Michael Weiss (figure skater)

Michael Weiss
nation	United States
birthday	2nd August 1976
place of birth	Washington DC
size	173 cm
Career
discipline	Single run
society	Washington FSC
Trainer	Audrey Weisinger, Don Laws
choreographer	Lisa Thornton-Weiss Peter Tschernyshev
status	resigned
End of career	2006
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 2 × VK medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
World figure skating championships bronze Helsinki 1999 Men's bronze Nice 2000 Men's Four continents championships bronze Salt Lake City 2001 Men's
Personal best
Total points 206.94 Skate America 2003  Freestyle 133.09 Skate America 2003  Short program 73.85 Skate America 2003

Michael Weiss (born August 2, 1976 in Washington, DC ) is a former American figure skater who started in a single run .

Michael Weiss comes from his sporty family. His father Greg competed as a gymnast in the 1964 Olympic Games and his mother Margie was a national gymnastics champion . His sister Geremi was national junior figure skating runners-up and his sister Genna was junior world champion in diving . It was also Geremi who inspired Michael to figure skating. Michael himself was a regional champion in water jumping before.

Michael Weiss started figure skating at the age of nine and therefore relatively late. His trainer was Audrey Weisinger and from 2002 Don Laws. He took part in the US championships 19 times in a row , from 1988 to 1991 as a novice, from 1992 to 1993 as a junior and until 2006 in the seniors. In 1993, he became the American Junior Champion and in 1999, 2000 and 2003 the American Senior Champion. In 1994 he became junior world champion . In 2001 he won bronze at the Four Continents Championships in Salt Lake City , behind Li Chengjiang and Takeshi Honda . Weiss took part in world championships seven times and was never placed worse than seventh place. At the world championships in Helsinki in 1999 and in Nice in 2000 he won the bronze medal, in 1999 behind Alexei Jagudin and Yevgeny Pljuschtschenko and in 2000 behind Alexei Jagudin and Elvis Stojko . Weiss took part in the 1998 Olympic Games in Nagano and 2002 in Salt Lake City and finished them in seventh place.

Weiss was the first American to compete in a quadruple toe loop , as happened in 1997, and the second American after Timothy Goebel to ever compete in a quadruple jump.

Weiss ended his long career in 2006 and has been touring with Stars on Ice ever since. He set up his own foundation that grants scholarships to figure skating talent. Have benefited so far, among others Mirai Nagasu , Madison and Keiffer Hubbell, Daisuke Murakami and Christine Zukowski.

Weiss and his wife Lisa Thornton, his former jazz dance teacher and later choreographer, whom he married in 1997, have two children together: Annie-Mae (born 1998) and Christopher Michael (born 1999).

Results

Competition / year	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
winter Olympics							7th				7th
World championships						7th	6th	3.	3.		6th	5.	6th
Four continents championships										3.					9.
Junior World Championships		2.	1.
American championships	5th J	1st J	8th.	6th	5.	2.	2.	1.	1.	4th	3.	1.	2.	5.	4th

• J = juniors

Weiss 2010 at Stars on Ice

Web links

• Michael Weiss in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
• Michael Weiss in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• official page

Footnotes

1. ↑ USFSA: Michael Weiss Foundation Show To Raise Money for Rising Stars
2. ↑ Michael Weiss Juggles Skating and Fatherhood Celebrity Baby Blog, March 29, 2009