Jenni Meno
Jenni Meno 
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| birthday | November 19, 1970 | ||||||||||||
| place of birth | Westlake, Ohio | ||||||||||||
| size | 152 cm | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 44 kg | ||||||||||||
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| discipline | Pair skating | ||||||||||||
| Partner | Scott Wendland, Todd Sand |
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| society | Winterhurst Figure Skating Club | ||||||||||||
| Trainer | John Nicks | ||||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||||
| End of career | 1998 | ||||||||||||
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Jenni Meno (born November 19, 1970 in Westlake , Ohio ) is a former American figure skater who started pair skating .
Her first figure skating partner was Scott Wendland . With him she was third in 1991 and second in 1992 at the US championships . In both years they also took part in world championships and finished them in tenth and eleventh place respectively. At the 1992 Olympic Games in Albertville , they finished eleventh.
It was at these Olympics that Meno fell in love with Todd Sand . From 1993 he also became her new figure skating partner. From 1994 to 1996 they won the US championships . From 1993 to 1998 they participated in world championships and never finished worse than in fifth place. In 1995 and 1996 they won the bronze medal. In 1998 in Minneapolis they celebrated their greatest success. They became vice world champions behind the Russians Jelena Bereschnaja and Anton Sicharulidze . At the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer , Sand and Meno finished fifth and at the 1998 Olympics in Nagano they were eighth.
Menos and Sands pair skating coach was John Nicks . After his amateur career, the couple ran for six seasons in the ice revue "Stars on Ice".
Jenni Meno and Todd Sand married in 1995 and have two sons - Jack, born in 2004, and Matthew, born in 2006.
Results
Pair skating
(* with Scott Wendland , otherwise with Todd Sand )
| Competition / year | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 |
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| winter Olympics | 11. * | 5. | 8th. | |||||
| World championships | 10. * | 11. * | 5. | 6th | 3. | 3. | 5. | 2. |
| American championships | 3. * | 2. * | 2. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 2. | Z |
- Z = withdrawn
Web links
- Jenni Meno in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Meno, Jenni |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American figure skater |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Westlake , Ohio |