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Caroline Zhang - Wikipedia  Caroline Zhao Zhang (born May 20, 1993) is an American figure skater. She is a two-time (2010 and 2012) Four Continents bronze medalist, the 2007 World Junior Champion, the 2006 Junior Grand Prix Final champion, ... Zhang began started taking skating lessons at age five. ... Li Mingzhu became her coach in 2005.
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Mao Asada - Wikipedia  Mao Asada is a Japanese competitive figure skater. She is the 2010 Olympic silver medalist, a three-time World champion (2008, ... She currently holds the world record for the ladies' short program score. A former ... Her sister Mai Asada (two years older) is also a figure skater and finished 6th at the 2006 Four Continents...
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Mirai Nagasu - Wikipedia  Mirai Aileen Nagasu is an American figure skater. She is a two-time Four Continents medalist .... Nagasu won the title overall by 2.43 points ahead of silver medalist Flatt. ... She also became the second-youngest American senior ladies champion in ... Skating Union's age criteria to compete at the World Championships.
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Irina Slutskaya - Wikipedia  Irina Eduardovna Slutskaya is a Russian figure skater. She is a two-time World champion (2002 ... Total, 14, 9, 5 ... After winning the 1995 World Junior title in November 1994 in Budapest, she ... 2001 World Championships, in the free skating, she became the first woman to land a 3S-3Lo-2T combination. ..... 10 April 2007.
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Figure skating - Wikipedia  Figure skating is a sport and activity in which individuals, duos, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport included in the Olympics, in 1908. The four Olympic disciplines are men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, ... These include the Winter Olympics, the World Championships, the World Junior...
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'88 WINTER OLYMPICS - A Giddy Witt Is All Smiles After Figure ...  Published: February 29, 1988 ... For Witt, the Olympic gold medalist a second consecutive time, the tragedy ... At the end of her freestyle figure-skating program she feigned a ... She had trouble finishing sentences, both in English and German, and ... to be the first repeat female gold medal winner since Sonja Henie won in...
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Tenley Albright | American figure skater | Britannica.com  American figure skater and first American woman to win the world ... She was also the first to win the world,. ... Alternative Title: Tenley Emma Albright ... mark on the sport when she won five straight U.S. women's championships (1952 through...
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Oksana Baiul - Ice Skater, Athlete - Biography.com  Aug 22, 2016 ... Ukrainian athlete Oksana Baiul won the 1994 Olympic gold in women's figure skating. ... She began ice-skating when she was 4 years old and was orphaned at the ... Her skating coach, Galina Zmievskaya, took her in and became a ... In 1993, Baiul won both the World Figure Skating Championships and...
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Tonya Harding - Wikipedia  Tonya Maxene Harding (born November 12, 1970) is an American former 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 ... In 1994, she was banned for life from the U.S. Figure Skating Association and pleaded...
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Katarina Witt | German figure skater | Britannica.com  German figure skater who was the first woman to win consecutive Olympic gold medals (1984 and 1988) in singles figure skating since Sonja Henie in 1936. ... She practiced with Jutta Mller, one of the world's premier figure-skating ... In figure skating Katarina Witt (East Germany) retained her title in the women's event.
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Start Figure Skating - Go Figure Skating  Too old to get started as a competitive figure skater? ... Michael Weiss started figure skating at age 9. Michael is a 3 Time U.S. National Champion, 2 time world bronze medallist, and a ... He is the first American man to land a quad toe loop in competition and also the first American to land a quad toe loop in a short program.
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United States Takes Home Three Medals at ... - US Figure Skating  Mar 25, 2016 ... The last U.S. ladies medal at a World Championships came in 2006 ... It was the two-time and reigning U.S. champion's fourth consecutive trip to Worlds. ... She earned a season-best score for the free skate en route to a total of ... Her country mate, Anna Pogorilaya, won the bronze medal with 213.69 points.
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The 10 Greatest Figure Skaters Who Never Won an Olympic Medal  Mar 5, 2012 ... Kathy is a former competitive figure skater, Sarah is a repository of ... won Olympic gold, before Michelle Kwan won nine U.S. Championships, five ... she retired from skating after failing to qualify for the 1987 World .... Their performance at the 1992 Olympics  at which the pairs event was still dominated by...
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The 15 Most Unforgettable US Olympic Figure Skating Performances  Feb 6, 2014 ... No American woman had won a gold medal in figure skating until Tenley Albright in Italy. ... The Tales of Hoffmann, earned her America's first women's gold. ... entire US delegation to the world figure skating championships still fresh, ... the first Asian-American woman to win a national figure skating title,...
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Midori Ito - Wikipedia  Midori Ito or Midori It is a Japanese former figure skater. She is the 1989 World champion and the 1992 Olympic silver medalist. She is the first woman to land a triple-triple jump combination and a triple axel in competition. At the 1988 Calgary Olympics, she became the first woman to land seven ... Her win at the 1989 World Championships was the first world title in the sport...
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The Swan - 1993 Ladies World Figure Skating Champion ... - Pinterest  The Swan - 1994 Ladies Figure Skating Olympic Champion, Oksana Baiul. the way she mugs ... and 1994 Ladies Figure Skating Olympic Champion, Oksana Baiul (Ukraine). ... To this day she is the only skater to ever do this - not the only female figure ...... In 1984, Mary Lou Retton became the first female gymnast to win the...
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Irina Slutskaya - Wikipedia  Irina Eduardovna Slutskaya is a Russian figure skater. She is a two-time World champion (2002 .... After defeating Kwan to win Skate Canada International, she took her fourth European ... Suguri and Michelle Kwan, in theory Slutskaya could place second to Kwan in the free ..... Archived from the original on 16 March 2009.
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Tara Lipinski | American figure skater | Britannica.com  Lipinski planned for Olympic gold for most of her life. ... years, and when her family moved to Houston in 1991 she focused on that sport. ... Later that month she won her first professional competition, Skate TV, with a perfect score of all 10s. ... Winning her first world title at the age of 14, she was the youngest champion until...
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January 16, 1982 - Beth Heiden grief has Docter wary | Chicago ...  Jan 16, 1982 ... She was 16 during the Lake Placid Olympics, asd wherever Beth went, ... She saw her heroine crushed by the that a bronze medal in ... as dominant among women skaters as her brother, Eric, was among the men. ... Sure, she d like to be a world champion-that s even harder than winning one Olympic race.
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Olympic Sports S-Z.vp - Salem Press  Her sister-in-law Anett Ptzsch was a figure skater who won the Olympic gold ... Katarina Witt, two-time Olympic gold medalist, in 1988. (AP/ ... She also did.
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Tara Lipinski - Wikipedia  Tara Kristen Lipinski (born June 10, 1982) is an American figure skater, actress, and sports commentator. A former competitor in ladies' singles, she is the 1998 Olympic champion, the 1997 World champion, a two-time Champions Series Final champion (19971998), and the 1997 U.S. ... In early 1997, Lipinski unexpectedly won the U.S. Championships and, at 14,...