Elaine Zayak

Elaine Kathryn Zayak ( born April 4, 1965 in Paramus, New Jersey) is a former American figure skater who starts in a single run. It is the world champion of 1982.

Career

At the age of two years, Elaine Zayak had an accident with an electric mower. As a result, she lost part of her left foot, the two small toes. On the advice of her doctor, she started figure skating as physical therapy. Her left shoe needed a deposit to compensate for the missing foot as possible. Zayak trained with Peter Burrows and Marylynn Gelderman.

In 1979 Zayak was Junior World Champion. The breakthrough in the seniors she made in 1981. Was the first time she traveled as the reigning U.S. champion to the World Cup and was in Hartford World runner-up behind the Swiss Denise Biellmann. A year later she became world champion in Copenhagen. Under this title they had a hard time and had particular difficulties in the compulsory figures. At the World Cup in 1983 they had to withdraw. But she struggled zoom again. At the Olympic Games in Sarajevo, she finished sixth, won at the World Championships in Ottawa with a similar performance but once again a bronze medal.

Zayak was the first woman who had many triple jumps in her program. In the 1982 World Cup she jumped six three times and won against Katarina Witt. However, four of these jumps were threefold Toeloops. Because of these frequent repetitions of the same jump, the regulations were changed and introduced the so-called Zayak rule. After each jump must be carried out twice in one program, one of which must be presented in a combination with another jump.

In 1984 Zayak for a few years to the professionals. In 1993 she left to reamateurisieren to start again at the Olympic Winter Games 1994. Despite good performance but it was in 1994 at the U.S. Championships only Fourth and therefore could not qualify.

Elaine Zayak is married since 2000 and has a son Jack. She's figure skating coach in Hackensack, New Jersey. She is also spokesperson at the U.S. Figure Skating Association.

Results

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1981 World Figure Skating Championships 1982 World Figure Skating Championships 1984 World Figure Skating Championships Single skating World Junior Figure Skating Championships U. S. Figure Skating Championships 1983 World Figure Skating Championships Toe loop jump Hackensack (New Jersey) Winter Olympic Games 1980 World Figure Skating Championships Lily Kronberger Sonja Henie Cecilia Colledge Megan Taylor Barbara Ann Scott Jeannette Altwegg Jacqueline du Bief Tenley Albright Gundi Busch Carol Heiss Petra Burka Peggy Fleming Gabriele Seyfert Trixi Schuba Karen Magnussen Christine Errath Dianne de Leeuw Dorothy Hamill Rosalynn Sumners Debi Thomas Jill Trenary Kristi Yamaguchi Chen Lu Michelle Kwan Kimmie Meissner Carolina Kostner Tiffany Chin Janina Wirth Simone Koch Laëtitia Hubert Sydne Vogel Jennifer Kirk Caroline Zhang Rachael Flatt Kanako Murakami Adelina Sotnikova Beatrix Loughran Maribel Vinson Gretchen Merrill Yvonne Sherman Sonya Klopfer Laurence Owen Barbara Roles Janet Lynn Tonya Harding Nancy Kerrigan Nicole Bobek Sasha Cohen Mirai Nagasu Alissa Czisny Ashley Wagner Gracie Gold
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