships in St. Louis, Missouri, they were in first after the short program but dropped to third after the long program and missed the Olympic team by .66 points.
Orscher and Lucash announced their retirement from competitive skating in April 2006. Lucash is the co-creator and director of the National Figure Skating Academy in Boston, along with Dmitri Palamarchuk.

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Gennadi Krasnitski
Gennadi Krasnitski is a former Soviet pair skater. He is a two-time (1986, 1987) World Junior champion with partner Elena Leonova. He coached Estonian pairs team Viktoria Shklover & Valdis Mintals. He currently works as a coach at the Ice House in Hackensack, New Jersey.
Pairs with Elena Leonova

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Gillian Wachsman
Gillian Margaret Wachsman (born September 19, 1966 in Riverside, Connecticut) was an American pair skater. After competing with partner Robert Daw for several years, she teamed with Todd Waggoner. She and Waggoner won the gold medal at the 1986 United States Figure Skating Championships. They finished fifth at the 1988 Winter Olympic Games and came in fourth at the World Figure Skating Championships that year.
(pairs with Todd Waggoner)
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Gretchen Merrill
Gretchen Merrill (born November 2, 1925 in Boston, Massachusetts - died April 22, 1965 in Windsor, Connecticut) was an American figure skater. Gretchen was a six-time (1943–1948) U.S. national champion and thrice placed second in 1941, 1942 and 1949. She was the 1947 European silver medalist and World bronze medalist, winning those medals in the first World and Europeans Championships to be held since 1939. She was the second and last American woman to win a medal at the European Championships; following 1948, the competition was restricted to skaters representing European countries. Merrill placed 8th at the 1948 Winter Olympics.
She was inducted into the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2000.

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Gundi Busch
Gundula ("Gundi") Busch (born April 29, 1935 in Milano, Italy) is a German figure skater and coach. She was the first World champion ladies' singles champion representing Germany.
Busch is a daughter of a German businessman. The family moved from Milano from Harlem, Netherlands to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany. She began skating at age four and a half years. She took ballet classes in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and was regularly coached in London. Her coach was Thea Frenssen.
In 1954 Gundi Busch became World champion. She finished her amateur skating career and took an offer of the ice revue Hollywood Ice Revue. In 1955 she married a Swedish professional ice hockey player Lill-Lulle Johansson. They moved with their son Peter Lulle Johansson to Stockholm, Sweden. Busch later worked there during many years as a figure skating coach, but retired from coaching in 1997.

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Han Cong
Han Cong (simplified Chinese: 韩聪; traditional Chinese: 韓聰; pinyin: Hán Cōng; born August 6, 1992 in Harbin, Heilongjiang) is a Chinese pair skater. With partner Sui Wenjing, he is the 2012 Four Continents champion, three time ( 2010, 2011, 2012 ) World Junior champion, the 2009 Junior Grand Prix Final champion and the 2010 Chinese national champion. Sui and Han have landed throw quadruple Salchows and quadruple twists in competition.
Sui/Han teamed up in 2007 without having previous pair skating experience. They both were inspired by 2010 Olympic Champions Shen Xue & Hongbo Zhao and started skating after watching them competing in the 2002 Winter Olympics.
They made their international debut in the 2009–2010 ISU Junior Grand Prix, where they placed 1st at their events. In the ISU Junior Grand Prix Final they placed 1st. They won the Chinese Figure Skating Championships and earned a trip to the 2010 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, where they placed 1st. They became the second Chinese pair winning the World Junior Figure Skating Championships after Zhang Dan & Zhang Hao who won the title in 2001 and 2003.

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Helio Castroneves
Hélio Castroneves (born Hélio Castro Neves; May 10, 1975 in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil) is a Brazilian auto racing driver currently competing in the North American IndyCar Series. In IndyCar competition, Castroneves has 14 wins and 28 poles, and has never placed lower than sixth in the standings in a complete season of racing till 2011, where he placed eleventh. Prior to IndyCar, Castroneves competed in the CART championship with a highest championship points finish of fourth.
Castroneves won the Indianapolis 500 in 2001, 2002 and 2009, making him one of only nine drivers to date to have won at least three. He finished second to teammate and countryman Gil de Ferran in 2003. Castroneves has won four pole positions for the Indy 500, including back-to-back poles in 2009 and 2010 for the first time since Scott Brayton.
Starting his career in karting, Castroneves later raced in the Paul Stewart Racing team, and finished third in the 1995 British Formula Three Championship. [1]
After being occasionally misidentified by U.S. media as "Helio Neves" he at first changed the spelling to Helio Castro-Neves and then to the current spelling. He has one sister, Katiucia. Castroneves was first recognized while driving for Steve Horne's Tasman Racing team in Indy Lights, interestingly as teammate to fellow Brazilian and future IndyCar champion Tony Kanaan.

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Herma Szabo

Herma Szabo (February 22, 1902 - May 7, 1986) was an Austrian singles and pairs figure skater. She is the 1924 Olympic champion in ladies' singles and a seven-time World Champion, including five titles in singles (1922-1926) and two titles in pairs partnered with Ludwig Wrede.
Szabo was born in Vienna, where she came from a family of figure skaters. Her mother was Christa von Szabo, a two time world medalist in pairs figure skating and her uncle was Eduard Engelmann Jr., a three time European Champion in men's figure skating, who built the first artificial ice rink. As a result, Szabo was exposed to the sport at a young age, where she practiced at her uncle's ice rink along with her cousins Helene Engelmann and Christine Engelmann, who went on to marry Karl Schäfer.
She competed as a figure skater under different surnames, which include von Szabó, Plank-Szabo, Planck-Szabo, Jarosz-Szabo and Jaross-Szabo. The International Skating Union uses the surname Szabo to refer to her accomplishments. Szabo won the gold medal at the 1924 Winter Olympics in ladies figure skating. At the Olympics, she helped modernize ladies's figure skating by wearing a skirt cut above the knee. High-cut skirts allowed for more freedom of movement in the legs. Despite this, Sonja Henie is usually credited with being the first to wear short skirts in competition.

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Hélio Castroneves
Hélio Castroneves (born Hélio Castro Neves; May 10, 1975 in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil) is a Brazilian auto racing driver currently competing in the North American IndyCar Series. In IndyCar competition, Castroneves has 14 wins and 28 poles, and has never placed lower than sixth in the standings in a complete season of racing till 2011, where he placed eleventh. Prior to IndyCar, Castroneves competed in the CART championship with a highest championship points finish of fourth.
Castroneves won the Indianapolis 500 in 2001, 2002 and 2009, making him one of only nine drivers to date to have won at least three. He finished second to teammate and countryman Gil de Ferran in 2003. Castroneves has won four pole positions for the Indy 500, including back-to-back poles in 2009 and 2010 for the first time since Scott Brayton.
Starting his career in karting, Castroneves later raced in the Paul Stewart Racing team, and finished third in the 1995 British Formula Three Championship. [1]
After being occasionally misidentified by U.S. media as "Helio Neves" he at first changed the spelling to Helio Castro-Neves and then to the current spelling. He has one sister, Katiucia. Castroneves was first recognized while driving for Steve Horne's Tasman Racing team in Indy Lights, interestingly as teammate to fellow Brazilian and future IndyCar champion Tony Kanaan.

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Inga Korshunova
Inga Korshunova is a former Russian pairs figure skater. She won the 1993 World Junior Figure Skating Championships with partner Dmitry Saveliev.In 1994 she was honored as Master of Sport of Russia by the Figure Skating Federation (Russia).
In 1996 she was the Silver Medalist on the National Championship in Sports Aerobics among the pairs.^{[citation needed]}

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Ingo Steuer
Ingo Steuer (born 1 November 1966 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, Saxony, GDR/East Germany) is a German pair skater and skating coach.
With partner Mandy Wötzel, he is the 1998 Olympic bronze medalist, the 1997 World champion, the 1995 European champion, and a four-time German national champion. As a coach, he has led Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy of Germany to multiple world and European titles.
Steuer was born in Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz), Saxony, and began to skate as a little child. His pair skating coach was Monika Scheibe. He skated for the club SC Karl-Marx-Stadt, which was renamed to SC Chemnitz after German reunification. Having been born in East Germany, he first represented East Germany and after 1990 the combined Germany.
In pair skating, Steuer first teamed up with Manuela Landgraf. They were the first Germans to win the World Junior Championships, doing so in 1984. After his split with Landgraf, he skated with Ines Müller for several years. Their best results were 7th places at the Europeans. Müller quit after the 1990–1991 season.

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Jacqueline du Bief
Jacqueline du Bief (born 4 December 1930 in Paris) is a French figure skater who competed in single skating and pair skating. As a single skater, she is the 1952 World Champion, the 1952 Olympic bronze medalist, the 1950-1952 European silver medalist, and the 1947-1952 French national champion.
As a pair skater, she competed with Tony Font. They are the 1950 & 1951 French national champions.
After turning professional, she toured with several shows like Ice Capades, Hollywood Ice Revues, Scala Eisrevue from 1952 to 1964.
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Jane Vaughn
Jane Vaughn (married: Sullivan) (born c. 1922) was an American figure skater. She won the United States Figure Skating Championships in 1940 and 1941.
She was inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall Of Fame in 1996. She was the older sister of Arthur Vaughn Jr..

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Janet Lynn
Janet Lynn Nowicki (born April 6, 1953 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American figure skater and Olympic bronze medalist.
Lynn began to skate almost as soon as she could walk and took part in her first exhibition performance at the age of four in a group number at Chicago Stadium. By age seven, she was living away from home part of the year, staying with the slightly older skater Kathleen Kranich to be close to her coach Slavka Kohout, who worked out of Rockton, Illinois, but her close-knit family was never far away. Eventually her family moved from the Chicago suburb of Evergreen Park to Rockford, Illinois, some fifteen miles from Rockton and the rink. Janet would attend Junior High in Rockford. She used her middle name Lynn instead of Nowicki, which was constantly being misspelled and mispronounced. Janet was always forthright about the name change; in her own mind her name was still Nowicki.
In 1964, at 11, she became the youngest skater to pass the rigorous eighth and final test administered by the United States Figure Skating Association, and two years later she won the U.S. Junior Ladies Championship at Berkeley, California. At that competition she landed a triple salchow jump, which at the time was rarely performed by female skaters, giving early evidence of a jumping ability that was to thrill audiences and impress judges for years to come. In later years she was also one of the first female skaters to include a triple toe loop in her programs.

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Janina Wirth
Janina Wirth (born 1966) is a former East-German figure skater.
She represented the club SC Dynamo Berlin. Her coach was Inge Wischnewski. Janina Wirth became in 1982 World Junior Champion in figure skating.

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Jason Dungjen
Jason Dungjen (born September 28, 1967) is an American retired pair skater who was a two-time U.S. national champion. He is currently a skating coach.
Dungjen competed first with his sister Susan Dungjen, with whom he won a silver medal at the 1984 World Junior Championships. After that, he competed with Kyoko Ina. They were the 1997 and US National champions. They placed 4th at the 1998 Winter Olympics but withdrew from the 1998 World Championships after an accident during a practice session – while practicising a triple twist, Ina's arm hit Dungjen's forehead, fracturing the browbone above his right eye. Their partnership dissolved after the 1997-1998 season and he retired from competition.
Dungjen married Yuka Sato in 1999. They skated together on the Stars on Ice tour.
Dungjen is currently a coach at the Detroit Skating Club in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. In collaboration with his wife, he is the coach of Alissa Czisny and Jeremy Abbott. In June 2011, he began coaching Adam Rippon. Dungjen is also an ISU Technical Specialist for the United States.

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Jean-Pierre Brunet
Jean-Pierre Brunet (1927 – 1946) was a French-American figure skater. Born in France, he was the son of Olympic champion pair skaters Pierre Brunet and Andrée Joly Brunet. Jean-Pierre also competed in pairs with Donna J. Pospisil, and the pair won the title at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships twice. At age 19, his career and life were cut short when he died in an auto accident.
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Jeanne Chevalier
Jeanne Chevalier was a Canadian figure skater who competed in both single skating and pair skating. Her pairs partner was Norman M. Scott. As a single skater, she is the 1920 and 1921 Canadian champion. She and Scott won the 1914 Canadian pairs title. Chevalier was part of the four teams that won the Canadian fours championships in 1910, 1920 and 1921.
She also competed in the United States and won the first United States Figure Skating Championships in pairs.
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Jeannette Altwegg
Jeannette Altwegg CBE (married name: Wirz; born 8 September 1930 in Mumbai, India) is a British figure skater. She is the 1952 Olympic champion in ladies' singles, the 1948 Olympic bronze medalist, the 1951 World champion, and the 1951 & 1952 European champion.
Altwegg was born in Mumbai, India and raised in Lancashire, the daughter of a British mother and Swiss father.
Altwegg was a competitive tennis player, reaching the junior finals at Wimbledon in 1947 before giving up the sport to focus on skating. She was known for her strong compulsory figures.
Her win at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo was the first individual gold medal won by a British woman in the Winter Olympics. Her achievement as a British female individual Winter Olympics gold medalist was not matched until the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver when Amy Williams won gold in Skeleton. She remains the only British woman to have won two individual medals (gold and bronze) at the Winter Olympics.
After her Olympic victory, Altwegg bypassed a lucrative professional career due to a knee injury. She went to work in Pestalozzi Children's Village in Switzerland and married Marc Wirz, the brother of Swiss skater Susi Wirz. They had four children and divorced in 1973. Their daughter Christina Wirz was a member of the Swiss 1983 World champion and European bronze medalist curling team.

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Jenni Meno
Jenni Meno is an American pair skater. She first partnered with Scott Wendland and won two medals at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. She began skating with her future husband Todd Sand in April 1992. They competed in two Olympics and won three national titles and three medals at the World Figure Skating Championships.
Meno and Sand became engaged the day of their short program at the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. They were married July 22, 1995.
Following their amateur career, the pair skated professionally in the Stars on Ice tour for six seasons.
Meno and Sand had their first son, Jack, in 2004, and their second son, Matthew Kenneth Sand, on August 14, 2006. Meno also appeared in the 2006 FOX television program "Skating with Celebrities". She and Sand coached John Baldwin and Rena Inoue. They currently coach Mary Beth Marley / Rockne Brubaker and Jessica Calalang / Zach Sidhu.
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Jennifer Kirk
Jennifer Anne "Jenny" Kirk (born August 15, 1984) was an American competitive figure skater. She is the 2000 World Junior Champion and the 2002 Four Continents Champion. She is now retired from the sport.
Jennifer Kirk was born in Newton, Massachusetts. Prior to skating, she was a gymnast until the age of nine. She also studied ballet and once performed with the Boston Ballet. Kirk grew interested in skating and began training with coaches Evy and Mary Scotvold at the age of 10, at the Skating Club of Boston.
Kirk won gold at the 2000 World Junior Championships. In 2002, she captured the Four Continents title. After failing to make the U.S. Olympics Team in 2002, she moved to the Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo, California to train with Frank Carroll and Ken Congemi. In addition to single skating, she also briefly dabbled in pair skating with Fedor Andreev in the summer of 2003, describing it as fun but challenging.
Kirk won the bronze medal at the 2004 Nationals. She also won bronze at the 2005 Four Continents.

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Jessica Mills
Jessica Mills is a former American figure skater. She won the World Junior Figure Skating Championships in 1989. She is the sister of Olympic gymnast Phoebe Mills.

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Jill Sawyer
Jill Sawyer is a former American figure skater. She won the World Junior Figure Skating Championships in 1978.

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Jill Trenary
Jill Ann Trenary (born August 1, 1968) is an American figure skater. She was a 3-time U.S. champion and won the World Figure Skating Championships in 1990.
Trenary was originally from Minnetonka, Minnesota. At the age of 16, she relocated to Colorado Springs, Colorado to train with noted coach Carlo Fassi. She won the U.S. junior title in 1985 and placed 5th in her first senior championships in 1986.
At the U.S. championships in 1987, Trenary upset reigning world champion Debi Thomas to take her first senior national title. She went on to place 7th in her first World Championships.
In 1988, Thomas regained the U.S. title, with Trenary finishing second. Trenary placed 4th at the 1988 Winter Olympics and 5th at the 1988 World Championships.
Trenary again won the U.S. Championships in 1989, although she was defeated by Kristi Yamaguchi in the free skating. She owed her placement to strong compulsory figures. At the following World Championships, Trenary was in a position to win the title, but instead a nervous free skate left her in 3rd place.

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Jill Watson
Jill Watson (born March 29, 1963) is an American retired pair skater and coach. With her partner Peter Oppegard, she is the 1988 Olympic bronze medalist and a three-time U.S. national champion.
Watson was initially paired with Burt Lancon, with whom she won two national bronze medals in 1983 and 1984. She began competing with Oppegard in 1985. In their career, Watson and Oppegard won three national titles, a world bronze medal, an Olympic bronze medal, and various other medals. During Watson and Oppegard's free skate at the 1988 Olympics, a photographer dropped his camera bag onto the ice and an usher walked onto the ice to pick it up while the pair was performing a death spiral on the other side of the rink.
She is now a coach at the Desert Schools Coyotes Center in the United States. [2] She coached Rena Inoue/John Baldwin for five seasons. [3]
Jill Watson and Peter Oppegard were inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2004.
(pairs with Peter Oppegard)
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Joan Tozzer
Joan Tozzer Cave (born September 19, 1921 in Boston, Massachusetts; died April 15, 201] in Dedham, Massachusetts) was an American figure skater who competed in single skating and pair skating. Her pairs partner was Bernard Fox. She won the United States Figure Skating Championships in both singles and pairs in 1938, 1939, and 1940. Tozzer was the U.S. novice national champion in 1934 and the junior national champion in 1937.
Her father was anthropologist Alfred Tozzer. She was inducted into the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1997.

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Johnny Johns
Johnny Johns is an American retired competitive figure skater who currently works as a coach. As a pair skater, he competed with Melissa Militano and won the 1974 and 1975 United States Figure Skating Championships. They placed 8th at the 1974 World Figure Skating Championships and 6th in 1975. With partner Mary Campbell, he is the 1973 National Champion in ice dancing. Their highest placement at the World Championships was 6th, in 1973.
Johns, who is from the Detroit area, began skating at the age of 8 as a family activity. For some years he was splitting his time between skating and Little League Baseball, where he had developed the ability to pitch both left- and right-handed. Johns carried this ambidextrousness over to his skating and learned how to do jumps in both directions as well. He also early developed a very smooth stroking style.
When his former coach left the Detroit area, Johns began to work with Ronald Ludington, who insisted that he give up on baseball and concentrate of skating year-round. Ludington was responsible for pairing him up first with Mary Karen Campbell in dance, and then with Laurie Johnson in pairs.

