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After the 1980 season, Fratianne retired from competitive skating and performed in touring shows, including ten years as a lead skater of Disney on Ice. In 1993, she was inducted into the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame. [6] Fratianne was known for "cementing the importance of triple jumps in [women's] skating."
The following is a list of notable figure skaters who have competed in women's singles.These are skaters who have won a gold, silver, or bronze medal at at least one of the following competitions: the Winter Olympics, the World Figure Skating Championships, the European Figure Skating Championships, the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, the Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final, the ...
Witt landed three triple jumps in her free skate program, and the judges left room for Sumners to win the event. Sumners scaled back two of her jumps and Witt won the long program by one-tenth of a point on one judge's scorecard. Witt won the gold medal aged 18 years and 77 days, becoming one of the youngest Olympic figure skating champions.
Figure skating at the XIII Winter Olympics; Type: Olympic Games: Champions; Men's singles: Robin Cousins: Ladies' singles: Anett Pötzsch: Pairs: Irina Rodnina / Alexander Zaitsev: Ice dance: Natalia Linichuk / Gennadi Karponossov
Katarina Witt from East Germany won the 1988 women's singles gold medal, becoming the second female figure skater in history to win back-to-back Olympic titles. Yuna Kim of South Korea won the women's singles event in 2010 with world record scores in the short program, free skating, and combined total.
Rosalynn Diane Sumners (born April 20, 1964) is an American former competitive 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).
Ekaterina "Katia" Alexandrovna Gordeeva (Russian: Екатерина Александровна Гордеева; born 28 May 1971) [1] is a Russian figure skater.With her late husband Sergei Grinkov, she is the 1988 and 1994 Olympic Champion, a four-time World Champion (1986, 1987, 1989, 1990), a three-time European Champion (1988, 1990, 1994), the 1990 Goodwill Games champion, 1987 Soviet ...
At the age of 15, she was the second female skater to land the triple Lutz jump in competition,after Jill Sawyer, which she performed for the first time at the 1978 European Championships. [3] 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. [3]