Cynthia Kauffman
Cynthia Kauffman 
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| Full name | Cynthia Diane Kauffman | ||||||||||||
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 United States
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| birthday | August 23, 1948 | ||||||||||||
| place of birth | Seattle, Washington | ||||||||||||
| size | 160 cm | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 49 kg | ||||||||||||
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| discipline | Pair skating | ||||||||||||
| Partner | Ronald Kauffman | ||||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||||
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Cynthia Diane Kauffman (born August 23, 1948 in Seattle , Washington ) is a former American figure skater who started pair skating .
Together with her older brother Ronald Kauffman , she was US pair skating champion from 1966 to 1969 . The couple competed in world championships from 1964 to 1969 . They won the bronze medal at the World Championships in Davos in 1966 , in Vienna in 1967 and in Geneva in 1968 , always when Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov from the Soviet Union won . The Kauffmanns played two Olympic Games . They finished eighth in Innsbruck in 1964 and sixth in Grenoble in 1968 . They were the first couple to show a litter axel .
Results
Pair skating
(with Ronald Kauffman )
| Competition / year | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 |
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| winter Olympics | 8th. | 6th | ||||
| World championships | 7th | 6th | 3. | 3. | 3. | 4th |
| American championships | 3. | 2. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. |
Web links
- Cynthia Kauffman in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Kauffman, Cynthia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kauffmann, Cynthia Diane (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American figure skater |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 23, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seattle , Washington |