Tiffany Chin

Tiffany Chin
Full name	Audrey Tiffany Chin
nation	United States
birthday	March 10, 1967
place of birth	Toluca Lake, California
size	150 cm
Weight	41 kg
Career
society	San Diego FSC
Trainer	Mabel Fairbanks, Janet Champion, Frank Carroll, John Nicks, Don Laws
status	resigned
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 2 ×
World figure skating championships bronze Tokyo 1985 Ladies bronze Geneva 1986 Ladies

Audrey Tiffany Chin ( Chinese : 陳婷婷, pinyin : Chén Tíngtíng) (born March 10, 1967 in Toluca Lake , California ) is a former American figure skater who started in a single run .

Life

Chin, who grew up in San Diego , became junior world champion in 1981 and initially followed in the footsteps of her compatriots Elaine Zayak and Rosalynn Sumners , who had also become junior world champions before they should also achieve this with the seniors. In 1983 Chin played their first senior world championship and finished ninth. At her first and only Olympic Games , she finished fourth in Sarajevo in 1984 . The fact that it wasn't enough for a medal was mainly due to her poor performance in duty, after which she was only twelfth. So even the second best short program and the third best freestyle were no longer enough to win a medal. In 1985 Chin won the national championship and with bronze at the world championships in Tokyo behind Katarina Witt and Kira Iwanowa, her first major international medal among the seniors. In contrast to her appearance at the Olympic Games, she showed a good compulsory performance, the second best in the field, but made an easy one out of the planned triple Salchow in the freestyle and fell on the double Axel . After the tournament, her mother took Chin out of competitions for eight months and had her treated for the imbalance of her muscles in her hips and legs. After this break, she was considered an outsider at the national championships, but came third and qualified for the world championship in Geneva , where she surprisingly defended her bronze medal, this time behind her compatriot Debi Thomas and Witt. After she missed qualifying for the 1987 World Cup , she ended her amateur career.

During her career, Chin had numerous coaches, which was unusual at the time and was also criticized, including Scott Hamilton . As a child she was trained by Mabel Fairbanks , then switched to Janet Champion on their recommendation . Chin's mother Marjorie fired Champion and hired Frank Carroll , who led Chin to the Junior World Championship . Due to a dispute between Carroll and Chin's mother, Carroll ended the collaboration. Then John Nick became Chins trainer. Under him she stood triple axels. After a growth spurt and recurring muscle problems that deprived her ability to do most triple jumps, she left Nicks and trained with Don Laws . Chin was one of the few figure skaters in the eighties who had all five triple jumps in her repertoire, but after 1985 she could no longer jump triple flip and toe- loop. She returned to Nicks in the fall of 1986 and then to Carroll in 1987 before retiring from her career. She then began studying English literature at UCLA . She later worked as a trainer for Beatrisa Liang and Kailani Craine , among others . In 1997 she married Steven Kan and has a son with him.

Results

Competition / year	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987
winter Olympics				4th
World championships			9.		3.	3.
Junior World Championships	1.
American championships		5.	3.	2.	1.	3.	4th

Web links

• Tiffany Chin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Fanpage for Tiffany Chin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080306&content_id=45227&vkey=ice_news/