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JoJo Starbuck

JoJo Starbuck (born Alicia Starbuck, February 14, 1951 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American figure skater. With partner Kenneth Shelley, she is a three-time United States pair skating champion (1970–1972) and two-time Olympian (1968 and 1972).
Starbuck was from Downey, California. She was first paired with Shelley 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.
Like Shelley, Starbuck was also a skilled singles skater. While Shelley went on to win the national title in singles as well as pairs in 1972, Starbuck retired from singles competition in 1968. After turning professional, Starbuck made occasional appearances skating singles in addition to continuing to skate pairs with Shelley. She also partnered John Curry in the "Tango Tango" number from his show Ice Dancing.

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Josée France
Josée France is a former Canadian pair skater. She won the 1977 World Junior Figure Skating Championships with partner Paul Mills.

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Julia Obertas
Julia Nikolayevna Obertas (Russian: Юлия Николаевна Обертас); married name: Horak; (born 19 June 1984 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) is a Russian-Ukrainian pair skater. She originally competed for her native Ukraine and began representing Russia in 2000. She is best known for her partnership with Sergei Slavnov, with whom she competed from 2003 to 2007. They are the 2005 European silver medalists. Previously, she competed with Alexei Sokolov for Russia and Dmitri Palamarchuk for Ukraine.
Obertas began skating at age 5. She initially competed with Dmitri Palamarchuk representing Ukraine. They won the 1998 and 1999 World Junior Championships. They also won the 1997 and 1998 Junior Grand Prix Final. They then began competing on the senior level. At the 2000 World Championships, Obertas and Palamarchuk were 10th after the short program but during the free skate Palamarchuk caught an edge (right skate) while executing an overhead lift with Obertas – she was uninjured in the resulting fall but he hit his head on the ice. Palamarchuk lay on the ice for several minutes before getting up and leaving the ice on his own but then lost consciousness and was taken to hospital – no damage was found but he was kept overnight for observation. The pair ended their partnership shortly afterward. Obertas moved to Russia as her mother had remarried and the family decided to settle in Saint Petersburg.

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Julia Soldatova
Julia Nikolayevna Soldatova (Russian: Юлия Николаевна Солдатова, born 17 May 1981 in Moscow) is a Russian figure skater who has competed for both Russia and Belarus. She represented Belarus at the 2002 Winter Olympics. She is the 1998 World Junior Champion, the 1999 World bronze medalist, the 1999 European silver medalist, and the 1997 Junior Grand Prix Final champion.
Soldatova began skating at the age of four. She won the 1998 World Junior title. In 2000, Soldatova finished fourth at the Russian nationals, and therefore was not selected to compete at the 2000 World Championships. She then made arrangements with Belarus and began competing for Belarus internationally. In 2004, Soldatova returned briefly to compete for Russia.
Soldatova has progressed into a coaching career. One of her best student is Daniela Asanova, a competitor at the Russian novice junior nationals 2010.
Soldatova studied at the Institute for Physical Culture.

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Julia Vlassov
Julia Vlassov (born August 29, 1990 in Saint Petersburg, Russia) is an American pair skater. She and former partner Drew Meekins are the 2006 World Junior Champions.
Vlassov is the daughter of Alexander Vlassov, the 1977 World silver medalist and European bronze medalist in pairs. The family moved to the United States in 1994.
Vlassov started skating at the age of 5. She competed as a single skater on the Juvenile and Intermediate levels before switching to pairs skating. She teamed up with Drew Meekins in 2002.
Following a successful junior career that was highlighted by medaling in every event they entered including Junior Grand Prix's, Junior Grand Prix Final, and the US National Championships, Vlassov and Meekins made their senior Grand Prix debut in the 2006-2007 season at 2006 Cup of China and 2006 NHK Trophy. They were assigned to two Grand Prix events for the 2007-2008 season; however, they were forced to withdraw from the 2007 Skate Canada International before the event began due to an injury to Meekins's shoulder which occurred during an attempted lift in practice. Vlassov and Meekins announced the end of their partnership on November 8, 2007.

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Kanako Murakami
Kanako Murakami (村上佳菜子, Murakami Kanako^?, born November 7, 1994 in Naka-ku, Nagoya) is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2010–2011 Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, 2010 World Junior Champion, 2009/2010 Junior Grand Prix Final champion, the 2010 Japanese junior national champion, and the 2009 Japanese junior bronze medalist.
In the 2005–2006 season, Murakami competed at the 2005–2006 Japan Novice Championships in the Novice B category, which is the lower of the novice levels. She won the silver medal. This silver medal earned her a trip to compete in the spring competition, the Gardena Spring Trophy, which she won on the novice level.
In the 2006–2007 season, Murakami competed at the 2006–2007 Japan Novice Championships in the Novice A category and placed 7th.
In the 2007–2008 season, Murakami comepted at the 2007–2008 Japan Novice Championships in the Novice A category and placed 5th.
Murakami debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix. She won the bronze medal at her first event in Madrid, Spain. At her second event, in Sheffield, England, she won the competition. She was the 4th qualifier for the 2008-2009 ISU Junior Grand Prix Final.

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Karen Magnussen
Karen Diane Magnussen, OC (born April 4, 1952 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian figure skater. She is the 1972 Olympic silver medalist and 1973 World Champion.
Magnussen was Canada’s Female Athlete of the Year in 1971 and 1972, and in 1973 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Magnussen's career at the elite level of skating began when she won the Canadian national junior title in 1965, at the age of 13. Moving up to the senior level the next year, she became known for her strong free skating ability, and was even compared to Petra Burka, then the reigning world champion. Her march upwards in the rankings continued as she qualified to compete at the World Championships for the first time in 1967 and won her first Canadian title in 1968.
Magnussen had a tough season in 1969, first losing her Canadian title to Linda Carbonetto. Then, a few weeks later, she was diagnosed with stress fractures in both legs and was forced to withdraw from the World Championships. Using a wheelchair for weeks, Magnussen considered retiring from the sport. She eventually made the decision to continue. She won the Canadian Championships four more times, from 1970 to 1973. At the World Championships, she won a bronze medal in 1971 and then silver in 1972.

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Karin Hendschke
Karin Hendschke (married Raddatz) is a former East-German figure skater. She is the 1984 World Junior Champion. During her competitive career, she represented the club TSC Berlin.
Karin Hendschke studied sport at the DHfK Leipzig. She works now as a coach at her home club TSC Berlin and is also an ISU technical specialist.

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Karol Kennedy
Karol Estelle Kennedy Kucher (February 14, 1932 in Shelton, Washington - June 25, 2004 in Seattle, Washington) was an American pair skater. With her brother, Peter, she won five U.S. Championship titles from 1948-1952. Known as "The Kennedy Kids," they won the World Championship in 1950, and the silver medal in the 1952 Winter Olympics.
(all with Peter)
Note: Peter Kennedy is has also been credited as Michael Kennedy

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Katarina Witt
Katarina Witt (born 3 December 1965) is a German figure skater and model. In Germany she was commonly called "Kati" in the past, but today her full name is used more often.
She won two Olympic gold medals for East Germany, first in the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics and the second in 1988 at the Calgary Olympics. She won the World Championships four times (in 1984, 1985, 1987 and 1988), and six consecutive European Championships (1983–1988). She won silver medals at both the 1982 and 1986 World Figure Skating Championships. Her competitive record makes her one of the most successful figure skaters of all time.
Witt was born in Staaken in East Germany, just outside of West Berlin, which is today part of Berlin. Her mother worked in a hospital as a physiotherapist and her father was a farmer. She went to school in Karl-Marx-Stadt (which today has reverted to its pre-war name of Chemnitz). There she attended Kinder- und Jugendsportschule, a special school for athletically talented children. She represented the club SC Karl-Marx-Stadt for the GDR (East Germany). Jutta Müller began coaching her in 1977. Witt trained six days a week, sometimes for seven hours a day with three hours spent on compulsory figures.

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Katie Orscher
Kathryn "Katie" Orscher (born June 18, 1984) is an American figure skater who competed as a single skater and pair skater. With partner Garrett Lucash, she is the 2005 U.S. national champion and 2005 Four Continents bronze medalist.
Katie Orscher was born in Farmington, Connecticut and raised in Glastonbury, Connecticut.
Orscher was originally a single skater. She won the junior bronze medal at the 2000 U.S. Championships. She retired from singles in November 2000 to compete in pairs.
From 2000 through 2006, she competed with partner Garrett Lucash. Lucash remembered her during his search for a partner and gave her a call. They both rotate clockwise. They trained in Simsbury, Connecticut.
In 2005, Orscher and Lucash won the gold medal at the U.S. Championships. They went on to win the bronze medal at the 2005 Four Continents Championships. At the 2005 Worlds, their placement combined with that of Rena Inoue / John Baldwin earned the United States two entries to the 2006 Winter Olympics.
In the summer of 2005, Orscher broke her foot, causing them to lose training time before the 2005-06 season. In January 2006 at the U.S Championships in St. Louis, Missouri, they were in first after the short program but dropped to third after the long program and missed the Olympic team by .66 points.

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Keauna McLaughlin
Keauna Inaba McLaughlin (born September 25, 1992) is an American pair skater. With former partner Rockne Brubaker, she is the 2008 & 2009 U.S. National Champion, the 2010 Four Continents silver medalist, and the 2007 World Junior Champion.
Keauna McLaughlin was born in Tarzana, California. She moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado to train and attends Cheyenne Mountain High School. Her name is based on a Hawaiian word for "feminine wind running through the forest".
Her mother, Lei Ina, was a senior-level pair skater and skated professionally as a show skater with Disney on Ice. Her father left the family when she was a toddler.
McLaughlin began skating at the age of four. She originally competed in single skating. As a singles skater, she is the 2006 U.S. Juvenile silver medalist. She began pair skating at age 10 and focused entirely on pair skating when she teamed up with Brubaker.
With partner Ethan Burgess, McLaughlin won two consecutive medals at the U.S. Championships: the bronze medal at the novice level at the 2004 U.S. Championships and the pewter medal at the junior level at the 2005 U.S. Championships. Her partner was too old for the Junior Grand Prix circuit so they split and she skated on her own for a while.

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Kelly Osbourne
Kelly Michelle Lee Osbourne (born 27 October 1984) is an English media personality, television personality, host, fashion designer, singer and actress, best known for being the daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne. She was thrust into the limelight after appearing on the reality series The Osbournes with her family, for which they won a 2002 Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality Programme. She has also appeared on Dancing with the Stars, in which she and professional dance partner Louis van Amstel took third place, and has made forays into music, acting, theatre, writing, columnist and broadcast presenting.
Osbourne was born in Westminster, London. She has an elder sister, Aimee, and a younger brother, Jack. She has two half-siblings: Jessica Hobbs and Louis John Osbourne from Ozzy's first marriage. She had an unofficially "adopted" brother, Robert Marcato, whom Sharon and Ozzy took in after Marcato's mother died. Kelly grew up travelling with her father as he went on tour, and lived in more than 20 homes between the UK and the US.

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Kenneth Shelley
Kenneth Shelley 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.

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Kim Yu-Na
Kim Yuna (Hangul: 김연아, Hanja: 金姸兒, IPA: [kimjʌna]; born September 5, 1990) is a South Korean figure skater.
She is the 2010 Olympic champion in Ladies' Singles, the 2009 World champion, the 2009 Four Continents champion, a three-time (2006–2007, 2007–2008, 2009–2010) Grand Prix Final champion, the 2006 World Junior champion, the 2005–2006 Junior Grand Prix Final champion, and a four-time (2002–2005) South Korean national champion.
Kim is the first South Korean figure skater to win a medal at an ISU Junior or Senior Grand Prix event, ISU Championship, and the Olympic Games. She is the first female skater to win the Olympic Games, the World Championships, the Four Continents Championships and the Grand Prix Final. She is one of the most highly recognized athletes and media figures in South Korea.
She is the current record holder for ladies in the short program, the free skating and the combined total under the ISU Judging System. She is also the first female skater to surpass the 150-point free skating mark and the 200-point total mark under the ISU Judging System. She has never been placed off the podium in her entire career.

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Kitty Carruthers
Caitlin A. "Kitty" Carruthers (born May 30, 1961 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American figure skater. She competed in pairs with her brother Peter Carruthers. They are the 1981-1984 U.S. national champions, the 1982 World bronze medalists, and the 1984 Olympic silver medalists. Following the 1984 Winter Olympics Kitty and Peter starred with "Ice Capades" and "Stars on Ice" for twelve years. The Carrutherses appeared throughout the world in many productions and made for television specials during their 12 year career as professionals. Kitty was married June 16, 1990 to Brett Conrad in Houston, Texas. Today Kitty resides in the Houston area with husband and their four children BJ, Kyle, Kayla and Brooke. Kitty coaches aspiring young figure skaters in the Houston area as well as spending her spare time contributing to many different charitable organizations
In 1996, they were inducted into the Adoption Hall of Fame. In 1999, they were inducted into the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame.

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Kristi Yamaguchi
Kristine Tsuya "Kristi" Yamaguchi (born July 12, 1971) is an American figure skater. She is the 1992 Olympic Champion in ladies' singles. Yamaguchi also won two World Figure Skating Championships in 1991 and 1992 and a U.S. Figure Skating Championships in 1992. She won one junior world title in 1988 and two national titles in 1989 and 1990 as a pairs skater with Rudy Galindo. In December 2005, she was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame. Yamaguchi was a local commentator on figure skating for San Francisco TV station KNTV (NBC 11) during the 2006 Winter Olympics. In 2008, Yamaguchi became the celebrity champion in the sixth season of Dancing with the Stars.
Yamaguchi was born in Hayward, California, to Jim Yamaguchi, a dentist, and Carole (née Doi), a medical secretary. Yamaguchi is Yonsei (fourth-generation Nikkei). Her paternal grandparents and maternal great-grandparents immigrated to the United States from Japan, originating from the Wakayama Prefecture and the Saga Prefecture. Yamaguchi's grandparents were sent to an internment camp during World War II, where her mother was born.

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Kristina Oblasova
Kristina Oblasova (Russian: Кристина Обласова, born 11 September 1984 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union) is a Russian figure skater. She is the 2001 World Junior Champion and the 2004 Russian bronze medalist.

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Ksenia Krasilnikova
Ksenia Vasilyevna Krasilnikova (Russian: Ксения Васильевна Красильникова, born June 18, 1991 in Krasnoyarsk, Russia) is a Russian pair skater. With Konstantin Bezmaternikh, she is the 2008 World Junior champion.
The pair was coached by Valeri Tiukov and Valentina Tiukova in poor conditions in Perm. Although they placed second on the day, they were later awarded the 2007-2008 Junior Grand Prix Final title following the retroactive disqualification of Vera Bazarova & Yuri Larionov due to a positive doping sample from Larionov. She struggled with a back injury during the 2009-10 season and decided to retire from competitive skating.
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Kumiko Koiwai
Kumiko Koiwai (小岩井久美子, Koiwai Kumiko^?, born June 27, 1975 in Ōbu, Japan) is a former figure skater from Japan. She won the World Junior Figure Skating Championships in 1993. Coached by Machiko Yamada, who had trained Midori Ito, Koiwai was routinely landing the triple axel jump by 1994. However, she faced several chronic injuries on her right foot, which severely impeded her efforts. This prompted her to drift away from the world of skating after the 1995 season.
Like Ito, she graduated from Tokai Women's College near their hometown, Nagoya. Koiwai now works as a programming director for Tokai Television in Japan.

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Kyoko Ina
Kyoko Ina (伊奈恭子, Ina Kyōko^?, born October 11, 1972) is a Japanese-American figure skater. With partner John Zimmerman, she is the 2002 World bronze medalist and a three-time (2000–2002) U.S. national champion. The pair also competed at the 2002 Olympics. With previous partner Jason Dungjen, Ina was a two-time (1997 & 1998) U.S. Champion and competed at the 1994 and 1998 Olympics.
Ina was born in Tokyo, Japan, but raised in New York. She started skating at the age of 4, at the rink at Rockefeller Center. Ina skated singles and pairs for Japan in the Junior ranks, but eventually decided to compete solely for the United States.
Her first American partnership was with Jason Dungjen from 1991 to 1998, under the coaching of Peter Burrows and Marylynn Gelderman in Monsey, New York. They placed 4th at the 1998 Winter Olympics but withdrew from the 1998 World Championships after an accident during a practice session – while practicising a triple twist, Ina's arm hit Dungjen's forehead, fracturing the browbone above his right eye. Their partnership ended following that season.

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Laetitia Hubert
Laetitia Hubert (born 23 June 1974 in Paris, France) is a French figure skater. She won the French national ladies' singles title two times, and competed in four Winter Olympic Games (1992, 1994, 1998, and 2002). She is a contemporary of French teammate Surya Bonaly.
Hubert began skating at three years old. She finished 21st at her World Championship debut in 1990. The next year, she had a rough collision with gold medal favorite Midori Ito of Japan during the short program warmup.
Hubert's improvement showed during the next season (1991-1992), where she won the World Junior title and later placed 2nd (to Surya Bonaly) in the French National Championships. This 2nd place finish earned her a trip to the 1992 Albertville Olympics. At this time she was working on her triple lutz jump, but elected to do a safer triple loop jump during her Olympic short program instead. This easier performance was executed cleanly, unexpectedly putting her in 5th place after the short program. Unfortunately, her nerves were very high under the Olympic pressure. She was the last skater of the evening during the long program. She skated a disastrous performance, dropping her to 12th place overall.

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Larisa Selezneva
Larisa Yurievna Selezneva (Russian: Лариса Юрьевна Селезнёва; born September 12, 1963 in Leningrad) is a former Russian pair skater who represented the Soviet Union. With partner Oleg Makarov, she is the 1984 Olympic bronze medalist, 1985 World silver medalist, 1988 World bronze medalist, and two-time European champion (1987, 1989). They were coached by Igor Moskvin.
Selezneva trained at Zenit in Leningrad. With Makarov, she won the World Junior Championships in 1980 and 1981. They then rapidly progressed in the senior ranks. In 1984, they won the bronze medal at the Sarajevo Olympics, which was the first major international competition for the pair. Selezneva, along with Makarov, was awarded the Medal for Distinguished Labor (1984).
Armed with strong pairs skills and difficult side-by-side triple jumps, they won the silver medal at the 1985 World Championships in Tokyo, almost defeating the then-reigning World and Olympic champion team, Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev, also from the Soviet Union. Makarov broke his knee before the 1988 Winter Olympics and competed at the event with his knee in a cast and four pain-killing shots. They finished fourth at the event and won the bronze medal at the 1988 World Championships. They also won two European titles, in 1987 and 1989. They retired from competition in 1990.

