Jill Watson

Jill Watson
Full name	Jill Marilynn Watson
nation	United States
birthday	March 29, 1963
place of birth	Bloomington, Indiana
size	150 cm
Weight	42 kg
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	Burt Lancon, Peter Oppegard
society	LAFSC
status	resigned
End of career	1988
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze Calgary 1988 Couples  World figure skating championships bronze Cincinnati 1987 Couples

Jill Marilynn Watson (born March 29, 1963 in Bloomington , Indiana ) is a former American figure skater who started in pair skating .

First she started pair skating alongside Burt Lancon . With him she finished sixth at the 1984 Olympic Games .

From 1985 Peter Oppegard became her figure skating partner . In 1985, 1987 and 1988 they became US champions . In the period from 1985 to 1988 they took part in world championships . They won their only world championship medal with bronze in 1987 in Cincinnati behind the Soviet couples Yekaterina Gordejewa and Sergei Grinkow as well as Jelena Walowa and Oleg Wassiljew . The same result achieved Oppegard and Watson at the 1988 Olympic Games in Calgary.

Watson now works as a trainer. For five years she trained Rena Inoue and John Baldwin .

Results

Pair skating

(with Burt Lancon )

Competition / year	1983	1984
winter Olympics		6th
World championships	11.	Z
American championships	3.	3.

• Z = withdrawn

(with Peter Oppegard )

Competition / year	1985	1986	1987	1988
winter Olympics				3.
World championships	4th	6th	3.	6th
American championships	1.	2.	1.	1.

Web links

• Jill Watson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )