Benjamin Agosto
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Full name | Benjamin Alexandro Agosto | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
nation | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | January 15, 1982 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Chicago, Illinois | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 175 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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discipline | Ice dance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Partner | Tanith Belbin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Former partner | Katharine Hill | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
society | Arctic FSC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trainer | Natalja Linitschuk, Gennady Karponosov, Igor Schpilband, Marina Sujewa, Elizabeth Coates |
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choreographer | Natalja Linitschuk, Igor Schpilband, JT Hornstein |
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status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
End of career | 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Benjamin Alexandro Agosto (born January 15, 1982 in Chicago , Illinois ) is a retired American figure skater who started in ice dancing .
Career
Agosto is the son of a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother with roots from Romania and Russia. He started ice skating at the age of six after being given a pair of ice skates on his birthday. From 1995 to 1998 he started ice dancing with Katharine Hill. In 1998 he moved from Chicago to Detroit to train with Igor Schpilband . This brought him together with his new ice dance partner Tanith Belbin . The couple started for the Arctic FSC Club in Canton, Michigan .
In 2000, the reigning US junior champions Belbin and Agosto made their debut at the Junior World Championships and won the bronze medal. In 2001 they made their debut at the US Senior Championships and immediately won the silver medal. This success gave them their senior world championship debut, which they finished in 17th place. Previously, they had won the silver medal in their second Junior World Championship participation. In 2002, Belbin and Agosto won the silver medal at the national championships and would have qualified for the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City , but the Canadian-born Tanith Belbin was not yet a US citizen at that time. For this they took part in all other competitions for which they were eligible. In Hamar , Norway , they became junior world champions , thus completing their set of medals at junior world championships. They won the silver medal on their debut at the Four Continents Championships . They succeeded in doing this again the following year.
In 2004 Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto became US champions for the first time . They defended this title until 2008. At the championships in 2005, the last one where the 6.0 rating system was used, they only received top marks for the presentation of their freestyle. Of the 30 6.0 ratings given at U.S. Ice Dance Championships, 14 go to her account. In Hamilton , Canada , they won the gold medal at the Four Continents Championships in 2004 . They defended this title in Gangneung in 2005 and in Colorado Springs in 2006 . At the 2005 World Championships in Moscow , Belbin and Agosto won their first World Championship medal with silver, and it was also the first World Championship medal for the USA in ice dancing in 20 years. This sometimes led to the USA having three starting places at the Olympic Games in ice dancing for the first time since 1984. Tanith Belbin became a US citizen through a special bill of Congress approved December 28, 2005 and signed by President George W. Bush on New Year's Eve . Thus participation in the Olympic Games in Turin was guaranteed. There Belbin and Agosto won the silver medal behind the Russians Tatiana Nawka and Roman Kostomarow . It was the first Olympic medal for a US ice dance couple since the 1976 Olympics when Colleen O'Connor and James Millns won the bronze medal. At the subsequent World Championship , Belbin and Agosto won bronze, and this result was repeated the following year .
After a disappointing fourth place at the 2008 World Cup , the ice dance couple changed coaches and now worked with Natalja Linitschuk and Gennady Karponosov in Aston, Pennsylvania . Belbin and Agosto won their last World Cup medal in Los Angeles in 2009 with silver, just behind the Russians Oxana Domnina and Maxim Schabalin . At the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver they missed a medal as fourth. On June 10, 2010, they announced their retirement from competitive sports.
Results
Ice dance
(with Tanith Belbin )
Competition / year | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | |||
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winter Olympics | 2. | 4th | ||||||||||||
World championships | 17th | 13. | 7th | 5. | 2. | 3. | 3. | 4th | 2. | |||||
Four continents championships | 2. | 2. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 2. | ||||||||
World Team Trophy | 1. | |||||||||||||
Junior World Championships | 3. | 2. | 1. | |||||||||||
American championships | 1st J | 2. | 2. | 2. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. | Z | 2. | |||
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Grand Prix competition / season | 99/00 | 00/01 | 01/02 | 02/03 | 03/04 | 04/05 | 05/06 | 06/07 | 07/08 | 08/09 | 09/10 | |||
Grand Prix Final | 3. | 2. | Z | 2. | Z | Z | ||||||||
Skate America | 5. | 3. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 2. | 1. | ||||||
Cup of Russia | 2. | 1. | ||||||||||||
Cup of China | 1. | 2. | 1. | 2. | 1. | |||||||||
Trophée Lalique | 6th | 3. | 4th |
- Z = withdrawn; J = juniors
Web links
- Benjamin Agosto in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
- Benjamin Agosto in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Official website
- Profile at USFSA
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SURNAME | Agosto, Benjamin |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Agosto, Benjamin Alexandro (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American figure skater |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1982 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois , United States |