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Laurence Owen
Laurence Rochon "Laurie" Owen ( /lɔrˈɔːns/; May 9, 1944 – February 15, 1961) was a Hall of Fame American figure skater. She was the 1961 U.S. National Champion and represented the United States at the 1960 Winter Olympics, where she placed 6th. She was the daughter of Maribel Vinson and Guy Owen and the sister of Maribel Owen. Laurence Owen died, along with her mother and sister, in the crash of Sabena Flight 548 en route to the 1961 World Figure Skating Championships.
Laurence Owen was born in Oakland and for the first eight years grew up in Berkeley, California. She was the second child of Guy Owen and Maribel Vinson and the younger sister of Maribel Owen. In 1952, shortly after the death of her father, her mother moved back to her girlhood home at 195 High Street in Winchester, Massachusetts with Laurie and her sister Maribel. Laurie went to Winchester Junior High School and then attended Winchester High School where she was an honor student and participated in several sports.
In 1956, Laurie won the Eastern Junior Ladies title and was unable to participate in the United States Championships that year because of a broken wrist. In 1958, she placed 3rd in the United States Figure Skating Championship Junior Ladies Division. In 1959, Laurie won the United States Figure Skating Championship Junior Ladies Division.

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Lily Kronberger
Lily Kronberger (12 November 1890 – 21 May 1974), also spelled Lili Kronberger, was a Hungarian figure skater competitive during the early years of modern figure skating. She was Hungary’s first World Champion.
Kronberger was born in Budapest in 1890.
Kronberger won a World bronze medal in 1906, at the first official World Championships to include a ladies' event.
She won bronze again in 1907, and four gold medals from 1908 to 1911.
She was the first athlete to win a world championship gold for Hungary.
In 1911, Kronberger became the first skater to use musical accompaniment during her entire free program. She did this at the suggestion of Zoltán Kodály.
She died in Budapest in 1974, at the age of 83.
Kronberger, who was Jewish, was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1983.
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She was inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1997.
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Linda Fratianne
Linda Sue Fratianne (born August 2, 1960 in Los Angeles-Northridge, California, U.S.) is a former American Olympic figure skater who won four consecutive U.S. Championships (1977–1980).
Linda Fratianne's father was the former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Fratianne, who died in 2002. Her mother was Virginia Fratianne. Her parents were divorced.
Throughout her figure skating career, she was coached by Frank Carroll.
Fratianne was particularly known for her ability to complete difficult triple jumps with ease and beauty. She became the first female skater to land two different types of triple jumps (toe loop and salchow) in her free skating programs in 1976 at the U.S. National Championships. Her strong free skating technique complemented her elegant style, which made her the best overall American skater of the period.
At the World Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo, Japan in 1977, she won her first world title by upsetting the favorite going into the Championship: East Germany's Anett Pötzsch. This victory was attributed to the combination of solid jumping skills, strong basic skating skills, and exceptional artistry. In fact, Fratianne fell on her triple salchow jump in her free skating routine, but these positive qualities were significant enough to prompt the judges to place her above Pötzsch.

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Lubov Iliushechkina
Lubov Ivanovna Iliushechkina (Russian: Любовь Ивановна Илюшечкина, born November 5, 1991 in Moscow, Russia) is a Russian pair skater. With former partner Nodari Maisuradze, she is the 2010 Skate Canada Champion, 2009 World Junior Champion, 2008 World Junior silver medalist, and 2009 Russian bronze medalist.
Iliushechkina began skating at the age of four or five in Moscow. Her coach, Lubov Fedoshchenko, suggested she try pair skating and took her to Saint Petersburg to train under Natalia Pavlova in 2006. Pavlova was initially skeptical of her and Maisuradze, and thought Iliushechkina was overweight. However, having no other teams at the time, Pavlova agreed to pair them together, and grew impressed by their commitment. In September of that year, Pavlova moved to Moscow and the pair followed her.
During the 2007–2008 season, Iliushechkina and Maisuradze took silver at the 2008 Junior Worlds and placed 4th at the senior Russian Nationals.
During the 2008–2009 season, they won the World Junior title, along with gold at the Junior Grand Prix Final. They also competed at the senior level, winning the bronze at Russian Nationals and placing 5th at their first European Championships. They earned a berth to 2009 Worlds but were forced to withdraw due to an injury to Maisuradze. He injured ligaments in his hand in a skiing accident. They were replaced by Ksenia Ozerova and Alexander Enbert.

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Magda Julin
Magda Julin born Mauroy, (July 24, 1894 in France - December 21, 1990 in Stockholm, Sweden) was a Swedish figure skater and 1920 Olympic champion in the ladies' singles event.
Julin was a daughter of the French music producer Edouard Mauroy. The family moved to Sweden when Julin was 7 years old. She only participated once in World Championships and came in at 6th place. She was 3 months pregnant when she competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics. She also won the Swedish championships three times and twice at the Nordic Championships.
Magda Julin had two sons and spent her last years of life in an old age pensionare home in Stockholm.
At the age of 90 Magda Julin could still be seen skating at the public open air ice rink in Kungsträdgården in central Stockholm. She was invited to participate in an inauguration of an ice rink in Östersund/Sweden in autumn 1990.

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Manuela Landgraf
Manuela Landgraf is a former East German pair skater. She won the 1984 World Junior Figure Skating Championships with partner Ingo Steuer.
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Mao Asada
Mao Asada (浅田真央, Asada Mao^?, born September 25, 1990) is a Japanese figure skater.
She is the 2010 Winter Olympic silver medalist, a two-time (2008 & 2010) World champion, a two-time (2008 & 2010) Four Continents champion, a two-time (2005–2006 & 2008–2009) Grand Prix Final champion, the 2005 World Junior champion, the 2004–2005 Junior Grand Prix Final champion and a five-time (2006–2009, 2011) Japanese national champion.
At the 2010 Winter Olympics, she became the first woman to land three triple axel jumps in the same competition.
Mao Asada was born in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. She was named after the Japanese actress Mao Daichi. She attended Nagoya International School until the middle of 1st grade. After transferring, she graduated from Takabari Elementary School and Takabaridai Junior High. She received her high school diploma from Chukyo High School on March 15, 2009. After that, she enrolled in Chukyo University.
Her sister Mai Asada (two years older) is also a figure skater and finished 6th at the 2006 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships. She is now skating in shows.

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Marat Akbarov
Marat Akbarov is a former Soviet pair skater. With partner Veronika Pershina, he was the 1985 European bronze medalist and 1979 World Junior champion. He married fellow pair skater Marina Pestova. Together, they have a daughter, Angela.
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Maria Butyrskaya
Maria Viktorovna Butyrskaya (Russian: Мария Викторовна Бутырская) (born 28 June 1972 in Moscow) is a Russian figure skater. She is the 1999 World champion in ladies' singles, becoming the oldest woman and the first Russian woman to win the title. She is a three-time European champion and in 2002, at age 29, became the oldest woman to win that title. She is a six-time Russian national champion. She placed fourth at the 1998 Winter Olympics and sixth at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
As a child, Butyrskaya was coached by Irina Nifontova for eight years. After she decided to retire, Butyrskaya had a couple of coaches, one of whom told her she had no talent, and then contacted Vladimir Korolov. He improved her compulsory figures but they were then dropped from competitions. After Korolov moved to Greece, Butyrskaya was coached by Viktor Kudriavtsev for several years until he told her that she was strong technically but he could not help her mentally. Her coach then became Elena Tchaikovskaya.
Butyrskaya originally competed for the Soviet Union. After its dissolution, she began representing Russia.

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Maria Mukhortova
Maria Vladimirovna Mukhortova (Russian: Мария Владимировна Мухортова, born November 20, 1985) is a Russian pair skater. With former partner Maxim Trankov, she is the 2008 European silver medalist, a five-time Grand Prix medalist (including one gold medal at Trophée Eric Bompard), 2005 World Junior champion, 2004 Junior Grand Prix Final champion, and 2007 Russian national champion. In her early career, she competed with Egor Golovkin and Pavel Lebedev. She also competed one season with Jérôme Blanchard.
Mukhortova was born in Saint Petersburg but began skating in her father's hometown of Lipetsk when she was 6 years old. She became attracted to pair skating, however, there were no related opportunities in Lipetsk so her mother took her back to Saint Petersburg when she was thirteen.
Mukhortova and Maxim Trankov trained in the same practice group under coaches Ludmila Velikova and Nikolai Velikov, but with different partners. Mukhortova first competed with Pavel Lebedev during the 2001-2002 and the 2002-2003 season, skating with him on the ISU Junior Grand Prix and finishing fourth at the 2002 and 2003 World Junior Championships. The pair had frequent arguments but due to good results, Mukhortova initially declined to switch partners, however, a year later in 2003, she accepted Trankov's suggestion to skate together.

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Maribel Owen
Maribel Yerxa Owen (April 25, 1940 – February 15, 1961) was an American pair skater. With partner Dudley Richards, she was the 1961 U.S. national champion and represented the United States at the 1960 Winter Olympics, where they placed 10th. She was the daughter of Maribel Vinson and Guy Owen and the sister of Laurence Owen. Maribel Owen died, along with her mother and sister, in the crash of Sabena Flight 548 en route to the 1961 World Figure Skating Championships.
Maribel Yerxa Owen was born in Boston, Massachusetts and was the first child born to Maribel Vinson and Guy Owen. She was named after her mother, and was known as "Maribel, Jr." or "Mara". Her younger sister Laurence was also a champion skater, and they were both coached by their mother.
Owen began to skate at the age of 2 years and 9 months. At the time the Owen family was living in Berkeley, California and Maribel competed in singles competition representing the St. Moritz Ice Skating Club. When the Owens moved to the Boston area, she formed a pair team with Charles Foster (later president of the United States Figure Skating Association). In 1956, when she age 15, she and Foster became the U.S. junior national champions. When Foster retired from competition to attend medical school, she teamed with Dudley Richards.

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Maribel Vinson
Maribel Yerxa Vinson-Owen (October 12, 1911 – February 15, 1961) was an American figure skater and coach. She competed in the disciplines of ladies singles and pair skating. As a single skater, she was a nine-time U.S. national champion and the 1932 Olympic bronze medalist. As a pair skater, she won six national titles, two with Thornton Coolidge and four with George Hill. She is a member of the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame and a three time inductee in the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame as a singles skater. pairs skater and a coach.
She was married to Guy Owen and was the mother of Laurence Owen and Maribel Owen. Vinson-Owen is tied with Michelle Kwan for the record in US ladies figure skating titles.
Maribel Vinson was the daughter of Thomas and Gertrude Vinson of Winchester, Massachusetts. Both of her parents were figure skaters and Maribel was made an honorary member of the Cambridge Skating club at birth. She began to take lessons with Willie Frick at the Boston Arena at the age of 9. She won the U.S. junior ladies title at the age of 12.

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Marina Avstriskaia
Marina Aleksandrovna Avstriskaia (Russian: Марина Александровна Австрийская, born June 21, 1967 in Moscow) is a Russian pair skater who competed for the Soviet Union. She won the World Junior Figure Skating Championships with partner Yuri Kvashnin in 1982 and 1983. They competed at the 1984 Winter Olympic Games, where they placed ninth.
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Mario (entertainer)
Mario Dewar Barrett (born August 27, 1986), who performs under the mononym Mario, is an American R&B singer-songwriter, actor, dancer and model. He is best known for his hit singles "Just a Friend 2002" (2002) and "Let Me Love You" (2004), which won him two Billboard awards, as well as for appearing in the films Step Up and Freedom Writers. He has released four studio albums: Mario in 2002, Turning Point in 2004, Go! in 2007, and D.N.A. in 2009. In the end of 2000's decade, Mario was ranked by Billboard #98 on their "Artist of the Decade" list.
Mario grew up in Decatur,Alabama and other working-class neighbourhoods in Baltimore County, Maryland. He lived with his grandmother, who raised him while his single mother struggled with a drug addiction. Mario said at the age of four that he wanted to become a singer. His mother supported his dream and bought him a karaoke machine. Mario joined a musical group in Teaneck high school with the oldest son of comedienne Mo'nique and best friend Jaye Brebnor and also his younger god sister Chea Tyler. He was always dedicated to having a musical career. He learned to play the piano and used that skill as the basis for his melodies and songs. He was discovered at age eleven and signed by producer Troy Patterson, after singing "I'll Make Love to You" at a Coppin State College talent show. Mario attended Milford Mill Academy up until the tenth grade where he was inspired by his music teacher, during his early teen years, and was offered a record deal at the age of fourteen, signing with Clive Davis' J Records. His musical influences include Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, Nat King Cole, Brian McKnight, Boyz II Men, Usher, and Joe. His first introduction to the music industry was the Dr. Dolittle 2 movie soundtrack in 2001. He sang a captivating performance of the Stevie Wonder classic "You and I" at Clive's Grammy party in 2002, and began recording an album.

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Mark Ballas
Mark Alexander Ballas Jr. (born May 24, 1986) is an American dancer.
Ballas is a professional ballroom dancer on the ABC program Dancing with the Stars. He began competing on the show in the fall of 2007. He was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Choreography in 2011. He is also a singer/songwriter/musician and released his first solo CD HurtLoveBox in March 2011.
Ballas was born in Houston, Texas, the son of dancers Corky Ballas and Shirley Ballas (née Rich). His paternal grandparents were of Mexican, Spanish, and Greek background, and his mother is British.^{[citation needed]} His paternal grandfather, George Ballas, was the inventor of the Weed Eater lawn-trimming device.
Ballas attended Rosemead Preparatory school in South London, and was in the same year as acclaimed British ballet dancer Max Westwell of the English National Ballet.
At the age of 11, he earned a full time slot at the Academy, as well as earning a full scholarship to the college. In 2005, he was awarded "Performer of the Year". He then moved on to win championships at The British Open to the World, The US Open to the World and The International Open to the World. With his former partner Julianne Hough, he won the Junior Latin American Dance Championship and the gold medal at the Junior Olympics.^{[disambiguation needed ]}^{[citation needed]}

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Maxim Trankov
Maxim Leonidovich Trankov (Russian: Максим Леонидович Траньков, born October 7, 1983) is a Russian pair skater. With current partner Tatiana Volosozhar, he is the 2012 European Champion, a two-time (2011 and 2012) World silver medalist, the 2011 Grand Prix Final silver medalist, and the 2011 Russian national champion. They are also gold medalists at 2011 Skate Canada and 2011 Trophee Eric Bompard.
With former partner Maria Mukhortova, he was the 2008 European silver medalist, the 2007 Russian National Champion, and the 2005 World Junior Champion.
Maxim Trankov was born in Perm. His mother was an athlete, competing in running and 400 meter hurdles, and his father was involved in equestrian sports. His father taught him to ride a horse. Trankov is a fan of Russian hip-hop and writes music himself. He has an elder brother, Alexei.
Trankov first stepped onto the ice in the fall of 1987 in Perm; his parents wanted him involved in a sport. He left skating for a while but returned and joined the husband-and-wife coaches Valeri Tiukov and Valentina Tiukova. Trankov was growing quite tall and a coach suggested he take up pair skating when he was 11. He recalled, "I said no at first because I was afraid to grab the hand of a girl, but I tried it and then I liked it."

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Megan Taylor
Megan Devenish Taylor (later Mandeville, later Ellis, 25 October 1920 – 23 July 1993) was a British figure skater competitive in the 1930s. She won the World Championships in 1938 and 1939.
She was born in Rochdale and died in Jamaica. Taylor's father was Phil Taylor, a speed skater.
Megan and fellow Brit Cecilia Colledge participated in the 1932 Winter Olympics. They were virtually the same age—Colledge was 11 years and 68 days old, and Taylor was 11 years and 102 days. They are the youngest ever female competitors in any Olympic sport and the youngest ever competitors at the Winter Olympics. Taylor finished seventh, with Colledge following in eighth in the singles competition. Sonja Henie, the dominant figure in women's figure skating at the time, won her second Olympic gold medal here.
Taylor finished second behind Henie at the World Championships in 1934 and 1936. After Henie retired in 1936, Taylor and Colledge competed for prominence. Colledge won the Worlds in 1937, while Taylor won in 1938 and 1939. Taylor placed second behind Colledge three times at the European Championships (1937, 1938, and 1939).

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Melanie Brown
Melanie Janine Brown (born May 29, 1975) is a British R&B and pop recording artist, songwriter, dancer, actress, author, television presenter and model. Born and raised in Harehills, Leeds, United Kindgom. Brown rose to fame when she became a member of British girl group, the Spice Girls, which she was famously known as "Scary Spice" in the group. Brown has been signed to a number of record labels during her career including Virgin Records, Independent record label, Amber Café and her latest record deal EMI Music, which she signed in 2012.
The Spice Girls signed to Virgin Records and released their debut single, "Wannabe", which hit number-one in more than 30 countries and helped establish the group as a "global phenomenon". Followed by their debut album, Spice, which sold more than 28 million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling album by a female group in music history. They have sold over 75 million records worldwide, making them the biggest selling female group in history. The band's second debut album, Spiceworld went onto sell over 20 million records world wide.Forever selling 5 million records world wide. They have sold over 75 million records worldwide, making them the biggest selling female group in history and also one of the Best selling music artists in the world. Brown is also known for supporting Girl Power and their global grosses estimated at $500–800 million between 1996 and 1998.Return of the Spice Girls was the band's comeback turn and said to have grossed US$100 million and won the Billboard 2008 Touring Award.

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Melissa Militano
Melissa Mary Militano (married name: Warkmeister; born April 26, 1955 in Rockville Centre, New York) is an American figure skater who competed as a single skater and pair skater. As a pair skater, she won the U.S. Figure Skating Championships three times, in 1973 with her brother Mark Militano and in 1974 and 1975 with Johnny Johns. Their coaches included Peter Dunfield and Ron Ludington.
Melissa and Mark Militano represented the United States at the 1972 Winter Olympics where they placed 7th .
Militano was also a talented singles skater. At the 1970 United States Figure Skating Championships, she became one of the first female skaters to successfully perform a triple toe loop jump in competition, in a performance that won her the bronze medal in the junior ladies division. At the 1971 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, she won the junior ladies title, again landing a clean triple toe loop. She later gave up competing in singles skating to focus on pairs.
Militano and Johns retired from competitive skating in 1975 and toured with Ice Capades. After her marriage in 1979, she had little involvement with skating for many years, but currently works as a part-time coach in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Michelle Kwan
Michelle Wingshan Kwan (born July 7, 1980) is an American figure skater. She is a two-time (1998 and 2002) Olympic medalist, a five-time (1996, 1998, 2000, 2001 and 2003) World champion (a record bettered only by Sonja Henie among ladies skaters) and a nine-time (1996, 1998–2005) U.S. champion (the all-time record, as tied with Maribel Vinson-Owen).
She competed at a high level for over a decade and is the most decorated figure skater in U.S. history. Known for her consistency and expressive artistry on ice, she is widely considered one of the greatest figure skaters of all time.
For well over a decade, Kwan maintained her status not only as America's most popular figure skater but as one of America's most popular female athletes, consistently making the top ten on many such polls and lists (often as the only figure skater) even years after she had stopped competing. During the decade of her reign Kwan enjoyed unprecedented popularity and amassed numerous multi-million dollar endorsement deals, starred in multiple TV specials and was the subject of extensive media coverage.

