Johnny Weir

Johnny Weir
Full name	John Garvin Weir
nation	United States
birthday	2nd July 1984
place of birth	Coatesville , Pennsylvania
size	175 cm
Career
discipline	Single run
society	SC of New York
Trainer	Halyna Smijewska , Viktor Petrenko
choreographer	David Wilson , Nina Petrenko (former choreographers: Natalja Linitschuk , Tatjana Tarasowa , Shanetta Folle, Denis Petuchow , Priscilla Hill , Evgeni Platow , Marina Anissina , Maja Ussowa , Faye Kitarieva, Michelle Poley, Carolanne Leone, Giuseppe Arena, Anselika Krylowa , Juri Sergejew )
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
World figure skating championships bronze Gothenburg 2008 Men's
Personal best
Total points 238.87 Olympia 2010  Freestyle 156.77 Olympia 2010  Short program 84.60 GPF 2009/10
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 0 0 2  Grand Prix competitions 4th 5 2
last change: November 11, 2012

John Garvin "Johnny" Weir (born July 2, 1984 in Coatesville , Pennsylvania ) is an American figure skater who starts in a single run .

Career

Weir's first passion was equestrian , which he practiced quite successfully as a child. It was only at the age of eleven that he began to take an interest in figure skating . He was inspired by Oksana Bajul , whose Olympic victory in 1994 he watched on television. Before his parents gave him a pair of ice skates for Christmas, he taught himself to roller skate in the basement of his house. Then he tried his hand at ice skating on a frozen grain field behind his house. Eventually he took figure skating lessons from Priscilla Hill at the University of Delaware . His family moved to Newark for this.

Johnny Weir at the 2008 World Cup

Although Weir didn't start figure skating until he was twelve, he made rapid progress. Already in his first week of training he got an axel , a week later a double axel and a month later his first triple jump, a flip. Due to time constraints, he had to give up riding and from now on concentrated on figure skating. Weir achieved his first major success in 2001 when he won the Junior World Championship in front of his compatriot Evan Lysacek . In 2003, Weir moved from the University of Delaware FSC to the Skating Club of New York.

In 2004, Weir became the American champion for the first time . He defended this title in 2005 and 2006. His world championship debut in 2004 he finished in fifth place. In 2004 Weir won his first Grand Prix competitions with victories at the Eric Bompard Trophy and the NHK Trophy . At the World Cup the following year, he improved by one place over the previous year and finished fourth. In 2006 Weir played his first Olympic Games and finished them in fifth place. At the World Cup , he could not improve and finished seventh. In the spring of 2007 Weir left his long-time coach Priscilla Hill and moved to New Jersey to Halyna Smijewska , who had already led Wiktor Petrenko and Oksana Bajul to the Olympic title. The reason he gave was that he needed someone who could drive him and that Priscilla Hill had become a kind of "surrogate mother" for him.

The 2007/2008 season was extremely successful for Weir. After two victories in Grand Prix competitions - Cup of China and Cup of Russia - where he also defeated two-time world champion Stéphane Lambiel , Weir won his first and only medal at world championships with bronze in Gothenburg .

The following year Weir could not qualify for the World Cup. In 2010 he came back and finished sixth at the Olympic Games in Vancouver . He was attacked by PETA and the Friends of Animals because of his ice skating costume with fox fur applications. Because of the threats from animal rights activists , he put faux fur on his costume, but emphasized that wearing fur was a "personal choice". He asked if the activists knew that all ice skaters wore leather shoes. The activists' threats also forced Weir to move homes during the Olympics.

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Personal

Johnny Weir was born in Coatesville , Pennsylvania to John and Patti Weir and grew up in Quarryville , Pennsylvania. He has a brother who is four years his junior.

Weir briefly studied linguistics at the University of Delaware and admires Russian culture and figure skating style. He collects Cheburashka fan articles.

He is Roman Catholic but describes himself as open to other belief systems, including practicing Kabbalah . "I believe in all good things and everything that love can teach and I feel that all of these things protect me."

Johnny Weir at the Pride Parade in Los Angeles, 2011

Weir is interested in fashion and has already designed some costumes himself, also for other figure skaters, such as. B. Yuzuru Hanyu .

James Pellerito and David Barba filmed him from 2006 to spring 2008. The documentary Pop Star on Ice premiered on May 24, 2009 at the Seattle International Film Festival , screened at various film festivals in the United States until the summer of 2009 and broadcast on December 24, 2009 on the Sundance Channel (USA). From January to March 2010, the multi-part reality show Be Good Johnny Weir was broadcast on the same station . From the end of January and from mid-2011, two more seasons will be broadcast in Logo .

In 2010 the asteroid (12413) Johnnyweir , which was discovered by TW Kryachenko in 1995, was named after Weir. His Russian fans had made this suggestion.

During the 2010 Olympic Games, two Canadian commentators were critical of Weir's effeminate and flamboyant behavior and expressed concern that it could damage the reputation of men's figure skating. Weir was annoyed by the comments.

