Nancy Kerrigan

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Nancy Kerrigan figure skating
Nancy Kerrigan, 2006
nation United StatesUnited States United States
birthday October 13, 1969
place of birth Woburn, Massachusetts
size 162 cm
Weight 52 kg
Career
society Colonial FSC
Trainer Theresa Martin,
Denise Morrissey,
Evy and Mary Scotvold
status resigned
End of career 1994
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
World Cup medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze Albertville 1992 Ladies
silver Lillehammer 1994 Ladies
ISU World figure skating championships
bronze Munich 1991 Ladies
silver Oakland 1992 Ladies
 

Nancy Kerrigan (born October 13, 1969 in Woburn , Massachusetts ) is a former American figure skater who started in a single run .

life and career

Kerrigan is the daughter of Daniel Kerrigan and Brenda Schultz. She began ice skating at the age of six at the ice rink in her hometown of Stoneham , where she grew up. Her two older brothers Michael and Mark played ice hockey , but ice hockey was not an accepted sport for women at the time, and so Kerrigan decided to go figure skating. When she was eight, she took training lessons. Kerrigan's father, a welder, had to take three jobs at times to finance her career, including driving the ice-making machine at the ice rink where his daughter trained. She was coached by Theresa Martin until she was 16, then briefly by Denise Morrissey, and for the remainder of her career by Evy and Mary Scotvold .

In 1991, Kerrigan first reached the podium at the US championships . She finished third behind Tonya Harding and Kristi Yamaguchi . So she qualified for her first world championship , which took place in Munich . There she immediately won the bronze medal behind her compatriots Yamaguchi and Harding. She was part of the first world championship podium in women's competition, which only consisted of figure skaters from one country.

1992 Kerrigan improved both in the national championships as in the world championship by one place. She was national runner-up as well as runner-up world champion behind Kristi Yamaguchi. At her first Olympic Games in 1992 in Albertville , she won the bronze medal behind Yamaguchi and the Japanese Midori Itō .

After Yamaguchi's resignation, Kerrigan became US champion in 1993 , but with a faulty performance. At the World Championships in Prague she won the short program, but fell back to fifth place after a poor freestyle performance. As a result, the Ukrainian Oksana Bajul achieved a surprise victory.

An assassination attempt on Nancy Kerrigan on January 6, 1994 while training for the US championship attracted particular attention. The assassin Shane Stant injured the figure skater's knee with an iron bar so that she could not continue the competition. The assassin was hired and paid for by the husband of her competitor Tonya Harding , Jeff Gillooly. Harding won the championship, but was stripped of the title after her ties to the assassination became known.

A 1995 Azerbaijani postage stamp shows Nancy Kerrigan at the 1994 Winter Olympics

Seven weeks after the attack, Kerrigan showed what she herself called the best two performances of her career. At the Olympic Games in Lillehammer , she won the silver medal behind Oksana Bajul . She had won the short program, but lost the freestyle in a controversial 4-5 point judge vote and 0.2 points against Bajul.

After the Olympics, Kerrigan ended her amateur career, moving to the pros, and running for some ice revues like Champions on Ice and Broadway on Ice .

Kerrigan studied economics at Emmanuel College in Boston . She set up a foundation for the visually impaired as her mother is also affected.

Kerrigan married her manager Jerry Solomon in 1995. They have three children together. Her father died in January 2010, allegedly after a fight with Kerrigan's brother Mark. He was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for assault.

Results

Competition / year 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994
winter Olympics 3. 2.
World championships 3. 2. 5.
American championships 12. 5. 4th 3. 2. 1.

documentary

Trivia

  • The main female character Sarah Kerrigan in Blizzard's StarCraft strategy game series was named after Nancy Kerrigan.
  • In the 1st verse of the song Strange Clouds from the album of the same name by the American rapper BoB (feat. Lil Wayne ), allusions are made to the above-mentioned assassination attempt on Nancy Kerrigan .

Works

Web links

Commons : Nancy Kerrigan  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Heartbreak for Skater Nancy Kerrigan ; InsideEdition.com, January 25, 2010.
  2. ^ Nancy Kerrigan's Brother Charged With Manslaughter in Dad's Death ( October 18, 2015 memento in the Internet Archive ); AP report on FoxNews.com, April 8, 2010
  3. ^ Nancy Kerrigan's brother sentenced to 2½ years ; AP notification to CBC / Radio-Canada, May 26, 2011
  4. ↑ Joyce Eng: NBC Revisits Nancy Kerrigan-Tonya Harding Scandal in "Fascinating Character Study". In: tvguide.com from February 21, 2014
  5. ↑ Maurice Weber: Starcraft 2 - Why Kerrigan is called "Kerrigan". In: gamestar.de. November 16, 2015, accessed July 30, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Kerrigan, Nancy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American figure skater
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Woburn, Massachusetts