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Mirai Nagasu
Mirai Aileen Nagasu (Japanese: 長洲未来) (born April 16, 1993) is an American figure skater. She is the 2008 U.S. national champion, 2010 U.S. silver medalist, 2011 Four Continents bronze medalist, and 2007–2008 Junior Grand Prix Final champion.
In 2008, Nagasu became the youngest woman since Tara Lipinski in 1997 to win the U.S. senior ladies title, and the second youngest in history. She is the first lady since Joan Tozzer in 1937 and 1938 to win the junior and senior national titles in consecutive years.
Nagasu represented the United States at the 2010 Winter Olympics at the age of 16 and placed 4th in the ladies event.
Nagasu was born in Montebello, Los Angeles County, California and raised in Arcadia, California. Nagasu's parents own Restaurant Kiyosuzu, a Japanese sushi restaurant in Arcadia. They are immigrants from Japan in the general sense of the word, but are not U.S. citizens. Their daughter has dual citizenship of the United States and Japan and must choose one before her 22nd birthday because Japan does not allow dual citizenship for adults 22 or older. Nagasu speaks a mixture of Japanese and English at home with her parents. Her mother, Ikuko, was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in the fall of 2009. Mirai (未来) means "future" in Japanese, while her last name is written as 長洲 in kanji.

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Monica Seles
Monica Seles (Serbian: Моника Селеш, Monika Seleš, Hungarian: Szeles Mónika, pronounced [sɛlɛʃ], born December 2, 1973) is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player and a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. She was born and raised in Novi Sad, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia, to Hungarian parents. She became a naturalized United States citizen in 1994 and also received Hungarian citizenship in June 2007. She won nine Grand Slam singles titles, winning eight of them while a citizen of Yugoslavia and one while a citizen of the United States.
She became the youngest-ever champion at the 1990 French Open at the age of 16. She was the world no. 1 player in the women's game during 1991 and 1992, but in 1993 she was forced out of the sport for more than two years following an on-court attack in which a man stabbed her in the back with a 9-inch-long knife. She enjoyed some success after returning to the tour in 1995, including a Grand Slam singles title at the 1996 Australian Open, but was unable consistently to reproduce her best form. She played her last professional match at the 2003 French Open, but her official retirement announcement was not issued until February 2008.

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Nancy Kerrigan
Nancy Ann Kerrigan (born October 13, 1969) is a two-time American Olympic figure skating medalist and 1993 U.S. champion.
Kerrigan was born in Woburn, Massachusetts to Daniel Kerrigan and Brenda M. (Schultz) Kerrigan. She began ice skating at age six at the local rink in her hometown of Stoneham, Massachusetts. Her two older brothers, Michael and Mark, played hockey, but hockey was not considered an appropriate activity for girls at that time so she took up figure skating instead. She did not start private lessons until age eight, and won her first figure skating medal at age nine.
The Kerrigan family was of modest means. Kerrigan's father, a welder, sometimes worked three jobs to fund her skating career, and also drove the ice resurfacer at the local rink in exchange for lessons.
Kerrigan was coached by Theresa Martin until she was 16, then after a brief period with Denise Morrissey began working with Evy and Mary Scotvold. They remained her coaches through the rest of her competitive career.

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Nancy Ludington
Nancy Irene Rouillard (married names: Ludington, Graham, born July 25, 1939) is an American pair skater.
She was born in Stoneham, Massachusetts. She has been married twice, once to pairs partner Ronald Ludington in 1957 and the second time to Frank Graham.
She began competing with Ronald Ludington in 1956 and she won her first national title under her maiden name. She changed her name professionally after she married Ludington in 1957. The Ludingtons went on to win the bronze medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics. They also won the U.S. national title between 1957 and 1960, after having been the junior national champions in 1956. They are also the 1959 World bronze medalists.
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Natalia Gorbenko
Natalia Gorbenko (russian: Наталья Горбенко) is a former Soviet figure skater. She won the World Junior Figure Skating Championships in 1986.

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Natalia Shestakova
Natalia Sergeevna Shestakova (Russian: Наталья Сергеевна Шестакова; born October 18, 1988 in Perm) is a Russian pair skater. With former partner Pavel Lebedev, she is the 2004 World Junior Champion. Previously, she competed with Maxim Trankov.
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Natasha Kuchiki
Natasha Kuchiki is an American pairs figure skater, Natasha born 1976 in Burbank, California, United States . Her parents, Denise and Sashi, were competitive figure skaters who met in the Ice Capades. Her sister Tamara was also a competitive figure skater.
Natasha born in Burbank, CA. She grew up with her parents traveling with Ice Capades till the age of five. Then once her parents Denise Kuchiki and Sashi Kuchiki retired from the ice shows in 1981, they chose Los Angeles, CA to settle down at. Natasha's parents taught her figure skating till the age of 8, then asked Wendy Halber Olson to teach Natasha singles. When Natasha asked to skate pairs, at first her parents were against it. Citing they wanted her to be a single skater. But once she showed them what she could do, they saw potential and then let her continue with the pairs. In 1986 she partnered up with Richard Alexander. Skating only 2 days a week 1 session a day, Natasha and Richard made it to the 1987 U.S. National Championships in Tacoma, WA. They competed in Junior pairs. Richard and Natasha competed in 3 U.S. National Championships placing 11th 1987, winning the Bronze medal in Junior Pairs at the U.S. Nationals in 1988, as well as a 4th place finish in Novice Ladies at the 1988 U.S. Nationals Championships in Denver, CO. Then in 1989 won the Silver Medal in Juniors at the Baltimore, MD U.S.Nationals and also competed in Junior Ladies at the Baltimore Nationals. But in March of 1989 Richard and Natasha ended their partnership.

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Nicole Bobek
Nicole Bobek (born August 23, 1977) is an American figure skater. She is the 1995 U.S. Champion and World bronze medalist.
An only child, Bobek was raised by her Czech mother, Jana, and her friend Joyce Barron. Her parents were never married and she has never met her father, nor has any desire to do so.
Bobek's fondness for skating started when she was three. She first came to national prominence by placing 2nd at the novice level of the U.S. Championships in 1989; Bobek was 11 years old. In the next few seasons, she worked her way up the competitive rankings at the national level. She was known as an athletic jumper and a charismatic performer, but an erratic competitor and undisciplined student, often arriving late to training and skipping school. Bobek placed 4th at the 1992 World Junior Championships, but the next year dropped to 16th at the same event. She made her first appearance at the senior World Championships in 1994, as an alternate (after both Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding dropped out of the event), but failed to advance out of the qualifying round.

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Nodari Maisuradze
Nodari Otarievich Maisuradze (Russian: Нодари Отариевич Маисурадзе, born February 18, 1988 in Lipetsk, Russia) is a Russian pair skater. With former partner Lubov Iliushechkina, he is the 2010 Skate Canada Champion, 2009 World Junior Champion, 2008 World Junior silver medalist, and 2009 Russian bronze medalist.
Maisuradze began skating at the age of three-and-a-half in Lipetsk. His coaches left so he moved to Saint Petersburg when he was 12. He trained as a singles skater with Alexei Urmanov for a year. In 2006, he decided to switch to pair skating. Coach Natalia Pavlova was initially skeptical of him and Iliushechkina. However, having no other teams at the time, Pavlova agreed to pair them together, and grew impressed by their commitment. In September of that year, Pavlova moved to Moscow and the pair followed her.
During the 2007–2008 season, Iliushechkina and Maisuradze took silver at the 2008 Junior Worlds and placed 4th at the senior Russian Nationals.
During the 2008–2009 season, they won the World Junior title, along with gold at the Junior Grand Prix Final. They also competed at the senior level, winning the bronze at Russian Nationals and placing 5th at their first European Championships. They earned a berth to 2009 Worlds but were forced to withdraw due to an injury to Maisuradze. He injured ligaments in his hand in a skiing accident. They were replaced by Ksenia Ozerova and Alexander Enbert.

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Norman M. Scott
Norman M. Scott was a Canadian figure skater who competed in both single skating and pair skating. His pairs partner was Jeanne Chevalier. As a single skater, he is the 1914 and 1920 Canadian champion. He and Chevalier won the 1914 Canadian pairs title. Scott was part of the four teams that won the silver medal in the Canadian fours championships in 1913.
Scott also competed in the United States and won the first United States Figure Skating Championships in both singles and pairs.
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Oksana Baiul
Oksana Serhiyivna Baiul (Ukrainian: Оксана Сергіївна Баюл; born November 16, 1977) is a Ukrainian professional figure skater. She is the 1994 Olympic champion in ladies' singles and the 1993 World champion.
Baiul was born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. Her parents divorced when she was two years old, her father disappeared from her life, and she was raised by her mother, Marina. Marina died of ovarian cancer when Oksana was 13; Oksana had already lost her maternal grandparents and believed at the time that she was an orphan and had no other relatives.
Her coach looked after her for a while, but when he emigrated to Canada, she was on her own and sleeping on a cot at her hometown ice rink. She was eventually taken in by Galina Zmievskaya, the top-ranked figure-skating coach in Odessa, sharing a small bedroom in her new mentor's crowded three-room apartment with one of the woman's own daughters. Zmievskaya's pupil and son-in-law, Olympic figure-skating champion Viktor Petrenko, helped cover Baiul's expenses.

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Paul Martini
Paul Lloyd Martini (born on November 2, 1960 in Weston, Ontario) is a Canadian pair skater. With partner Barbara Underhill, he is the 1979-1983 Canadian national champion, the 1984 World champion, and the 1978 World Junior champion. They represented Canada at the 1980 Winter Olympics, where they placed 9th, and at the 1984 Winter Olympics, where they placed 7th.
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Paul Mills
Paul Mills is a former Canadian pair skater. He won the 1977 World Junior Figure Skating Championships with partner Josée France. He won the silver medal at the 1978 Canadian Figure Skating Championships with Lea Ann Jackson. They went on to place eleventh at the World Figure Skating Championships.
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Pavel Lebedev
Pavel Andreevich Lebedev (Russian: Павел Андреевич Лебедев; born December 12, 1982 in Saint Petersburg) is a Russian pair skater. With former partner Natalia Shestakova, he is the 2004 World Junior Champion. Previously, he competed with Maria Mukhortova and Svetlana Nikolaeva.
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Peggy Fleming
Peggy Gail Fleming (born July 27, 1948) is an American figure skater. She is the 1968 Olympic Champion in Ladies' singles and a three-time World Champion (1966–1968). Fleming has been a television commentator on figure skating for over 20 years, including several Winter Olympic Games.
Fleming was born in San Jose, California, the daughter of Doris Elizabeth (née Deal) and Albert Eugene Fleming, a newspaper journalist. She began skating at age nine when her family moved to Cleveland and soon began skating in earnest on the advice of her father. In 1961, when Fleming was twelve years old, her coach William Kipp was killed in the crash of Sabena Flight 548 along with the rest of the United States figure skating team while on route to the 1961 World Figure Skating Championships. Fleming was subsequently coached by Carlo Fassi. Her unusual style led to five U.S. titles, three World titles and the gold medal in the 1968 Olympics in Grenoble, France. Her award in Grenoble was singularly important for the American athletes and the nation as a whole, for this was the only gold medal that the U.S. Olympic team won in the 1968 Winter Games. It signaled a return to American dominance in the sport of women's figure skating following the unprecedented tragedy of the 1961 plane crash.

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Penn Jillette
Penn Fraser Jillette (born March 5, 1955) is an American illusionist, comedian, musician, and best-selling author known for his work with fellow magician Teller in the team Penn & Teller, and advocacy of atheism, scientific skepticism, libertarianism and free market capitalism.
Jillette was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts. His mother, Valda R. Jillette (née Parks) (November 8, 1909 – January 1, 2000), was a secretary, and his father, Samuel H. Jillette (March 14, 1912 – February 14, 1999), worked at Greenfield's Franklin County Jail. Jillette became disenchanted with traditional illusionist acts that presented the craft as authentic magic, such as The Amazing Kreskin on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. At age eighteen, he saw a show by illusionist James Randi, and became enamored of his approach to magic that openly acknowledged deception as entertainment rather than a mysterious supernatural power. Jillette regularly acknowledges Randi as the one person on the planet he loves the most besides members of his family.

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Peter Oppegard
Peter Oppegard (born August 23, 1959) is an American retired pair skater and coach. With his partner Jill Watson, he is the 1988 Olympic bronze medalist and a three-time U.S. national champion.
Oppegard initially paired with Vicki Heasley. He began competing with Watson in 1985. In their career, Watson and Oppegard won three national titles, a world bronze medal, an Olympic bronze medal, and various other medals. During Watson and Oppegard's free skate at the 1988 Olympics, a photographer dropped his camera bag onto the ice and an usher walked onto the ice to pick it up while the pair was performing a death spiral on the other side of the rink.
Oppegard later skated with Cindy Landry for a short time.
His skaters have won 10 national singles and pairs titles. The Professional Skaters Association and US Figure Skating has named Oppegard "Choreographer of the Year" and "Coach of the Year". [1]
Jill Watson and Peter Oppegard were inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2004.
He coaches at the East West Ice Palace in southern California. He is married to Karen Kwan, sister of world champion figure skater Michelle Kwan, and they have 2 daughters, Olivia Colett Oppegard and Sophia Oppegard.

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Petra Burka
Petra Burka (born 17 November 1946) is a former world champion figure skater and now coach.
Burka was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands on 17 November 1946, the daughter of renowned figure skater Ellen Burka, and came to Canada with her parents in 1951. In 1961, she was the Junior Canadian Skating Champion and the Senior Canadian Champion between 1964–1966. In 1965 she won the World Figure Skating Championships, the first Canadian to win the event since Barbara Ann Scott in 1947. She represented Canada at the 1964 Olympics and won the bronze medal. She was also two times bronze medallist at the World Championships.
Burka is credited as being the first woman to land a triple jump, a triple salchow at the 1965 Canadian Championships.
Her other achievements were winning Canada's Outstanding Athlete of the Year in 1964 and twice winning Canada's Outstanding Female Athlete of the Year in 1964 and 1965.
Burka retired from competition after the 1966 World Figure Skating Championships and signed to tour with Holiday On Ice., though she did work for Holidays on Ice until 1969. She then took on coaching as well as being a commentator on figure skating events for CBC and CBS for Olympic, World, European and Canadian championships.

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Philip Dulebohn
Philip Dulebohn (born September 13, 1973 in Silver Spring, Maryland) is an American pair skater. He competed in pairs with partner Tiffany Scott, and the duo won the gold medal at the 2003 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. He and Scott ended their partnership in 2005, and now Dulebohn coaches Scott and her new partner, Rusty Fein.
His brother, Paul Dulebohn, was also a competitive skater.
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Pieter Kollen
Pieter Kollen (May 27, 1939 -- August 5, 2007) was an American figure skater and coach. In 1962 he won the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in pair skating with partner Dorothyann Nelson, and also placed second in the ice dance competition at the same event. They placed 8th in pairs and 7th in dance at the 1962 World Figure Skating Championships.
The following season, following Nelson's retirement from competitive skating, Kollen competed in pairs with new partner Patti Gustafson. They placed 3rd at the US Championships and 9th at Worlds. They were the first pair team to perform the throw axel, which was invented by their coach Ronald Ludington.
For many years following his own competitive career, Kollen was a coach at the Indiana/World Skating Academy in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was the inventor of the "K-Pick" -- an innovative skate blade design with the toe pick extended to the side of the blade.
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Princess Jasmine
Princess Jasmine (Arabic: لاميرة ياسمين‎) is a fictional character and the deuteragonist of the 1992 film Aladdin and its sequels, The Return of Jafar (1994) and Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996). She is voiced by Linda Larkin, with her singing voice performed by Lea Salonga in the first film and Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams, and Liz Callaway in the sequels. Jasmine is the princess of the fictional city of Agrabah and is also the sixth official Disney Princess. The character is based on Princess Badroulbadour from the One Thousand and One Nights tale of "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp". She is an official Disney Princess with an Arabic appearance.
Supervising animator Mark Henn worked on early development of the character from the animation studio at Disney-MGM Studios in Florida—in full view of theme-park guests. Henn says he saw a young park visitor with a long, flowing black mane, and was inspired by her look for Princess Jasmine. Her facial features were based on Henn's sister Beth.

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Priscilla Presley
Priscilla Presley (born Priscilla Ann Wagner; May 24, 1945) is an American actress and businesswoman. She is the ex-wife of singer Elvis Presley, and the mother of singer-songwriter Lisa Marie Presley.
Priscilla was chairwoman of the board of Elvis Presley Enterprises from 1982 to 1998, helping to turn Graceland into a multi-million dollar tourist attraction. As an actress, Priscilla is best known for co-starring with Leslie Nielsen in the three successful Naked Gun films between 1988 and 1994, and for her five-year run playing the character Jenna Wade on the television series Dallas.
Priscilla's grandfather, Albert Henry Iversen, emigrated from Egersund in Norway to the United States in the beginning of the 1900s. He married Lorraine Davis, who was of Scots-Irish and English descent. They had three children: Albert Jr. (March 1922), James Richard (March 1924) and Anna Lillian Iversen (March 1926). Later she was called, or her name was changed to, Ann. She was called Rooney (short for Annie Rooney) as a child. At the age of 19 she gave birth to Priscilla. They both still have cousins in Norway. In a letter to the City Hall of Egersund, Ann asked for information about their relatives, and wrote that Priscilla was interested in knowing about them; Priscilla's parents then visited family members in Norway in 1992.

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Rachael Flatt
Rachael Elizabeth Flatt (born July 21, 1992) is an American figure skater. She is the 2010 U.S. national champion, 2008, 2009 and 2011 national silver medalist, and 2008 World Junior Champion.
At the 2010 U.S. Championships, she was nominated to represent the United States at the 2010 Winter Olympics, and came in 7th place.
Flatt was born in Del Mar, California. She is an only child. Her father is a biochemical engineer and her mother a molecular biologist. Her grandfather competed on the national level in fencing. She is a 2010 graduate of Cheyenne Mountain High School in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Flatt attends Stanford University, class of 2015, and plans to major in chemical engineering. She currently resides in Palo Alto, California, and she trains in the Bay Area.
Flatt began skating at age four. She originally competed in both singles and pairs on the national level. As a pair skater, she won the silver medal at Nationals on the juvenile level in 2003 and the intermediate title in 2004, both with Andrew Speroff.

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Rena Inoue
Rena Inoue (井上怜奈, Inoue Rena^?, born October 17, 1976 in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan) is an American pair skater. With partner John Baldwin, she is the 2004 and 2006 U.S. National Champion. Inoue previously competed for Japan as both a single skater and pair skater. Inoue and Baldwin are the first skaters to perform a throw triple axel in competition.
Rena Inoue was born in 1976 in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan. She moved to the United States in 1996 at the urging of her father, who had been diagnosed with lung cancer. In 1998, Inoue was diagnosed with cancer. It was detected early, and after six months of chemotherapy, she was cancer-free.
Inoue graduated from Waseda University in 1999 with a degree in education.
She became a U.S. citizen in 2005.
Inoue became engaged to be married to skating partner John Baldwin in January 2008.
Rena Inoue began skating at age four. She competed in the disciplines of single skating and pair skating in Japan.
As a single skater, she is the 1994 Japanese silver medalist and 1998 bronze medalist. She represented Japan at the 1994 Winter Olympics in singles and placed 18th.

