Peter Carruthers (figure skater)

Peter Carruthers

nation

United States

birthday

July 22, 1959

place of birth

Boston

size

180 cm

Weight

70 kg

Career

discipline

Pair skating

Partner

Caitlin Carruthers

society

SC of Wilmington

Trainer

Ronald Ludington

status

resigned

Medal table

Olympic medals	0 ×	1 ×	0 ×
World Cup medals	0 ×	0 ×	1 ×

winter Olympics
silver	Sarajevo 1984	Couples
World figure skating championships
bronze	Copenhagen 1982	Couples

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

Competition / year	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984
winter Olympics	5.				2.
World championships	7th	5.	3.	4th
American championships	2.	1.	1.	1.	1.

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