Emily Hughes

Emily Hughes
nation	United States
birthday	26th January 1989 (age 31)
place of birth	Great Neck (New York)
Career
society	The SC of New York, Inc.
Trainer	Bonni Retzkin
status	active

Emily Hughes (born January 26, 1989 in Great Neck , Long Island , NY ) is an American figure skater .

Career

Emily Hughes is the younger sister of the 2002 Olympic champion Sarah Hughes (* 1985). She has four other siblings.

She started figure skating at the age of three. After a few difficulties in the junior area (11th in the years 2002 and 2003 in the national championships ), she took a break, whereupon she did not qualify for the US championships in 2004 .

Their rise began in 2005. She won bronze at the World Championships of the juniors . The following year she was subsequently given a starting place at the Winter Olympics in Turin after the injured Michelle Kwan had withdrawn, and was seventh.

Emily skates for The SC of New York, Inc., and is coached by Bonni Retzkin .

Successes / results

winter Olympics

• 2006 : 7th place

World championships

• 2006 : 8th place
• 2007 : 9th place

USA Championships (Seniors)

• 2005 : 6th place
• 2006 : 3rd place
• 2007 : 2nd place

USA Championships (Juniors)

• 2000 : 10th place
• 2002 : 11th place
• 2003 : 11th place
• 2004 : not qualified

Junior World Championships

• 2005 : 3rd place

Four continents championships

• 2007 : 2nd place

Web links

Commons : Emily Hughes  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• http://www.usfigureskating.org
• http://www.usatoday.com
• http://figureskating.about.com/od/famousfemaleiceskaters/p/ehughes.htm