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Robert Swenning
Robert J. Swenning (born July 25, 1924 in Greenwich, Connecticut) was an American figure skater. He originally competed in ice dance, winning the gold medal at the 1945 United States Figure Skating Championships with partner Kathe Mehl Williams. He later switched to pairs skating and teamed up with Yvonne Sherman. The duo won the 1947 U.S. title, placed fourth at the 1948 Winter Olympic Games, and finished fifth at that year's World Figure Skating Championship. He lated paired with Agnes Tyson and won the bronze medal at the 1955 U.S. Championships.
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Robin Cowan
Robin Cowan is a Canadian former pair skater. With partner Sherri Baier, he won the World Junior Championships in 1976, its inaugural year, and then went on to win the Canadian national championships in 1978.
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Robin Greiner

Robert Lewis "Robin" Greiner (born August 24, 1932 in San Jose, California) was an American pair skater who competed with Carole Ormaca. The duo won the gold medal at the United States Figure Skating Championships four straight times, beginning in 1953. They also placed fourth at the World Figure Skating Championships three times and finished in fifth place at the 1956 Winter Olympic Games.
Greiner later competed with Sheila Wells, finishing second at the 1958 U.S. Championships.
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Rockne Brubaker
Rockne Lee Brubaker, II (born June 21, 1986) is an American pair skater. With former partner Keauna McLaughlin, he is a two-time (2008–2009) U.S. national champion, the 2010 Four Continents silver medalist, and the 2007 World Junior Champion. With current partner Mary Beth Marley, he is the 2012 Four Continents bronze medalist and 2012 U.S. silver medalist.
Rockne Brubaker Jr was born in St. Louis, Missouri. His younger brother Collin Brubaker is a competitive ice dancer. He was named after his father, Rockne Brubaker Sr., who had been named after Knute Rockne.
Brubaker graduated from Harry D. Jacobs High School in Algonquin, Illinois^{[citation needed]}. He is a student at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs majoring in business administration and sports marketing.
Rockne Brubaker began skating at the age of five or six. He originally competed as a single skater, reaching the level of novice. He competed as a pair skater at the same time and eventually gave up singles to focus on pairs around age 12. At 17, he left Chicago and moved to Colorado Springs to train with top pairs coach Dalilah Sappenfield.

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Rocky Marval
Rocky Marval or Marvaldi (born November 11, 1965) is an American pair skater. With partner Calla Urbanski, he is the 1992–1993 U.S. National Champion. They finished 10th at the 1992 Winter Olympics.
The pair was nicknamed "The Waitress and the Truck Driver" by the media because of the former occupations of Urbanski and Marval. They split up in the summer of 1992. They teamed up again and turned pro; in 1998, the team was third in the World Professional Championships.
Marval works at the Igloo Ice Rink in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, as the director of skating. He is married to Canadian former pair skater Isabelle Brasseur. Their daughter, Gabriella Marvaldi, is the 2012 U.S. juvenile pairs champion, with partner Kyle Hogeboom.
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Ronald Joseph
Ronald Joseph (born October 9, 1944) was an American figure skater. Alongside his skating partner, sister Vivian Joseph, Joseph took 2nd place at the Midwest Skating Championship in 1957 before winning a number of awards between 1961 and 1965, notably holding the top prize in the U.S. Junior National Champions (1961), U.S. Championship (1965) and North American Championship (1965). For a time they were awarded as bronze medalists in the 1964 Winter Olympic Games due to the disqualification of the German silver medal-winning team of Hans-Jürgen Bäumler and Marika Kilius, but after that team was reinstated in 1987, they were reinstated at 4th.
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Ronald Ludington
Ronald Ludington (born September 4, 1934) is an American figure skater and coach. He was born in Boston.
With his then-wife, Nancy Rouillard Ludington, he won the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in pair skating four times, between 1957 and 1960, after having been the junior national champions in 1956. They won bronze medals at the 1959 World Figure Skating Championships and 1960 Winter Olympics. Ludington also won the 1958 U.S. junior (silver) dance championship, partnered with Judy Ann Lamar.
Following his competitive career, Ludington took up coaching. His first pupils included Patricia and Robert Dineen, who were killed along with the rest of the U.S. team in the crash of Sabena Flight 548 on their way to the 1961 World Championships. Ludington was not on the plane because neither he nor the Dineens had the money to fund his travel expenses; it was the only World Championships between 1957 and the end of the century which he did not attend as either a competitor or a coach.
Ludington's best-known pupils include U.S. pair champions, Melissa Militano and Johny Johns, and Kitty and Peter Carruthers, the silver medalists in pair skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics. He was also the coach of ice dancers Carol Fox and Richard Dalley at those Olympic Games. Ludington also coached Stacey Smith and John Summers, three-time national champion ice dancers, and US national pair silver medalists, Gale and Joel Fuhrman, and Lee Ann Miller and Billy Fauver, and US pair bronze medalists, Cozette Cady and Jack Courtney.

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Rosalynn Sumners
Rosalynn Diane Sumners (born April 20, 1964) is an American ladies' singles figure skater. She was the World Junior champion in 1980, the U.S. National champion in 1982, 1983 and 1984, World champion in 1983, and won a silver medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics (second to Katarina Witt).
Though born in Palo Alto, California, Sumners was raised in Edmonds, Washington and learned to skate there, and considered it to be her hometown throughout her skating career. 5th Avenue in Edmonds was renamed "Rosalynn Sumners Boulevard" in 1984 after her Olympic performance.
Sumners turned professional after the 1984 Winter Olympics. She toured first with Disney on Ice, and then was one of the original cast members of the Stars on Ice tour, with which she appeared until 1999.
Sumners lent three of her world figure skating medals to an Edmonds bank for display in 1984. When she returned to pick them up, the bank had changed ownership, and no one knew where the medals had been stored. They were lost for 20 years, but discovered as unclaimed property in a safe deposit box and returned to Sumners (with a mock "awards" ceremony) by the state of Washington in 2004.

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Rosemary Beresford
Rosemary Beresford (born 1898^{[citation needed]}, date of death unknown) was an American figure skater. In 1918, she won the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.

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Rudy Galindo
Val Joe "Rudy" Galindo (born September 7, 1969 in San Jose, California) is an American figure skater who competed in both single skating and pair skating. As a single skater, he is the 1996 U.S. national champion and 1987 World Junior Champion. As a pairs skater, he competed with Kristi Yamaguchi and was the 1988 World Junior Champion and the 1989 and 1990 U.S. National Champion.
Rudy Galindo is the third child of Jess and Margaret Galindo, having a brother, George, who was ten years older and sister, Laura, five years older. He began skating with his sister. Although the sport was expensive, his parents were supportive and forewent a chance to buy a house, settling instead for a larger trailer.
As a singles career, Galindo won the 1987 World Junior title.
Galindo was paired with Kristi Yamaguchi by his coach, Jim Hulick. They placed 5th on the junior level at the 1985 U.S. Championships and won the junior title in 1986. Hulick died of AIDS-related cancer in 1989. Galindo did not compete in singles in the 1988-89 and 1989-90 seasons in order to concentrate on pairs. Galindo and Yamaguchi won the 1988 World Junior title and the U.S. senior championships in 1989 and 1990. However, in April 1990, their partnership came to an end when Yamaguchi decided to focus on her singles career. As there was no one of her caliber available, Galindo returned to singles competition.

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Sarah Hughes
Sarah Elizabeth Hughes (born May 2, 1985) is an American figure skater. She is the 2002 Olympic gold medalist and 2001 World bronze medalist in ladies singles.
Hughes was born in Great Neck, New York. Her father, John Hughes, is a Canadian of Irish descent and was the captain of the NCAA champion 1969–70 Cornell University ice hockey team. Her mother, Amy Pastarnack, is Jewish and is a breast cancer survivor. This led Sarah Hughes to become an advocate for breast cancer awareness. She appeared in a commercial for General Electric promoting breast cancer awareness and research. Hughes stated: "I always said that if I can get one person to get a mammogram, I've accomplished something." Among the other causes Hughes supports are Figure Skating in Harlem, which provides free ice skating lessons and academic tutoring for girls in the Harlem community in NYC. Hughes has supported this program for over ten years.
Sarah Hughes is the fourth of six children. One of her younger sisters, Emily, is also a figure skater and competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

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Sasha Cohen
Alexandra Pauline "Sasha" Cohen (born October 26, 1984) is a U.S. figure skater. She is the 2006 Olympic silver medalist, a three-time World Championship medalist, the 2003 Grand Prix Final Champion, and the 2006 U.S. Champion.
Cohen was born in Westwood, California, a neighborhood in Los Angeles. Her full name is Alexandra Pauline Cohen. Her nickname "Sasha" is a Russian diminutive of "Alexandra". As a university student, she has used the name Alex, rather than Sasha.
Her mother, Galina (née Feldman), is a Jewish immigrant from Ukraine and a former ballet dancer.
Her father, Roger Cohen, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law. Roger Cohen was formerly a law partner at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, and Of Counsel at Dorsey and Whitney. He is Founder and CEO of VerticalPoint Solutions, a company that simplifies and automates compliance for document intensive industries. VerticalPoint is based in Orange County, California.[1]
Sasha Cohen graduated from Futures High School in Mission Viejo, California in 2002. As of 2011, she was enrolled as an undergraduate student at Columbia University. Her sister, Natalia ("Natasha"), began college at Barnard College in August 2006.

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Sergei Grinkov
Sergei Mikhailovich Grinkov (February 4, 1967 – November 20, 1995) was a Russian pair skater. Together with partner Ekaterina Gordeeva, he was the 1988 and 1994 Olympic Champion and four-time World Champion.
Sergei Grinkov was born in Moscow to Mikhail Kondrateyevich Grinkov and Anna Filipovna Grinkova. The younger of two children, he had an older sister named Natalia Mikhailovna Grinkova.
He first took the ice at the age of five, entering Children and Youth Sports School of CSKA in Moscow. As Grinkov was not a strong solo skater, his coach decided to try him in pair skating, and in August 1981, at age fifteen, he was paired with eleven-year-old Ekaterina Gordeeva at the Central Red Army Club (CSKA) in Moscow by coach Vladimir Zaharov.
The pair won the 1985 World Junior Championship in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The following year they won the first of their four World Figure Skating Championships. They became repeat world champions the following year and won gold at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta.

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Shannon Elizabeth
Shannon Elizabeth Fadal (born September 7, 1973), better known as Shannon Elizabeth, is an American actress and former fashion model. Elizabeth is well known for her roles in comedy films such as American Pie, Scary Movie and Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back. She is also known for her work in horror films such as Thirteen Ghosts, Cursed, and Night of the Demons. She became widely known as a sex symbol for her role in the 1999 comedy film American Pie.
Born Shannon Elizabeth Fadal, Elizabeth's father is of Lebanese descent and her mother is of English, Irish, German, and Cherokee ancestry. She was born in Houston, Texas and raised in Waco, Texas. She grew up in a low income background. In high school, she was very much interested in tennis and at one point even considered a professional tennis career. She worked as a model before she began a career in film.
Elizabeth appeared in several films, including the horror film Jack Frost and Dish Dogs, before being cast in 1999's American Pie. Pie was a major box office success, and achieved cult status for her nude bedroom scene in the movie. Elizabeth subsequently appeared in several Hollywood films, including Scary Movie, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and Tomcats. Elizabeth starred in the UPN series Cuts until the show was canceled in May 2006. Cuts and its parent show, One on One, were two of the many shows not to be picked up by The CW. Elizabeth appeared in That '70s Show for a number of episodes.

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Sherri Baier
Sherri Baier is a former Canadian pair skater. With partner Robin Cowan, she won the World Junior Championships in 1976, its inaugural year, and then went on to win the Canadian national championships in 1978.
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Sherwin Badger
Sherwin Campbell Badger (August 29, 1901 – April 8, 1972) was an American figure skater who competed in singles and pairs. He earned the men's titles at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships from 1920 through 1924. He also captured the pairs gold medal with partner Beatrix Loughran three times, and the pair won the silver medal at the 1932 Winter Olympics. Prior to pairing with Loughran, he competed first with Clara Frothingham and later with Edith Rotch.
After his competitive career ended, he was a skating judge and the head of the U.S. Figure Skating Association. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and died in Sherborn, Massachusetts.
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Simone Koch
Simone Koch (born October 25, 1968 in Dresden) is a German figure skater.
Simone Koch learned her first triple jumps with coach Ingeburg Walter (still coach at the Dresdner EC). Later she was coached by Ingrid Lehmann in Berlin. Simone Koch represented the club SC Einheit Berlin and therefore the GDR.
In 1983, at the age of 14, she had already become junior world champion. In 1984 she was awarded the silver medal at the junior world championships placing behind another East German, Karin Hendschke. In the following years Simone Koch was a direct rival of Katarina Witt in their country. Koch became 1984 and 1988 silver medalist at the East German Championships, each time placing behind Katarina Witt. In 1989 Simone Koch was one of the favourites for the title of European Champion. However, she lost the qualifying competition in East Germany versus Evelyn Großmann and Simone Lang.
She is married now and has changed her name to Simone Schnabel. Her husband is Günther Schnabel. The couple has a daughter (born 1990): Lisa-Maria. In 1992 and 1993, after the German reunification, Simone Koch attempted to qualify for international championships, but did not succeed.

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Sjoukje Dijkstra
Sjoukje Rosalinde Dijkstra (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌʃʌukjə ˈdɛikstrɑ], born 28 January 1942 in Akkrum, Netherlands) is a Dutch figure skater. She is the 1964 Olympic champion in Ladies' Singles, the 1960 Olympic silver medalist, a three-time World champion (1962–1964), five-time European champion (1960–1964), and the six-time Dutch national champion (1959–1964).
Following the retirement of Carol Heiss in 1960, who took gold medals in Winter Olympics and World Championships that year to Dijkstra's silver medals in both competitions, Dijkstra became the dominant skater in Ladies Figure Skating. She won all the World and European Championships held between 1961 and 1964 (1961 World Championships was cancelled after Sabena Flight 548 Crash). Her win at the 1964 Winter Olympics was the first gold for the Netherlands at the Winter Olympics^{[citation needed]}. She is the last person to have won Olympic gold medal after winning a silver or bronze medal in a prior Olympic in Ladies Figure Skating. After 1964, she turned professional and toured with Holiday On Ice from 1964 to 1972. She became the advisor to the figure skating section of the Dutch Skating Federation in 1985. Currently she does commentary for Dutch television.

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Sonja Henie
Sonja Henie (April 8, 1912 – October 12, 1969) was a Norwegian figure skater and film star. She was a three-time Olympic Champion (1928, 1932, 1936) in Ladies Singles, a ten-time World Champion (1927–1936) and a six-time European Champion (1931–1936). Henie won more Olympic and World titles than any other ladies figure skater. At the height of her acting career she was one of the highest paid stars in Hollywood.
Sonja Henie was born in Kristiania, current Oslo, the only daughter of Wilhelm Henie (1872–1937), a prosperous Norwegian furrier and his wife Selma Lochmann-Nielsen (1888–1961). In addition to the income from the fur business, both of Henie's parents had inherited wealth. Wilhelm Henie had been a one-time World Cycling Champion and the Henie children were encouraged to take up a variety of sports at a young age. Henie initially showed talent at skiing, and then followed her older brother Leif to take up figure skating. As a girl, Henie was also a nationally ranked tennis player and a skilled swimmer and equestrienne. Once Henie began serious training as a figure skater, her formal schooling ended. She was educated by tutors, and her father hired the best experts in the world, including the famous Russian ballerina Tamara Karsavina, to transform his daughter into a sporting celebrity.

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Sonya Klopfer
Sonya Klopfer Dunfield is an American figure skater. She is the 1951 U.S. national champion. Having won at age 15, she was the youngest U.S. ladies' champion until Tara Lipinski won in 1997 at age 14. Klopfer is a two-time World medalist (bronze in 1951 and silver in 1952). She placed 4th at the 1952 Winter Olympics.
Following her retirement from competitive skating, she married Peter Dunfield and worked as a coach. She coached Dorothy Hamill,Elizabeth Manley, and Scott Smith among many others. She was inducted into the Skate Canada Hall of Fame in 2001. and in 2005 was inducted along with her husband, Peter Dunfield, into the Professional Skaters Association' Coaches Hall of Fame.
Klopfer was named after Sonja Henie.

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Stanislav Morozov
Stanislav Oleksandrovych Morozov (Ukrainian: Станіслав Олександрович Морозов; born February 1, 1979 in Yekaterinburg) is a retired Ukrainian pair skater who now works as a coach. With partner Tatiana Volosozhar, he was a four-time (2005, 2007, 2008, 2010) Ukrainian national champion. They placed 12th at the 2006 Winter Olympics and 8th at the 2010 Winter Olympics, and as high as 4th place at Worlds and Europeans.
Morozov began skating because his father was a pair coach, however, as a young boy he was considered overweight and written off. After starting out as a singles skater, Morozov switched to pair skating at 11. He was coached by Galina Kukhar from 1996 until 2008. Morozov first competed with Elena Belousovskaya and then with Aliona Savchenko.
Savchenko and Morozov won the 2000 World Junior Championships. They went on to place 15th at the 2002 Winter Olympics. He retired from competitive skating in 2002 due to injuries, and turned to coaching. He coached the team of Tatiana Volosozhar and Petr Kharchenko, and later offered to skate with her.

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Stanislav Zakarov
Stanislav Zakarov (born August 31, 1981) is a Russian pairs figure skater. He won the 2002 World Junior Figure Skating Championships with partner Elena Riabchuk.

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Steve Guttenberg
Steve Guttenberg (born August 24, 1958) is an American actor and comedian. He became well known during the 1980s after a series of starring roles in major Hollywood films, including Cocoon, Three Men and a Baby, Police Academy, and Short Circuit.
Steven Robert Guttenberg was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Ann Iris (née Newman), and Jerome Stanley Guttenberg, an electrical engineer. He has two sisters. He had a Jewish upbringing in North Massapequa, New York, where he graduated from Plainedge High School in 1976 (according to some sources, he transferred to New York City's High School of Performing Arts two years before graduating). During high school, he attended a summer program at the Juilliard School where he studied under John Houseman, and he won a role in an off-Broadway production of The Lion in Winter. After his high school graduation, he moved to California to pursue an acting career.
Guttenberg has starred in three film franchises: Police Academy (1984), Cocoon (1985), and Three Men and a Baby (1987). He has also appeared in such renowned films as Diner (1982), The Bedroom Window (1987), The Boys from Brazil (1978), and Short Circuit (1986).

