Caitlin Carruthers 
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nation
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United States United States
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birthday
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May 30, 1961
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place of birth
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Boston
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size
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152 cm
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Weight
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44 kg
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| Career
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discipline
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Pair skating
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Partner
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Peter Carruthers
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society
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SC of Wilmington
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Trainer
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Ronald Ludington
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status
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resigned
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| Medal table
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| Olympic medals
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1 × 
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| World Cup medals
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0 × 
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1 × 
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Caitlin "Kitty" Carruthers (born May 30, 1961 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is a former American figure skater who started pair skating .
Caitlin Carruthers' figure skating partner was her brother Peter Carruthers . Both had been adopted. Her trainer was Ronald Ludington . They made their international debut in 1980. As national runners-up behind Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner , they finished the Olympic Games in Lake Placid in fifth place and the World Championships in Dortmund in seventh place. They were the best American couple in the Olympics as Babilonia and Gardner were unable to compete due to an injury. From 1981 to 1984, the siblings were US champions in pair skating , becoming the direct successor to Babilonia and Gardner. In 1982 in Copenhagen they won their only world championship medal with bronze behind Sabine Baeß and Tassilo Thierbach as well as Marina Pestowa and Stanislaw Leonowitsch . The greatest success of Caitlin and Peter Carruthers, however, was winning the silver medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Sarajevo behind Jelena Walowa and Oleg Wassiljew from the Soviet Union . After that, they ended their amateur careers, switched to professionals and appeared in ice revues.
Results
Pair skating
(with Peter Carruthers )
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