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Kristine Tsuya Yamaguchi (born July 12, 1971) is an American former competitive figure skater, author and philanthropist. A former competitor in women's singles, Yamaguchi is the 1992 Olympic champion, a two-time World champion (1991 and 1992), and the 1992 U.S. champion.
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Kristine Tsuya Yamaguchi (Hayward, California, 12 de julio de 1971) es una patinadora artística estadounidense, campeona olímpica de Albertville 1992 en la prueba individual femenina. Es también campeona mundial en 1991 y 1992 y campeona de EE. UU. en 1992.
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- Who Is Kristi Yamaguchi?
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Kristi Yamaguchi was born in Hayward, California, in 1971. She was born with club feet and began skating at 6 as therapy. She won her first U.S. championship as a pairs skater with Rudy Galindo in 1986. After switching to singles skating, she won a gold medal in the 1992 Olympics. Since then she’s founded the Always Dream Foundation, published four...
Kristine Tsuya Yamaguchi, better known as Kristi Yamaguchi, was born on July 12, 1971, in Hayward, California, and raised in nearby Fremont. She was born with club feet, and had casts to correct the condition. She started skating at age 6 as physical therapy, after she saw her older sister, Lori, on the ice.
Although Lori quickly dropped out of the sport, Yamaguchi’s love of ice skating kept growing. She started competing in junior high, and in 1986 she won the junior pairs title at the U.S. championships with her partner, Rudy Galindo. Two years later they took home the same honor at the World Junior Championships, and Yamaguchi also won the singles e...
After conquering the ice, Yamaguchi turned to the screen. In 1993 she made a fitness video titled Hip to Be Fit: The California Raisins and Kristi Yamaguchi. She went on to act in the PBS series Freedom: A History of Us, and has played herself in the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, the film D2: The Mighty Ducks, the TV special Frosted Pink and the ...
In 2000, Yamaguchi married Bret Hedican, a hockey player she met at the Olympic Games in 1992. They have two daughters, Keara and Emma, and divide their time between the San Francisco Bay area; Raleigh, North Carolina; and Minnesota.
27 de mar. de 2021 · Kristi YAMAGUCHI. Team United States of America. Figure Skating. Olympic Medals. 1 G. Games Participations 1. First Olympic Games Albertville 1992. Year of Birth 1971. Olympic Results. Biography.
Kristi Yamaguchi is an Olympic gold medalist figure skater and two-time world champion. Born in Hayward, California, Yamaguchi fell in love with figure skating at a young age, winning the pairs title at the 1988 World Junior Championships with skating partner Rudy Galindo.
14 de feb. de 2022 · Kristi Yamaguchi won gold 30 years ago. American figure skating would never look the same. By Robert Samuels. February 14, 2022 at 10:36 a.m. EST. Listen. 11 min. She had all the ingredients of...
Nearly 30 years later, the ripple effects of Kristi Yamaguchi’s Albertville 1992 Olympic gold are still being felt – in the United States and beyond. PyeongChang 2018 figure skating team bronze medallist Adam Rippon 's comments on what Yamaguchi’s win meant to him - and many more came in a new original series , ‘Time Machine’ , which ...