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Steve Hartsell
Steve Hartsell (born January 6, 1978, Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American pair skater. With sister Danielle Hartsell, he is the 1999 U.S. National Champion and the 1997 World Junior Champion. After his sister retired, he skated with Marcy Hinzmann and Kristen Roth.
Men's Singles
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Sui Wenjing
Sui Wenjing (Chinese: 隋文静; pinyin: Suí Wénjìng; born July 18, 1995 in Harbin, Heilongjiang) is a Chinese pair skater. With partner Han Cong, she is the 2012 Four Continents champion, three time ( 2010, 2011, 2012 ) World Junior champion, the 2009 Junior Grand Prix Final champion and the 2010 Chinese national champion. Sui and Han have landed throw quadruple Salchows and quadruple twists in competition.
Sui/Han teamed up in 2007 without having previous pair skating experience. They both were inspired by 2010 Olympic Champions Shen Xue & Hongbo Zhao and started skating after watching them competing in the 2002 Winter Olympics.
They made their international debut in the 2009–2010 ISU Junior Grand Prix, where they placed 1st at their events. In the ISU Junior Grand Prix Final they placed 1st. They won the Chinese Figure Skating Championships and earned a trip to the 2010 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, where they placed 1st. They became the second Chinese pair winning the World Junior Figure Skating Championships after Zhang Dan & Zhang Hao who won the title in 2001 and 2003.

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Surya Bonaly
Surya Bonaly (born December 15, 1973) is a French professional figure skater. She is a three-time World Championship silver medalist, a five-time European Champion, the 1991 World Junior Champion and a nine-time French National Champion.
Bonaly was born in Nice, France in 1973 and adopted by Suzanne Bonaly, a physical education teacher, and her husband Georges, an architect who worked for the government. Georges and Suzanne initially told the media that their daughter had been born on the island of Réunion, because, as David Wallechinsky's Complete Book of the Winter Olympics explains, they thought this origin sounded more "exotic". When Surya approached the age of 18 and began researching her birth history, George and Suzanne admitted that Surya's biological mother had been from the island but that Surya herself had not been born there.Didier Gailhaguet, who was Bonaly's first coach of her competitive career, admitted fabricating the story because he thought it would interest the press.

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Suzie Brasher
Suzie Brasher is a former American figure skater. She won the World Junior Championships in 1976, its inaugural year.
She is now a coach at Cottonwood Heights FSC in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Sydne Vogel
Sydne Vogel (born June 20, 1979 in Anchorage, Alaska) is an American figure skater. Her parents are Joy and Dennis Vogel. She married Jeff McKechnie on November 14, 2010.
Sydne trained from 1987-1994 under the direction of Traci Coleman and trained under the direction of Vladimir Kaprov in 1994. She competed in the 1994 US National Championships in Detroit in the Novice level and placed 5th. Realizing that there was much work to be done, Sydne went home from the 1994 Nationals and worked non-stop to learn all of her triple jumps. She showed up to the 1995 US National Championships in Rhode Island and beat out the favorite, Tara Lipinski, for the gold medal in Junior Ladies. Sydne went on to win the 1997 World Junior Championships and the 1998 NCAA National Championships. Sydne's career never reached its full potential after a back injury in 1997, but she continued to skate in various competitions and shows until 2006. She skated for Royal Caribbean International in 2006 on the MS Adventure of the Seas and the MS Navigator of the Seas until she decided to pursue a higher education to become a medical doctor.

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Tai Babilonia
Tai Reina Babilonia (born September 22, 1959 in Los Angeles, California) is an American pair skater. With partner Randy Gardner, she was the 1979 World Champion and the 1976-1980 U.S. national champion and two time olympian '76, '80.
Babilonia & Gardner began skating together when Babilonia was eight years old and Gardner was ten by Mabel Fairbanks. Their coach from '72 till '80 was John Nicks. The pair were five-time gold medalists at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships and won the gold medal at the 1979 World Figure Skating Championships. They were medal favorites at the 1980 Olympics but were forced to withdraw due to an injury to Gardner.
Babilonia was the first figure skater of partial African American descent to win U.S. and World titles^{[citation needed]}. She is also part Filipino on her father's side and part Native American.
Babilonia appeared in the 2006 FOX television program Skating with Celebrities, partnered with Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner (Decathlon).
Babilonia has a son, Scout Gabriel (born in January 1995), with her ex-husband Cary Butler, whom she married in 1991 and divorced in 1997. she is currently single. more personal and professional info at www.taibabilonia.com

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Tara Lipinski
Tara Kristen Lipinski (born June 10, 1982) is an American figure skater. At the age of 15, she won the Ladies' Singles Olympic gold medal in figure skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics. Lipinski remains the youngest individual gold medalist in the history of the Olympic Winter Games. She is also the 1997 World Champion, two-time Champions Series Final Champion (1997–1998) and 1997 U.S. Champion.
Lipinski, an only child, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Patricia (née Brozyniak), a secretary, and Jack Richard Lipinski, an oil executive and lawyer. She spent her earliest years in Washington Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey. The family lived in Sewell, New Jersey until 1991. Lipinski began roller skating at age three and later won a number of competitions. She began figure skating at age six. Her first competition was the 1990 regional championship, where she finished second. At the 1991 United States Roller Skating Championships, she won the primary girls freestyle as a nine-year-old.

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Tatiana Andreeva
Tatiana Andreeva is a former Soviet figure skater. She won the World Junior Championships in 1985.

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Tenley Albright
Tenley Emma Albright (born July 18, 1935 in Newton Centre, Massachusetts) is a former American figure skater. She is the 1956 Olympic champion in Ladies' Singles, 1952 Olympic silver medalist, the 1953 & 1955 World Champion, the 1953 & 1955 North American champion, and the 1952–1956 U.S. national champion.
At the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, she became the first American female skater to win an Olympic gold medal.
Albright retired from competitive skating after the 1956 season. She never skated professionally. A graduate of The Winsor School in Boston, she had entered Radcliffe College in 1953 as a pre-med student, and after her Olympic triumph she focused on completing her education. Albright graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1961, and went on to become a surgeon.
Her husband is former Ritz-Carlton hotel owner Gerald Blakely (1981–). She was married to Tudor Gardiner, a lawyer, 1962–1976.

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Theresa Weld
Theresa Weld Blanchard (August 21, 1893; Brookline, Massachusetts – March 12, 1978; Brookline, Massachusetts) was an American figure skater who competed in the disciplines of single skating and pair skating. Her pairs partner was Nathaniel Niles.
As a singles skater, she won the gold medal at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships six times and competed three times in the Olympics, capturing a bronze medal in 1920. With Niles, she won the national pairs title nine times and also participated in the Olympics three times.
Blanchard was also the long-time volunteer editor of the United States Figure Skating Association's official publication, Skating magazine; first jointly with Niles from the magazine's founding in 1923, and then as sole editor after his death in 1931, up until 1963. The magazine was originally published out of her home. Her long competitive career gave her many contacts throughout the skating world. She also served as the first chair of the association's Professionals Committee from 1937 to 1947.

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Tiffany Chin
Audrey Tiffany Chin (Traditional Chinese: 陳婷婷, Simplified Chinese: 陈婷婷; pinyin: Chén Tíngtíng, born October 3, 1967) is an American figure skater who was the first U.S. ladies' champion of Asian-American descent. She grew up in San Diego, California. She won the 1981 World Junior Figure Skating Championships. At the 1984 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, she finished second overall after winning both the short and long programs, and qualified for the 1984 United States Winter Olympic team. At Sarajevo Chin began the competition by placing 12th in the compulsory figures but rallied to place second in the short program and third in the long program for a fourth place finish overall. She began the next Olympic quadrennium with a victory at the 1985 U.S. Championships, where despite a fall in the short program and a conservative long program, she finished first in all three phases of the competition.

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Tiffany Scott
Tiffany Scott (born May 1, 1977) is an American figure skater.
Scott was born in Hanson, Massachusetts. She skated with Philip Dulebohn until 2005. They competed at the 2002 Olympic Games and won the pairs title at the 2003 U.S. Championships. In 2005, Dulebohn retired from competition and Scott teamed up with Rusty Fein. Dulebohn was one of the pair's coaches during their brief partnership. Scott and Fein finished 4th at their first and only U.S. Figure Skating Championships in 2006.
Away from the ice, Scott married Brian Pryor in 2005. In May 2006, Scott announced her retirement from competitive skating.
(with Dulebohn)
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Todd Sand
Todd Sand (born October 30, 1963) is an American pairs skater. He currently skates professionally with wife Jenni Meno.
Sand was born in Burbank, California. He has dual American and Danish citizenship and early in his career, he represented Denmark as a single skater. He competed for that country at the World Figure Skating Championships and the European Figure Skating Championships in the early 1980s.
In 1985, Sand began competing as a pair skater with Lori Blasko, representing the United States. They were the 1985 U.S. national bronze medalists on the junior level.
Following that partnership, Sand teamed up with Natasha Kuchiki. They are the 1991 U.S. National Champions and 1991 World bronze medalists. Kuchiki & Sand competed together at the 1992 Winter Olympics, where Sand fell in love with Jenni Meno.
Meno and Sand teamed up on the ice in April 1992. They won three national titles, three medals at the World Championships, and competed in two Olympic Games. Following their retirement from competitive skating, they skated professionally in the Stars on Ice tour for six seasons.

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Todd Waggoner
Todd Eric Waggoner (born December 24, 1965 in Arlington Heights, Illinois) was an American pair skater who competed with partner Gillian Wachsman. The couple won the gold medal at the 1986 United States Figure Skating Championships. They finished fifth at the 1988 Winter Olympic Games and came in fourth at the World Figure Skating Championships that year.
(pairs with Jan Waggoner)
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Tonya Harding
Tonya Maxene Harding (born November 12, 1970) is an American figure skating champion, a two-time Olympian, and a two-time Skate America Champion. In 1991 she won the U.S. Figure Skating Championships and placed second in the World Championships. She was the second woman, and the first American woman, to complete a triple axel jump in competition. She became notorious after her ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, conspired with Shawn Eckhardt and Shane Stant to physically assault her skating competitor Nancy Kerrigan at a practice session during the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. (Stant carried out the assault as planned.)
Harding was born in Portland, Oregon, the daughter of LaVona and Al Harding. She had a half-brother, Chris Davison (deceased). Her father had health problems that sometimes made him unable to work. She claims that her mother sexually abused her, a claim her mother denies. She began skating at an early age under the direction of the late Sylvia Harpolscheimer. She landed her first triple lutz at age 12. Her mother made many of her skating costumes.

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Veronica Pershina
Veronica Pershina (born 1966 in Yekaterinburg, former Soviet Union) is a former Soviet pair skater. With partner Marat Akbarov, she was the 1985 European bronze medalist and 1979 World Junior champion. She was trained by Stanislav Zhuk and Irina Rodnina.
From 1986 until 1990 she skated with "Russian All Stars" under Tatiana Tarasova management. She made a worldwide tour with Jane Torvill and Christopher Dean from 1988 until 1990. On January 24, 1990 she defected to the United States rather than return from New York to London with the Torvill & Dean / Russian All Stars tour group. Others who defected with her were her future husband Igor Shpilband, future US ice dancing champion Gorsha Sur and former Junior World ice dancing champion Elena Krikanova.
She now lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan and works as a coach. She was married to the ice dancing coach Igor Shpilband. Their daughter, Ekaterina Shpilband, placed 4th in the Juvenile ladies division of the 2009 U.S. Junior Championships. At the 2010 United States Junior Championships, Ekaterina won the intermediate ladies division.

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Victoria Maxiuta
Victoria Maxiuta (born November 15, 1981 in Kiev, Ukraine SSR, Soviet Union is a Ukrainian pairs figure skater. She represented Russia until 2000. With partner Vladislav Zhovnirski, she won 1996 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, as well as three World Junior bronze medals. After that partnership, she competed with partner Vitali Dubina for Ukraine through the 2001/2002 season.
(with Dubina for Ukraine)
(with Dubina for Russia)
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Vivian Joseph
Vivian Joseph (born March 7, 1948 in Chicago, Illinois) is a female American figure skater. Alongside her skating partner, sister Ronald Joseph, Joseph took 2nd place at the Midwest Skating Championship in 1957 before winning a number of awards between 1961 and 1965, notable holding the top prize in the U.S. Junior National Champions (1961), U.S. Championship (1965) and North American Championship (1965). For a time they were awarded as bronze medalists in the 1964 Winter Olympic Games due to the disqualification of the German silver medal-winning team of Hans-Jürgen Bäumler and Marika Kilius, but after that team was reinstated in 1987, they were pushed back to 4th.
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Vladislav Zhovnirski
Vladislav Vladimirovich Zhovnirski (Russian: Владислав Владимирович Жовнирский; born July 12, 1978 in Kiev, Ukraine SSR, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian pair skater who competed internationally for Russia. With partner Victoria Maxiuta, he is the 1996 World Junior champion for Russia. He later competed with Elena Ivanovich. Following the end of his competitive career, he began working as a pairs coach in collaboration with Nina Mozer. He coaches in Moscow. His students include Lina Fedorova and Maxim Miroshkin.

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Yuka Sato
Yuka Sato (佐藤有香, Satō Yuka^?, born February 14, 1973) is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 1994 World Champion, the 1990 World Junior Champion and the 1993 & 1994 Japanese national champion. She placed 7th at the 1992 Winter Olympics and 5th at the 1994 Winter Olympics.
Yuka Sato was born in Tokyo. Both of her parents are former skaters. Her father, Nobuo Sato, competed at the 1960 Winter Olympics and 1964 Winter Olympics while her mother, Kumiko Okawa, competed in the 1964 Winter Olympics and 1968 Winter Olympics.
In addition to being coached by her parents, Sato also worked with coach Peter Dunfield.
Sato is a graduate of Hosei University.
Sato is credited as a stunt performer in the 2007 figure skating comedy motion picture Blades of Glory.
She married fellow figure skater Jason Dungjen in 1999.
In the 1988–1989 season, Yuka Sato won the Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships to qualify for the 1989 World Figure Skating Championships, where she placed 10th. She also qualified for the 1989 Japan Figure Skating Championships, where she won the bronze medal behind Midori Ito and Junko Yaginuma.

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Yukina Ota
Yukina Ōta (太田由希奈, Ōta Yukina^?, born November 26, 1986) in Kyoto is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2003 World Junior Champion and the 2004 Four Continents Champion. She announced her retirement from competitive skating on November 26, 2008, retiring due to injury.
Ota won the bronze medal at the 2000-2001 Japan Junior Championships.
In the 2001-2002 season, Ota made her Junior Grand Prix debut. She won her event in Bulgaria and placed 4th at the event in Sweden to qualify for the Junior Grand Prix Final, where she placed 6th. She won a second bronze medal at the 2001-2002 Japan Junior Championships, which qualified her for the 2002 Junior Worlds. She placed 9th at that competition.
In the 2002-2003 season, Ota competed on the 2002-2003 Junior Grand Prix circuit. She won both her events to qualify for the Junior Grand Prix Final, which she won. She placed fourth at the Japan Championships and qualified for Junior Worlds. She won the 2003 World Junior title.
In the 2003-2004 season, Ota made her senior international debut. She competed on the Grand Prix of Figure Skating. She placed 4th at the 2003 Skate Canada International and 6th at the 2003 NHK Trophy. At the Japan Championships, Ota placed fifth. She competed at the 2004 Four Continents and won the event after placing third in the short program and second in the free skate.

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Yuri Kvashnin
Yuri Kvashnin (Russian: Юрий Квашнин, born November 24, 1964 in Moscow) is a Russian pair skater who competed for the Soviet Union. He won the World Junior Figure Skating Championships with partner Marina Avstriskaia in 1982 and 1983. They competed at the 1984 Winter Olympic Games, where they placed ninth.
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Yvonne Sherman
Yvonne C. Sherman Tutt (May 3, 1930 – February 2, 2005 in Colorado Springs, CO) was an American figure skater. She won the gold medal at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships twice in ladies' single skating and once in pair skating with Robert Swenning. Sherman competed in both disciplines in the 1948 Winter Olympics.
After her competitive career ended, Sherman became a skating judge. She was married to William Thayer Tutt, a prominent skating administrator and promoter from Colorado Springs. Both Tutts were inducted into the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1991.
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Zhang Dan
Zhang Dan (simplified Chinese: 张丹; traditional Chinese: 張丹; pinyin: Zhāng Dān; born October 4, 1985 in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China) is a Chinese pair skater. With Zhang Hao, she is the 2006 Olympic silver medalist, 2005 & 2010 Four Continents champion, and three time (2006, 2008–2009) World silver medalist. Zhang Dan retired from competition in May 2012.
The unrelated Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao teamed up in 1997. They immediately had a lot of success on the junior circuit. They won two medals on the Junior Grand Prix in their first year on it and then placed 5th at the Junior Grand Prix Final. They also won the bronze medal at the 1999 Chinese national championships and the silver at the 2000 Chinese national championships.
In the 2000-2001 season, they won the Junior Grand Prix Final, placed third at nationals, and then won Junior Worlds. At the 2000 Junior Worlds, they performed a quadruple twist, the first quad twist ever performed at that event.
They stayed in the junior ranks in the 2001-2002 season, winning the Junior Grand Prix Final yet again. They won the bronze medal at the 2002 Four Continents Championships and then went to the 2002 Olympics, where they placed 11th. After the Olympics, they went to their first Worlds and came in 9th place.

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Zhang Hao
Zhang Hao (simplified Chinese: 张昊; traditional Chinese: 張昊; pinyin: Zhāng Hào; born July 6, 1984 in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China) is a Chinese figure skater. With former partner Zhang Dan, he is the 2006 Olympic silver medalist, 2005 & 2010 Four Continents champion, and three time (2006, 2008–2009) World silver medalist. Zhang Hao currently trains with Peng Cheng.
Early in his career, Zhang Hao competed with Zhang Liyun. He teamed up with Zhang Dan, to whom he is not related, in 1997. They immediately had considerable success on the junior circuit, winning two medals on the Junior Grand Prix in their first year and placing 5th at the Junior Grand Prix Final. They also won the bronze medal at the 1999 Chinese national championships and the silver at the 2000 Chinese national championships.
In the 2000-2001 season, they won the Junior Grand Prix Final, placed third at nationals, and then won Junior Worlds. At the 2000 Junior Worlds, they performed a quadruple twist, the first quad twist ever performed at that event.

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Kristi Yamaguchi

Kristi Yamaguchi at the 2009 Heart Truth fashion show

Personal information

Country represented

United States

Born

July 12, 1971 (age 40)
Hayward, California, U.S.

