Ronald Kauffman
Ronald Kauffman 
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| Full name | Ronald Lee Kauffman | ||||||||||||
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 United States
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| birthday | December 25, 1946 | ||||||||||||
| place of birth | Seattle, Washington | ||||||||||||
| size | 193 cm | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 80 kg | ||||||||||||
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| discipline | Pair skating | ||||||||||||
| Partner | Cynthia Kauffman | ||||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||||
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Ronald Lee "Ronnie" Kauffman (born December 25, 1946 in Seattle , Washington ) is a former American figure skater who started pair skating .
Together with his younger sister, Cynthia Kauffman , he was US pair skating champion from 1966 to 1969 . The couple competed in world championships from 1964 to 1969 . They won the bronze medal at the World Championships in Davos in 1966 , in Vienna in 1967 and in Geneva in 1968 , always when Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov from the Soviet Union won . The Kauffmanns played two Olympic Games . They finished eighth in Innsbruck in 1964 and sixth in Grenoble in 1968 . They were the first couple to show a litter axel .
Results
Pair skating
(with Cynthia Kauffman )
| Competition / year | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 |
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| winter Olympics | 8th. | 6th | ||||
| World championships | 7th | 6th | 3. | 3. | 3. | 4th |
| American championships | 3. | 2. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. |
Web links
- Ronald Kauffman in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Kauffman, Ronald |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kauffmann, Ronald Lee; Kauffman, Ronnie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American figure skater |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seattle , Washington |