In early 2011, Weir published his autobiography Welcome to my World . In December 2010 the song Dirty Love (author: Lucian Piane ) could already be heard on his website. At the same time as the book, the song is also available in the online shops. Shortly thereafter, it was number one on the sales charts of the Japanese Amazon website and number 22 on the iTunes Japan Dance charts .

Weir's sexual orientation has long been the subject of media speculation. Weir often replied to such questions with “… it's not part of my sport and it's private. I can sleep with who I choose and it doesn't affect what I do on the ice. ” In his autobiography Welcome to my World , in which he finally confessed himself to be homosexual , he cited the increased suicides among young homosexuals as the reason for this : "In the face of people who kill themselves and hide their homosexuality in fear, I hope that at least one person can draw strength from my story."

On New Year's Eve 2011, Johnny Weir married his partner Viktor Voronov, an American lawyer of Russian origin. The two divorced in 2015. They cited "domestic difficulties" as reasons.

In September 2019, Weir took part as Egg in the second season of the US offshoot of The Masked Singer and was eliminated as the first candidate.

Johnny Weir with trainer Halyna Smijewska, 2007

Results

Championship / year	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	...	2013
winter Olympics						5.				6th
World championships				5.	4th	7th	8th.	3.
Four continents championships		4th
Junior World Championships	1.
American championships	6th	5.	Z	1.	1.	1.	3.	2.	5.	3.
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Grand Prix competition / season	00/01	01/02	02/03	03/04	04/05	05/06	06/07	07/08	08/09	09/10	...	12/13
Grand Prix Final					Z		Z	4th	3.	3.
Skate America									2.
Skate Canada		7th				7th	3.
Cup of Russia			Z		2.	3.	2.	1.		4th		Z
Eric Bompard Trophy		4th			1.
NHK Trophy			Z		1.				2.	2.
Cup of China								1.

• Z = withdrawn

Web links

Commons : Johnny Weir  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Johnny Weir in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
• Johnny Weir in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Johnny Weir's website

literature

• Johnny Weir: Welcome to my World , Gallery, 2011, ISBN 1-4516-1028-9

Individual evidence

1. ↑ my middle name is Garvin. . Johnny Weir via Twitter. June 29, 2010. Retrieved June 13, 2011.
2. ↑ ^{a b} http://www.goldenskate.com/2001/12/weir-jumps-from-show-ring-to-ice-rink/
3. ↑ http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/detail.jsp?id=100084&mode=I
4. ↑ http://www.icecalc.com/events/wjc2001/results/CAT041RS.HTM
5. ↑ Weir says he'll wear faux, not fox fur, after receiving threats
6. ^ Pritha Sarkar: "Crazy for people" force Weir's hand , Reuters. February 13, 2010. Retrieved February 17, 2010. 
7. ↑ Wary Weir says threats keeping him in village , the San Francisco Chronicle. February 14, 2010. Retrieved February 17, 2010. 
8. ↑ http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20071221&content_id=39881&vkey=ice_news
9. ↑ http://www.cleveland.com/olympics/index.ssf/2010/02/tim_warsinskeys_olympic_take_f.html
10. ↑ http://www.goldenskate.com/2011/04/shooting-for-the-top/
11. ^ Neil Genzlinger : Figure Skater's Campaign to Retake His Summit , January 17, 2010, The New York Times
12. ↑ Johnny Weir discusses 'Be Good Johnny Weir' season finale and the possibility of a second season , March 22, 2010, Los Angeles Times - Show Tracker
13. ↑ Jennifer Sale: "Be Good Johnny Weir" Going to the Logo Network for Two Seasons in 2011  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , December 6, 2010, associatedcontent.com  
14. ↑ Johnny Weir in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
15. ↑ http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/figure-skater-johnny-weir-lashes-back-broadcasters-suggests-ets-a-bad-article-1.171825#ixzz0jA8r3kKR
16. ↑ Weir's whirlwind includes No. 1 'Dirty Love' , January 11, 2011, figureskatersonline.com
17. ↑ Johnny Weir's 'Dirty Love' Is the Number-1 Song in Japan! ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , January 19, 2011, worldofwonder.net  
18. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/16/AR2006021602450.html
19. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
20. ↑ http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/johnny-weir-flamboyant-figure-skater-admits-autobiography-gay-article-1.148500
21. ↑ http://www.afterelton.com/people/2011/01/johnny-weir-finally-really-out
22. ↑ http://www.figureskatersonline.com/johnnyweir/home/2012/01/olympic-figure-skater-johnny-weir-marries-wonderful-russian-boyfriend/  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: Der Link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
23. ↑ Julia Odom: The identity of the over-the-top Egg was unmasked after being the first to be voted off, the Egg was revealed to be figure skater Johnny Weir. In: Screen Rant. September 30, 2019, accessed on July 14, 2020 .