Former partner

Rudi Galindo

Former coach

Christy Ness

Skating club

St. Moritz ISC

Retired

1992^{[citation needed]}

Medal record

Competitor for the United States
Ladies' Figure skating
Olympic Games
Gold	1992 Albertville	Ladies' singles
World Championships
Gold	1991 Munich	Ladies' singles
Gold	1992 Oakland	Ladies' singles
World Junior Championships
Gold	1988 Brisbane	Ladies' singles
Pairs' Figure skating
World Junior Championships
Gold	1988 Brisbane	Pairs
Bronze	1987 Kitchener	Pairs

Kristine Tsuya "Kristi" Yamaguchi (born July 12, 1971)^[1] is an American figure skater. She is the 1992 Olympic Champion in ladies' singles. Yamaguchi also won two World Figure Skating Championships in 1991 and 1992 and a U.S. Figure Skating Championships in 1992. She won one junior world title in 1988 and two national titles in 1989 and 1990 as a pairs skater with Rudy Galindo. In December 2005, she was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame. Yamaguchi was a local commentator on figure skating for San Francisco TV station KNTV (NBC 11) during the 2006 Winter Olympics.^[2] In 2008, Yamaguchi became the celebrity champion in the sixth season of Dancing with the Stars.

1 Early life
2 Pairs career
3 Singles career
4 Professional and personal life
5 Dancing With the Stars
6 Competitive highlights
- 6.1 Singles
- 6.2 Pairs
7 Filmography
8 Selected books
9 Notes
10 References
11 Further reading
12 External links

Early life [link]

Yamaguchi was born in Hayward, California,^[3] to Jim Yamaguchi, a dentist, and Carole (née Doi), a medical secretary. Yamaguchi is Yonsei (fourth-generation Nikkei).^[4] Her paternal grandparents and maternal great-grandparents immigrated to the United States from Japan, originating from the Wakayama Prefecture and the Saga Prefecture.^[5]^[6] Yamaguchi's grandparents were sent to an internment camp during World War II, where her mother was born.

Yamaguchi and her siblings, Brett and Lori, grew up in Fremont, California. Yamaguchi attended Mission San Jose High School her junior and senior year where she graduated. While at Mission, Kristi's excellence in skating prompted a "Kristi Yamaguchi Day" on February 24, 1989. Mission held an assembly honoring her, where she was presented with an honorary varsity jacket.

Yamaguchi began skating, and ballet lessons, as a child, as physical therapy for her club feet.

Pairs career [link]

With Rudy Galindo she won the junior title at the U.S. championships in 1986. Two years later, Yamaguchi won the singles and, with Galindo, the pairs titles at the 1988 World Junior Championships; Galindo had won the 1987 World Junior Championship in singles. In 1989 Yamaguchi and Galindo won the senior pairs title at the U.S. Championships. They won the title again in 1990.

As a pairs team, Yamaguchi and Galindo were unusual in that they were both accomplished singles skaters, which allowed them to consistently perform difficult elements like side by side Triple Flip jumps, which are still more difficult than side by side jumps performed by current top international pairs teams. They also jumped and spun in opposite directions, Yamaguchi counter-clockwise, and Galindo clockwise, which gave them an unusual look on the ice. In 1990, Yamaguchi decided to focus solely on singles. Galindo went on to have a successful singles career as well, winning the 1996 U.S. championships and the 1996 World bronze medal.

Singles career [link]

In 1991, Yamaguchi moved to Edmonton, Alberta, to train with coach Christy Ness. There, she took psychology courses at the University of Alberta.^[7] The same year Yamaguchi placed second to Tonya Harding at the U.S. championships, her third consecutive silver medal at Nationals. The following month in Munich, Germany, Yamaguchi won the 1991 World Championships. That year the American ladies team, consisting of Yamaguchi, Harding and Nancy Kerrigan, became the only national ladies team to have its members place first, second and third at Worlds. In 1992, Yamaguchi won her first U.S. title and gained a spot to the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. Joining her on the U.S. team were again Kerrigan and Harding. While competitors Harding and Japan’s Midori Ito were consistently landing the difficult triple axel jump in competition, Yamaguchi instead focused on her artistry and her triple-triple combinations in hopes of becoming a more well-rounded skater. Both Harding and Ito fell on their triple axels at the Olympics (though Ito successfully landed the jump later on in her long program after missing it the first time), allowing Yamaguchi to win the gold, despite errors in her free program, including putting a hand to the ice on a triple loop and a double salchow instead of a planned triple. Yamaguchi went on to successfully defend her World title that same year.

Professional and personal life [link]

Kristi Yamaguchi turned professional after the 1992 competitive season. She toured for many years with Stars on Ice and also participated in the pro competition circuit.

Since July 8, 2000, she has been married to Bret Hedican, a retired professional hockey player she met at the 1992 Winter Olympics. Yamaguchi and Hedican reside in Northern California with their two daughters, Keara Kiyomi, born in 2003 and Emma Yoshiko, born in 2005.^[8] Hedican is a TV analyst who covers the San Jose Sharks ice hockey team.

In 1996, Yamaguchi established the Always Dream Foundation for children. The goal of the foundation is to provide funding for after school programs, computers, back-to-school clothes for underprivileged children and summer camps for kids with disabilities. Commenting in 2009, she explained her inspiration for the project:

"I was inspired by the Make-A-Wish foundation to make a positive difference in children’s lives. We’ve been helping out various children’s organizations, which is rewarding. Our latest project is a playground designed so that kids of all abilities can play side by side. That’s our focus now."^[9]

Yamaguchi is the author of Always Dream, Pure Gold, and Figure Skating for Dummies. In 2011, she published a children's book, Dream Big, Little Pig,^[10] which was #2 on the New York Times bestseller list; a portion of the proceeds went to the Always Dream Foundation to support early childhood literacy programs.^[11] A sequel, It's a Big World Little Pig,^[12] is scheduled to be published March 6, 2012.^[13]

Yamaguchi made a fitness video with the California Raisins in 1993 called, "Hip to be Fit: The California Raisins and Kristi Yamaguchi". As an actress, she appeared in the PBS series, Freedom: A History of Us portraying Haruko Obata, one of the first teachers of ikebana in the San Francisco Bay Area. As herself, she appeared on Everybody Loves Raymond, D2: The Mighty Ducks, Frosted Pink, and the Disney Channel original movie Go Figure. Yamaguchi has also appeared in numerous television skating specials including the Disney special Aladdin on Ice, portraying Princess Jasmine.

In 2006 Yamaguchi was the host of WE tv Series. Skating's Next Star created and produced by Major League Figure Skating.

Kristi Yamaguchi received the Inspiration Award at the 2008 Asian Excellence Awards. Two days after her Dancing with the Stars champion crowning, she received the 2008 Sonja Henie Award from the Professional Skaters Association. Among her other awards are the Thurman Munson Award, Women's Sports Foundation Flo Hyman Award, and the Great Sports Legends Award. She is also a member of the U.S. Olympic Committee Olympic Hall of Fame, World Skating Hall of Fame, and the US Figure Skating Hall of Fame.

In 2010 Yamaguchi worked as a daily NBC Olympics skating broadcast analyst on NBC's Universal Sports Network.

According to research done by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of Harvard University, in 2010 for the PBS series Faces of America, her heritage can be traced back to Wakayama and Saga prefectures in Japan, and her paternal grandfather, Tatsuichi Yamaguchi, immigrated to Hawaii in 1899.^[14]

[edit] Dancing With the Stars

On May 20, 2008, Yamaguchi became the celebrity champion^[15] on ABC's reality program Dancing with the Stars 6th season paired with Mark Ballas, defeating finalist couple Jason Taylor and Edyta Śliwińska.

In season 11, week 8 "Instant Choreography" was the theme in which the couples practice their routines for a week and will receive the music for one of their performances only 20 minutes before their live routines. Fan favorites from previous seasons also came back to judge the couples, who re-created their most memorable routines on the 200th episode; these guest judges were Hélio Castroneves, Kelly Osbourne, Emmitt Smith, Drew Lachey, Gilles Marini, and Mel B. Kristi Yamaguchi and Apolo Ohno also served as team captains for the team dances. Yamaguchi's team consisted of Rick & Cheryl, Kyle & Lacey and Bristol & Mark, while Brandy & Maksim, Jennifer & Derek and Kurt & Anna were on Ohno's team.

Competitive highlights [link]

Singles [link]

Event	1987–88	1988–89	1989–90	1990–91	1991–92
Winter Olympics					1st
World Championships		6th	4th	1st	1st
World Junior Championships	1st
U.S. Championships	10th	2nd	2nd	2nd	1st
Skate Canada			1st
Skate America		3rd		1st	2nd
Nations Cup				1st
Trophée Lalique					2nd
NHK Trophy		2nd	2nd
Goodwill Games				1st

Pairs [link]

(with Rudy Galindo)

Event	1984–85	1985–86	1986–87	1987–88	1988–89	1989–90
World Championships					5th	5th
World Junior Championships		5th	3rd	1st
U.S. Championships	5th J.	1st J.	5th	5th	1st	1st
Skate America			5th			2nd
NHK Trophy					3rd	4th
Skate Electric					1st
J. = Junior level

Filmography [link]

Year	Title	Role
1994	D2: The Mighty Ducks	Herself (Cameo)
2005	Go Figure	Herself (Cameo)

Selected books [link]

Yamaguchi, Kristi. Figure skating for dummies, Foster City, CA : IDG Books, 1997. ISBN 0-7645-5084-5
Yamaguchi, Kristi. Pure Gold, Harcourt School, 1997. ISBN 978-0-15-307551-3
Yamaguchi, Kristi. Always dream, Dallas : Taylor Pub. Co., 1998. ISBN 0-87833-996-5

Notes [link]

^ Date of birth found on the California Birth Index 1905–1995, under Yamaguchi, Kristine T, on 12 July 1971 in Los Angeles County.
^ "Jan. 25, 2006: Bay Area Gold Medalist Kristi Yamaguchi Joins NBC11's Olympic Broadcast Team". Nbc11.com. http://www.nbc11.com/press/6445119/detail.html. Retrieved 2010-04-23.
^ [1]
^ Nomura, Gail M. (1998). "Japanese American Women," in The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History (Mankiller, Barbara Smith, ed.), pp. 288–290. at Google Books
^ Edited by Richard Demak (1992-03-23). "Scorecard : Sports Illustrated vault". Vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com. http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1003550/2/index.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-23.
^ "Kristi Yamaguchi | Faces of America". PBS. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/facesofamerica/profiles/kristi-yamaguchi/3/. Retrieved 2010-04-23.
^ "Off-ice advice: Kristi Yamaguchi relies financially on family, friends". Market Watch. 2001-11-12. http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid={9620C364-EF1C-4A97-A28E-5C97255E10BF}&siteid=mktw. Retrieved 2009-01-28.
^ Rutherford, Lynn (April 15, 2012). "Kristi Yamaguchi Looks at The Sport". IFS Magazine. http://www.ifsmagazine.com/articles/32441-kristi-yamaguchi-looks-at-the-sport.
^ "Ability Magazine: Kristi Yamaguchi Interview" (2009)". http://abilitymagazine.com/Kristi_yamaguchi.html. Retrieved 2012-04-03.
^ Yamaguchi, Kristi (2011). Dream Big, Little Pig. Illustrated by Tim Bowers. Sourcebooks Jabberwocky. ISBN 978-1-4022-5275-4. OCLC 662405424.
^ Wengen, Deidre (March 29, 2011). "Figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi turns best-selling children's author". phillyburbs.com. http://www.phillyburbs.com/blogs/book_checked/figure-skater-kristi-yamaguchi-turns-best-selling-children-s-author/article_283149c6-5a0a-11e0-8944-0017a4a78c22.html. Retrieved March 29, 2011.
^ Yamaguchi, Kristi (2012). It's a Big World, Little Pig. Illustrated by Tim Bowers. Sourcebooks Jabberwocky. ISBN 978-1-4022-6644-7. OCLC 747529286.
^ "It's a Big World, Little Pig!". amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/Its-Big-World-Little-Pig/dp/1402266448. Retrieved January 30, 2010.
^ "Faces of America: Kristi Yamaguchi", PBS, Faces of America series, with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 2010.
^ "Kristi Yamaguchi Wins Dancing with the Stars". Pacific Coast News. 2008-05-21. http://pacificcoastnewsonline.com/2008/05/surprise-kristi-yamaguchi-won.html.

References [link]

Nomura, Gail M. (1998). "Japanese American Women," in The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History (Mankiller, Barbara Smith, ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 10-ISBN 0618001824/13-ISBN 9780618001828; OCLC 43338598

External links [link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Kristi Yamaguchi

Yamaguchi's official website
AlwaysDream.org: Yamaguchi's Always Dream Foundation
olympic.org Athlete Profile – Yamaguchi
Kristi Yamaguchi at the Internet Movie Database

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Olympic champions in figure skating – Ladies' singles

World champions in figure skating – Ladies' singles

1906–07: Madge Syers
1908–11: Lily Kronberger
1912–14: Opika von Méray Horváth
1922–26: Herma Szabo
1927–36: Sonja Henie
1937: Cecilia Colledge
1938–39: Megan Taylor
1947–48: Barbara Ann Scott
1949–50: Alena Vrzáňová
1951: Jeannette Altwegg
1952: Jacqueline du Bief
1953: Tenley Albright
1954: Gundi Busch
1955: Tenley Albright
1956–60: Carol Heiss
1962–64: Sjoukje Dijkstra
1965: Petra Burka
1966–68: Peggy Fleming
1969–70: Gabriele Seyfert
1971–72: Trixi Schuba
1973: Karen Magnussen
1974: Christine Errath
1975: Dianne de Leeuw
1976: Dorothy Hamill
1977: Linda Fratianne
1978: Anett Pötzsch
1979: Linda Fratianne
1980: Anett Pötzsch
1981: Denise Biellmann
1982: Elaine Zayak
1983: Rosalynn Sumners
1984–85: Katarina Witt
1986: Debi Thomas
1987–88: Katarina Witt
1989: Midori Ito
1990: Jill Trenary
1991–92: Kristi Yamaguchi
1993: Oksana Baiul
1994: Yuka Sato
1995: Chen Lu
1996: Michelle Kwan
1997: Tara Lipinski
1998: Michelle Kwan
1999: Maria Butyrskaya
2000–01: Michelle Kwan
2002: Irina Slutskaya
2003: Michelle Kwan
2004: Shizuka Arakawa
2005: Irina Slutskaya
2006: Kimmie Meissner
2007: Miki Ando
2008: Mao Asada
2009: Kim Yu-Na
2010: Mao Asada
2011: Miki Ando
2012: Carolina Kostner

v t e United States national champions in figure skating – Ladies' singles

1914: Theresa Weld 1918: Rosemary Beresford 1920–1924: Theresa Weld 1925–1927: Beatrix Loughran 1928–1933: Maribel Vinson 1934: Suzanne Davis 1935–1937: Maribel Vinson 1938–1940: Joan Tozzer 1941–1942: Jane Vaughn 1943–1948: Gretchen Merrill 1949–1950: Yvonne C. Sherman 1951: Sonya Klopfer 1952–1956: Tenley Albright 1957–1960: Carol Heiss 1961: Laurence Owen 1962: Barbara Roles 1963: Lorraine Hanlon 1964–1968: Peggy Fleming 1969–1973: Janet Lynn 1974–1976: Dorothy Hamill 1977–1980: Linda Fratianne 1981: Elaine Zayak 1982–1984: Rosalynn Sumners 1985: Tiffany Chin 1986: Debi Thomas 1987: Jill Trenary 1988: Debi Thomas 1989–1990: Jill Trenary 1991: Tonya Harding 1992: Kristi Yamaguchi 1993: Nancy Kerrigan 1994: None* 1995: Nicole Bobek 1996: Michelle Kwan 1997: Tara Lipinski 1998–2005: Michelle Kwan 2006: Sasha Cohen 2007: Kimmie Meissner 2008: Mirai Nagasu 2009: Alissa Czisny 2010: Rachael Flatt 2011: Alissa Czisny 2012: Ashley Wagner

*Originally awarded to Tonya Harding, but later stripped.

United States national champions in figure skating - Pairs

1914: Jeanne Chevalier & Norman M. Scott
1918: Theresa Weld & Nathaniel Niles
1920-27: Theresa Weld & Nathaniel Niles
1928-29: Maribel Vinson & Thornton Coolidge
1930-32: Beatrix Loughran & Sherwin Badger
1933: Maribel Vinson & George Hill
1934: Grace Madden & J. Lester Madden
1935-37: Maribel Vinson & George Hill
1938-40: Joan Tozzer & Bernard Fox
1941: Donna Atwood & Eugene Turner
1942-44: Doris Schubach & Walter Noffke
1945-46: Donna J. Pospisil & Jean-Pierre Brunet
1947: Yvonne Sherman & Robert Swenning
1948-52: Karol Kennedy & Peter Kennedy
1953-56: Carole Ormaca & Robin Greiner
1957-60: Nancy Ludington & Ronald Ludington
1961: Maribel Owen & Dudley Richards
1962: Dorothyann Nelson & Pieter Kollen
1963-64: Judianne Fotheringill & Jerry Fotheringill
1965: Vivian Joseph & Ronald Joseph
1966-69: Cynthia Kauffman & Ronald Kauffman
1970-72: JoJo Starbuck & Kenneth Shelley
1973: Melissa Militano & Mark Militano
1974-75: Melissa Militano & Johnny Johns
1976-80: Tai Babilonia & Randy Gardner
1981-84: Kitty Carruthers & Peter Carruthers
1985: Jill Watson & Peter Oppegard
1986: Gillian Wachsman & Todd Waggoner
1987-88: Jill Watson & Peter Oppegard
1989-90: Kristi Yamaguchi & Rudy Galindo
1991: Natasha Kuchiki & Todd Sand
1992-93: Calla Urbanski & Rocky Marval
1994-96: Jenni Meno & Todd Sand
1997-98: Kyoko Ina & Jason Dungjen
1999: Danielle Hartsell & Steve Hartsell
2000-02: Kyoko Ina & John Zimmerman
2003: Tiffany Scott & Philip Dulebohn
2004: Rena Inoue & John Baldwin
2005: Katie Orscher & Garrett Lucash
2006: Rena Inoue & John Baldwin
2007: Brooke Castile & Benjamin Okolski
2008-09: Keauna McLaughlin & Rockne Brubaker
2010: Caydee Denney & Jeremy Barrett
2011: Caitlin Yankowskas & John Coughlin
2012: Caydee Denney & John Coughlin

World Junior champions in figure skating – Ladies' singles

World Junior champions in figure skating – Pairs

1976: Sherri Baier & Robin Cowan
1977: Josée France & Paul Mills
1978: Barbara Underhill & Paul Martini
1979: Veronika Pershina & Marat Akbarov
1980–81: Larisa Selezneva & Oleg Makarov
1982–83: Marina Avstriskaia & Yuri Kvashnin
1984: Manuela Landgraf & Ingo Steuer
1985: Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov
1986–87: Elena Leonova & Gennadi Krasnitski
1988: Kristi Yamaguchi & Rudy Galindo
1989: Evgenia Chernisheva & Dmitri Sukhanov
1990–92: Natalia Krestianinova & Alexei Torchinski
1993: Inga Korshunova & Dmitry Saveliev
1994–95: Maria Petrova & Anton Sikharulidze
1996: Victoria Maxiuta & Vladislav Zhovnirski
1997: Danielle Hartsell & Steve Hartsell
1998–99: Julia Obertas & Dmitri Palamarchuk
2000: Aliona Savchenko & Stanislav Morozov
2001: Zhang Dan & Zhang Hao
2002: Elena Riabchuk & Stanislav Zakarov
2003: Zhang Dan & Zhang Hao
2004: Natalia Shestakova & Pavel Lebedev
2005: Maria Mukhortova & Maxim Trankov
2006: Julia Vlassov & Drew Meekins
2007: Keauna McLaughlin & Rockne Brubaker
2008: Ksenia Krasilnikova & Konstantin Bezmaternikh
2009: Lubov Iliushechkina & Nodari Maisuradze
2010-12: Sui Wenjing & Han Cong

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Kristi Yamaguchi Jason Taylor Cristián de la Fuente Marissa Jaret Winokur Mario Shannon Elizabeth Marlee Matlin Priscilla Presley Adam Carolla Steve Guttenberg Monica Seles Penn Jillette

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Name	Yamaguchi, Kristi
Alternative names
Short description	American figure skater
Date of birth	1971-07-12
Place of birth	Hayward, California, U.S.
Date of death
Place of death

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Mark Ballas
Birth name	Mark Alexander Ballas, Jr.
Born	(1986-05-24) May 24, 1986 (age 26) Houston, Texas, USA
Genres	Pop/Rock
Occupations	Singer, dancer, guitarist
Years active	1999–present
Labels	Hit Play-Sony Red
Associated acts	Julianne Hough Derek Hough
Website	Official Site

Mark Alexander Ballas Jr. (born May 24, 1986)^[1] is an American dancer.

