Peter Carruthers (figure skater)
Peter Carruthers | |||||||||||||
nation | United States | ||||||||||||
birthday | July 22, 1959 | ||||||||||||
place of birth | Boston | ||||||||||||
size | 180 cm | ||||||||||||
Weight | 70 kg | ||||||||||||
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discipline | Pair skating | ||||||||||||
Partner | Caitlin Carruthers | ||||||||||||
society | SC of Wilmington | ||||||||||||
Trainer | Ronald Ludington | ||||||||||||
status | resigned | ||||||||||||
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Peter Carruthers (born July 22, 1959 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is a former American figure skater who started pair skating .
Peter Carruthers' figure skating partner was his younger sister Caitlin Carruthers . Both had been adopted. Her trainer was Ronald Ludington . They made their international debut in 1980. As national runners-up behind Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner , they finished the Olympic Games in Lake Placid in fifth place and the World Championships in Dortmund in seventh place. They were the best American couple in the Olympics as Babilonia and Gardner were unable to compete due to an injury. From 1981 to 1984, the siblings were US champions in pair skatingand thus became the direct successor of Babilonia and Gardner. In 1982 in Copenhagen they won their only world championship medal with bronze behind Sabine Baeß and Tassilo Thierbach as well as Marina Pestowa and Stanislaw Leonowitsch . The greatest success of Peter and Caitlin Carruthers, however, was winning the silver medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Sarajevo behind Jelena Walowa and Oleg Wassiljew from the Soviet Union . After that, they ended their amateur careers, switched to professionals and appeared in ice revues.
Peter Carruthers also worked as a figure skating commentator for various television channels.
Results
Pair skating
(with Caitlin Carruthers )
Competition / year | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 |
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winter Olympics | 5. | 2. | |||
World championships | 7th | 5. | 3. | 4th | |
American championships | 2. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. |
Web links
- Peter Carruthers in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Carruthers, Peter |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American figure skater |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 22, 1959 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston |