Janet Lynn

Janet Lynn Nowicki ( born April 6, 1953 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former American figure skater who started in a single run.

Janet Lynn began very early with the figure skating. Her parents had encouraged her to help her get rid of her shyness. She loved figure skating, however, just because they could express themselves there without having to talk. Your first skating idea they had with others at the age of four years in the Chicago Stadium. With eight years she lived part of her life away from home to be near her coach Slavka Kohout, who worked in Rockton. Lynn's family later moved from Chicago in the suburb of Evergreen Park to be closer to the training center. Lynn decided to omit their actual surname Nowicki and run just under her middle name Lynn as her last name was ever written and mispronounced.

In 1966 she won the national junior championship and showed there already you jump Talent, where she landed a triple Salchow, which was shown at this time rarely figure skaters. In the senior should be one of the first women later who had a triple toe loop in your program.

In their first national championships Lynn 1967 Fourth and finally, in 1968 a third party, which meant qualification for the Olympic Games in Grenoble for only fourteen years old. There she finished ninth. It was her first international competition. This was followed by her first World Cup, in which they Ninth was also. In 1969 she became the first national champion. In spite of the injury-related absence the Canadian Karen Magnussen and Czecho Slovak Hana Mašková they did not come at the world championships on the fifth place out, even behind the runner-up at the U.S. Championships, Julie Lynn Holmes.

The World Championships were a problem for them. 1970 in Ljubljana it was despite the second-best freestyle Sixth, with her ​​compatriot Holmes, they had not yet had clearly under control at the national championships, won the bronze medal. Gaby Seyfert of East Germany won ahead of Austrian Beatrix Schuba. Lynn's main problem was its inconstancy in the compulsory figures, which they had to compensate with the freestyle, which was very difficult at this time because the obligation figures, a much higher weighting in the final result had as the freestyle. Lynn tried to improve in the compulsory figures, by beginning a collaboration with the coaching in New York former French Doppelolympiasiger pair skating, Pierre Brunet, who had already achieved great success as a coach with Carol Heiss and Donald Jackson. At the World Cup 1971 in Lyon, it was ranked by the compulsory figures in fifth place, with Schuba, as expected, led before Lynn's compatriot Holmes. The first place in the freestyle helped Lynn but not still work your way to a medal rank. It was fourth. Schuba won despite seventh best freestyle before Holmes, who had shown the fifth best freestyle. The Canadian Magnussen won bronze. The audience but Lynn celebrated more than the medal winners.

In Olympic 1972 Lynn Holmes struck for the fourth time in a row at the national championships. At the Olympic Games in Sapporo, ranked by Lynn compulsory figures in fourth place and won the freestyle. Thus they secured the bronze medal behind Schuba and Magnussen, but before Holmes. At the World Championships in Calgary was repeated this ranking, although Schuba was only the ninth- best freestyle and Lynn had lain before her Kürsieg in third place.

At this time, Lynn fought with weight problems and motivation problems due to their unsatisfactory for them international results. But as a deeply religious Christian, she had always considered that they also had to use the talent that God had given her. So they went on and won their fifth national title in 1973 in a row. After the short program was introduced and Schuba had resigned, it looked like this could only endanger Magnussen Lynn. At the World Championships in Bratislava she then showed her best career performance in the compulsory figures. It was there in second. However, she fell in the newly introduced short program, where a victory of her was expected twice and placed there only as The 12 freestyle but won it and became Vice World Champion behind Magnussen. This marked the end of Lynn's amateur career.

The contrast between Janet Lynn and Beatrix Schuba was one of the reasons why the International Skating Union reduced the value of the compulsory figures, by introducing the short program. Since the running of compulsory figures was hardly televised and when, but it was very inappropriate for transmission and difficult to understand for lay people, many viewers were irritated and angry when superior Kürläuferinnen as Lynn in the final result had no chance against average Kürläuferinnen as Schuba.

In addition to her talent jump Lynn is especially remembered for her graceful, light-footed running style and the use of her entire body to the music to which she ran to express as well as for the integration of jumps in her choreography. For many Lynn considered the best runner of the story, without ever having won a gold medal at the World Championships and Olympic Games.

Even after the end of her amateur career their popularity was so great that the ice show Ice Follies offered her a three-year contract of nearly a half million dollars, which made ​​her the highest-paid professional athlete of her time. Your presence at Ice Follies evaluated on the ice revue opposite of the better known Ice Capades. In 1973 she published the autobiographical book Peace and Love, in which she talks about her life, figure skating and their faith. In 1974, Lynn professional world champion in a tournament, which had been founded by Richard Button. After two years of Lynn's professional career was terminated because she had problems with an allergy -related asthma that was aggravated in the air of the ice rinks. In 1975, she finished so their figure skating career and started a family. In the early eighties, however, when their asthma was under control, she returned and ran for several years. She stepped back into buttons competitions in appearance and ran with John Curry in its produced for television Eisballett "The Snow Queen". Lynn was also active as a Christian motivational speaker and has written articles to promote conservative policies. She is married to Rick Salomon, with whom she had five sons.

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