Ballas is a professional ballroom dancer on the ABC program Dancing with the Stars. He began competing on the show in the fall of 2007. He was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Choreography in 2011. He is also a singer/songwriter/musician and released his first solo CD HurtLoveBox in March 2011.

1 Early life
2 Career
3 Dancing with the Stars performances
4 Music
5 References
6 External links

Early life [link]

Ballas was born in Houston, Texas, the son of dancers Corky Ballas^[2] and Shirley Ballas (née Rich).^[3] His paternal grandparents were of Mexican, Spanish, and Greek background, and his mother is British.^[4]^{[citation needed]} His paternal grandfather, George Ballas, was the inventor of the Weed Eater lawn-trimming device.^[5]

Ballas attended Rosemead Preparatory school in South London, and was in the same year as acclaimed British ballet dancer Max Westwell of the English National Ballet.

At the age of 11, he earned a full time slot at the Academy, as well as earning a full scholarship to the college. In 2005, he was awarded "Performer of the Year". He then moved on to win championships at The British Open to the World, The US Open to the World and The International Open to the World. With his former partner Julianne Hough, he won the Junior Latin American Dance Championship and the gold medal at the Junior Olympics.^{[disambiguation needed ]}^{[citation needed]}

As a youth, Ballas was a member of a pop singing trio called "2B1G"(2 Boys 1 Girl"), along with Julianne Hough and Derek Hough.^{[citation needed]} His mother is award-winning Latin American Dancer Shirly Ballas recently featured on Dancing with the Stars.

Career [link]

Acting [link]

As an actor, Ballas played the lead role of Tony in the musical Copacabana and was the lead dancer in the UK national tour of the Spanish musical Maria de Buenos Aires. He was also the understudy for the role of Ritchie Valens in the UK national tour of Buddy, The Buddy Holly Story. Ballas played an extra in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone as part of the Hufflepuff House. In October 2008, Ballas made a guest appearance on the season premiere of Samantha Who.^[6] In September 2010, Ballas had a guest appearance on his former Dancing with the Stars partner Melissa Joan Hart's new series, Melissa & Joey.

[edit] Dancing with the Stars

On the fifth season of Dancing with the Stars, Ballas was partnered with Cheetah Girls star Sabrina Bryan. On October 30, 2007, the pair was voted off the show. They have been the only couple invited back for an exhibition dance. Ballas' partner for Season 6 of Dancing With The Stars was Olympic Gold Medal-winning figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi. They won the series. On August 25, 2008, ABC announced the cast of the seventh season of Dancing with the Stars, with Ballas paired with reality television star Kim Kardashian. They were the third couple eliminated, finishing in eleventh place, on September 30, 2008. For the eighth season of Dancing with the Stars, Ballas was paired with Olympic gold-medal winning gymnast Shawn Johnson, winning that season's competition on May 19, 2009. He was partnered with actress Melissa Joan Hart for the show's ninth season. They were voted off in week six and came in 9th place. For season 10, Ballas was partnered with actress Shannen Doherty.^[7] They were the first couple eliminated, on March 30, 2010. For season 11, Ballas was partnered with Bristol Palin, daughter of former Alaska governor and U.S. Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. They made it to the finale and finished in third place. For Season 12, Ballas was partnered with Disney Channel star, Chelsea Kane. They made it to the finals where they finished in third place. For Season 13, Ballas was partnered with reality star Kristin Cavallari where they were the 3rd couple eliminated finishing in 10th place. For Season 14 he was partnered with Classical Singer Katherine Jenkins. They made it to the finale where they finished as the runners-up, losing to Donald Driver & Peta Murgatroyd.

Season	Partner	Place
5	Sabrina Bryan	7th
6	Kristi Yamaguchi	1st
7	Kim Kardashian	91 !11th
8	Shawn Johnson	1st
9	Melissa Joan Hart	89 !9th
10	Shannen Doherty	91 !11th
11	Bristol Palin	3rd
12	Chelsea Kane	3rd
13	Kristin Cavallari	90 !10th
14	Katherine Jenkins	2nd

[edit] Records

In his time on Dancing with the Stars (DWTS) Ballas has set, and broken, numerous records in the course of his (so far) 10 seasons. Some of these records include, but are not limited to:

Earliest perfect 30 in a season, during Week 4, with Sabrina Bryan for their Paso Doble.
- This record is later tied by Gilles Marini and Cheryl Burke in Season 8.
First (and only) professional partner to earn a perfect score (90) in the DWTS Finale, with his celebrity partner Kristi Yamaguchi in Season 6.
- Ballas tied this record in Season 14 with his partner Katherine Jenkins.
First male professional to win multiple seasons, once with Kristi Yamaguchi and once with Shawn Johnson.
Only male professional to get the same place in the finals (Third Place; with Bristol Palin and Chelsea Kane) twice in a row, without winning the season.
Most perfect 30s on the Freestyle dance, with 4. Earning perfect scores with Kristi Yamaguchi, Shawn Johnson, Chelsea Kane, and Katherine Jenkins.

Dancing with the Stars performances [link]

[edit] With celebrity partner Sabrina Bryan (average: 27.0):

Week #	Dance/Song	Judges' score			Result
Week #	Dance/Song	Inaba	Goodman	Tonioli	Result
1	Cha-Cha-Cha / "Don't Cha"	9	8	9	Safe
2	Quickstep / "They're Red Hot"	9	8	9	Safe
3	Jive / "Shake, Rattle and Roll"	9	9	9	Safe
4	Paso Doble / "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)"	10	10	10	Safe
5	Rumba / "Me and Mrs. Jones"	9	9	10	Safe
6	Foxtrot / "I'm a Woman" Rock N' Roll / "Rockin' Robin"	9 No	8 Scores	8 Given	Eliminated

[edit] With celebrity partner Kristi Yamaguchi (average: 28.3):

Week #	Dance/Song	Judges' score			Result
Week #	Dance/Song	Inaba	Goodman	Tonioli	Result
1	Foxtrot / "The More I See You"	9	9	9	No Elimination
2	Mambo / "Hey Baby"	9	9	9	Safe
3	Tango / "Rio"	9	9	9	Safe
4	Paso Doble / "Blue Monday"	10	9	10	Safe
5	Rumba / "Say"	9	10	10	Safe
6	Jive / "Rip It Up" Country Western / "Cotton-Eyed Joe"	10 No	10 Scores	10 Given	Safe
7	Viennese Waltz / "I'm with You" Cha-Cha-Cha / "Don't Stop the Music"	9 10	8 8	9 10	Safe
8	Quickstep / "Billy A Dick" Samba / "Volare"	9 8	10 9	10 9	Safe
9 Semi-finals	Tango / "Midnight Tango" Jive / "Nutbush City Limits"	10 9	9 9	10 10	Safe
10 Finals	Cha-Cha-Cha / "Dancing on the Ceiling" Freestyle / "Workin' Day and Night" Jive / "Rip It Up"	10 10 10	10 10 10	10 10 10	WON

[edit] With celebrity partner Kim Kardashian (average: 18.0):

Week #	Dance/Song	Judges' score			Result
Week #	Dance/Song	Inaba	Goodman	Tonioli	Result
1	Foxtrot / "The Pink Panther Theme"	6	7	6	Last To Be Called Safe
1	Mambo / "Baby Got Back"	6	6	6	Safe
2	Rumba / "You Give Me Something"	6	6	5	Eliminated

[edit] With celebrity partner Shawn Johnson (average: 26.94):

Week #	Dance/Song	Judges' score			Result
Week #	Dance/Song	Inaba	Goodman	Tonioli	Result
1	Waltz / "It is You (I Have Loved)"	8	8	7	No Elimination
2	Salsa / "Las Muchachas"	8	8	8	Safe
3	Foxtrot / "More Than This"	9	9	9	Safe
4	Lindy Hop / "Ready Teddy"	8	8	9	Safe
5	Viennese Waltz / "Ordinary Day"	9	8	9	Safe
6	Rumba / "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room"	8	9	9	Safe
7	Cha-Cha-Cha / "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" 1960's Group Dance / "The Clapping Song"	9 No	9 Scores	10 Given	Safe
8	Samba / "Get Down on It" Team Mambo / "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"	10 8	8 8	9 9	Safe
9 Quarter-Finals	Quickstep / "Friend Like Me" Paso Doble / "Gotta Get thru This"	9 10	9 9	9 10	Safe
10 Semi-Finals	Argentine Tango / "Asi Se Baila El Tango" Jive / "Reet Petite"	10 9	10 8	10 9	Safe
11 Finals	Paso Doble / "So What" Freestyle / "Do Your Thing" Cha-Cha-Cha / "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)"	9 10 10	9 10 10	10 10 10	WON

[edit] With celebrity partner Melissa Joan Hart (average: 21.2):

Week #	Dance/Song	Judges' score			Result
Week #	Dance/Song	Inaba	Goodman	Tonioli	Result
1	Viennese Waltz / "The Time of My Life" Cha-Cha-Cha Relay / "Centerfold"	6 Awarded	6 6	6 Points	Safe
2	Jive / "Long Tall Sally"	7	6*	6	Safe
3	Samba / "Turn Me On"	6	6	7	Safe
4	Charleston / "Charleston"	9	9	10	Safe
5	Argentine Tango / "Tango Barbaro"	8	8	7	Safe
6	Waltz / "Only One Road" Mambo Marathon / "Ran Kan Kan"	7 Awarded	7 4	6 Points	Eliminated

Due to Len Goodman's absence in week 2 the 6 was awarded by stand-in guest judge Baz Luhrmann.

[edit] With celebrity partner Shannen Doherty (average: 19.0):

Week #	Dance/Song	Judges' score			Result
Week #	Dance/Song	Inaba	Goodman	Tonioli	Result
1	Viennese Waltz / "The Killing Moon"	6	6	6	No Elimination
2	Jive / "Shake a Tail Feather"	7	6	7	Eliminated

[edit] With celebrity partner Bristol Palin (average: 22.6):

Week #	Dance/Song	Judges' score			Result
Week #	Dance/Song	Inaba	Goodman	Tonioli	Result
1	Cha-Cha-Cha / "Mama Told Me (Not to Come)"	6	6	6	Safe
2	Quickstep / "You Can't Hurry Love"	7	8	7	Safe
3	Foxtrot / "Just the Way You Are"	6	6	7	Last To Be Called Safe
4	Rumba / "Umbrella"	6/4	6/5	6/5	Last To Be Called Safe
5	Jive / "(Theme From) The Monkees"	6	6	6	Safe
6	Tango / "According To You" Rock 'n Roll / "La Grange"	8 Awarded	7 5	8 Points	Safe
7	Viennese Waltz / "Trouble" Team Cha-Cha-Cha / "Workin' Day and Night"	9/8 8	8 8	8 8	Safe
8	Argentine Tango / "Buttons" Samba / "Mas Que Nada"	8 7	8 8	8 8	Safe
9	Paso Doble / "Gimme More" Waltz / "Mary Goes To Jesus"	9 8	9 9	9 9	Last To Be Called Safe
10	Jive / "Move" Freestyle / "Cell Block Tango" Tango / "According to You" Cha-Cha-Cha / "Raise Your Glass"	9 8 8 9	9 9 9 9	9 8 8 9	THIRD PLACE

[edit] With celebrity partner: Chelsea Kane (average: 26.13)

Week #	Dance/Song	Judges' score			Result
Week #	Dance/Song	Inaba	Goodman	Tonioli	Result
1	Foxtrot / "King of Anything"	7	7	7	No Elimination
2	Jive / "I Write Sins Not Tragedies"	6	5	7	Safe
3	Cha-Cha-Cha / "Chelsea"	7	8	8	Safe
4	Viennese Waltz / "Hedwig's Theme"	9	8	9	Last To Be Called Safe
5	Samba / "Party in the U.S.A."	9	8	9	Safe
6	Quickstep / "Walking on Sunshine"	10	9	9	Safe
7	Paso Doble / "Ghosts 'n' Stuff" Team Cha-Cha-Cha / "Born this Way"	8/9 8/8	8 7	9 7	Last To Be Called Safe
8	Waltz / "My Love" Salsa / "Get Busy"	10 8	9 9	10 9	Safe
9	Argentine Tango / "Assassin's Tango" Rumba / "Eyes on Fire" Cha-Cha-Cha / "Just Dance"	9 10 Awarded	9 10 15	10 10 points	Safe
10	Samba / "Hip Hip Chin Chin" Freestyle / "Latinos" Viennese Waltz / "Hedwig's Theme"	10 10 10	9 10 10	10 10 10	THIRD PLACE

*In week 7 Donnie Burns score is right before Inaba's

[edit] With celebrity partner: Kristin Cavallari (average: 21.6)

Week #	Dance/Song	Judges' score			Result
Week #	Dance/Song	Inaba	Goodman	Tonioli	Result
1	Cha-Cha-Cha / "Dynamite"	7	6	6	Safe
2	Quickstep / "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend"	8	7	7	Safe
3	Samba / "Crazy in Love"	8	8	8	Eliminated

[edit] With celebrity partner: Katherine Jenkins (average: 27.9)

Week #	Dance/Song	Judges' score			Result
Week #	Dance/Song	Inaba	Goodman	Tonioli	Result
1	Foxtrot / "The Show"	9	8	9	No Elimination
2	Jive / "Ain't Nothing Wrong With That"	9	8	9	Safe
3	Waltz / "To Where You Are"	10	9	10	Safe
4	Paso Doble / "Time Is Running Out"	8	8	8	Safe
5	Argentine Tango / "Tanguedia II"	10	9	10	Safe
6	Samba / "I Can't Get Next to You" Motown Marathon / "Nowhere to Run"	10 Awarded	9 10	10 Points	Safe
7	Rumba / "Canon in D Major" Team Tango / "Toccata"	9 10	9 8	9 9	Safe
8	Viennese Waltz / "Kathleen" Cha-Cha-Cha (Trio Challenge) / "She's a Lady"	8 10	9 9	9 10	Last To Be Called Safe
9	Quickstep / "The Dirty Boogie" Salsa / "Bananza (Belly Dancer)"	10 9	9 9	10 9	Safe
10	Paso Doble / "España Cañí" Freestyle / "Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)" Jive / "Splish Splash"	10 10 10	10 10 10	10 10 10	RUNNER UP

Music [link]

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He began playing the guitar at age of 4, and at 12 began to write and perform his own music, playing guitar, drums, and bass. The Hough siblings and Ballas formed a pop music trio called 2B1G (2 Boys 1 Girl). With his friend Derek Hough, he formed the band Almost Amy, the name of which was later changed to the Ballas Hough Band. The other members of the band are singer Emily Grace, who plays flute, saxophone, and piano; Sam Marder, who plays bass; and Harry Sullivan, who plays drums.

References [link]

^ Texas birth record
^ http://www.corky.com/bio.html
^ http://www.shirley-ballas.com/about_shirley.html
^ http://www.incdef.com/neo%27s%20hollywood%20corner/lalaland/column-26.html
^ Wozny, Nancy. "H-Town's Own Dance Man: Mark Ballas opens up on the naive miracle of Bristol Palin & his John Mayer ways", CultureMap Houston, December 13, 2010. WebCitation archive.
^ [1] Samantha Who
^ Boedeker, Hal (March 2, 2010). "'Dancing With the Stars': Shannen Doherty pairs with Mark Ballas; Kate Gosselin with Tony Dovolani". Orlando Sentinel. http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2010/03/dancing-with-the-stars-shannen-doherty-pairs-with-mark-ballas-kate-gosselin-with-tony-dovolani.html.

External links [link]

http://almost-amy-band.blogspot.com/

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Hélio Castroneves & Julianne Hough Brooke Burke & Derek Hough	Dancing with the Stars (US) winner Season 6 (Spring 2008 with Kristi Yamaguchi) Season 8 (Spring 2009 with Shawn Johnson)	Succeeded by Brooke Burke & Derek Hough Donny Osmond & Kym Johnson
Preceded by Rob Kardashian & Cheryl Burke	Dancing with the Stars (US) runner up Season 14 (Spring 2012 with Katherine Jenkins)	Succeeded by current
Preceded by Erin Andrews & Maksim Chmerkovskiy	Dancing with the Stars (US) third place contestant Season 11 (Fall 2010 with Bristol Palin) Season 12 (Spring 2011 with Chelsea Kane)	Succeeded by Ricki Lake & Derek Hough

Persondata
Name	Ballas, Mark
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	May 24, 1986
Place of birth	Houston, Texas, USA
Date of death
Place of death

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[edit] Records

[edit] With celebrity partner Sabrina Bryan (average: 27.0):

[edit] With celebrity partner Kristi Yamaguchi (average: 28.3):

[edit] With celebrity partner Kim Kardashian (average: 18.0):

[edit] With celebrity partner Shawn Johnson (average: 26.94):

[edit] With celebrity partner Melissa Joan Hart (average: 21.2):

[edit] With celebrity partner Shannen Doherty (average: 19.0):

[edit] With celebrity partner Bristol Palin (average: 22.6):

[edit] With celebrity partner: Chelsea Kane (average: 26.13)

[edit] With celebrity partner: Kristin Cavallari (average: 21.6)

[edit] With celebrity partner: Katherine Jenkins (average: 27.9)

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