Peter Oppegard

Peter Oppegard
Full name	Peter Allen Oppegard
nation	United States
birthday	23rd August 1959
size	183 cm
Weight	79 kg
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	Jill Watson
society	LAFSC
status	resigned
End of career	1988
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze Calgary 1988 Couples  World figure skating championships bronze Cincinnati 1987 Couples

Peter Allen Oppegard (born August 23, 1959 ) is a former American figure skater who started in pair skating and is an active figure skating coach.

At first he started in pair skating alongside Vicki Heasley, from 1985 Jill Watson became his figure skating partner. In 1985, 1987 and 1988 they became US champions . In the period from 1985 to 1988 they took part in world championships . They won their only world championship medal with bronze in 1987 in Cincinnati behind the Soviet couples Yekaterina Gordejewa and Sergei Grinkow as well as Jelena Walowa and Oleg Wassiljew . The same result achieved Oppegard and Watson at the 1988 Olympic Games in Calgary .

After finishing his career in 1988, Oppegard became a coach. His students have won ten national championship titles so far. Since October 2010 he has been training Kim Yu-na at the East West Ice Palace in California .

Oppegard is married to Karen Kwan, the sister of Michelle Kwan . The couple have two daughters.

Results

Pair skating

(with Jill Watson )

Competition / year	1985	1986	1987	1988
winter Olympics				3.
World championships	4th	6th	3.	6th
American championships	1.	2.	1.	1.

Web links

• Peter Oppegard in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )