Jill Trenary

Jill Ann Trenary ( born August 1, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former American figure skater who started in a single run. It is the world champion of 1990.

At the age of 16 years Trenary moved to Colorado Springs at the Broadmoor Skating Club with Carlo Fassi be able to train. She celebrated her first success in 1985 when she won the title at the U.S. Junior Championships. In 1987 she was the first time U.S. champion in the senior and the reigning World Champion in front of Debi Thomas. That same year she played her first World Cup in Cincinnati and finished seventh, while their rural women Debi Thomas and Caryn Kadavy silver and bronze won. In the Olympic year 1988 she was runner-up at the national championships behind Thomas. In their first and only Olympics they finished fourth in Calgary. In the subsequent World Cup they finished fifth. Following the resignation of all three medal winners from this year, Katarina Witt, Elizabeth Manley and Debi Thomas now Trenary was expected to place themselves in front. As reigning U.S. champion, she won at the World Championships in Paris in 1989 with a bronze behind Midori Ito and Claudia Leistner her first World Cup medal. In 1990 was their most successful year. For the third time, she won the national championships and was in Halifax, Canada, also world champion Midori Ito before and her compatriot Holly Cook. After this success, she had to struggle with an ankle injury, from which they are difficult recovered. In addition, the duty figures of the ISU were abolished, which had just been her strength. So she told her resignation in 1991. She moved to the pros and ran for some ice revues such as Holiday on Ice until she developed a life-threatening thrombus in 1997 in her shoulder.

On October 15, 1994 in Minneapolis Trenary married to Olympic champion and multiple world champion in ice dancing Christopher Dean. Together they have two sons. The marriage ended in divorce in 2010.

Results

Works

  • Jill Trenary, Dale Mitch: Time of My Life: Jill Trenary: The Day I skated for the gold. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1989, ISBN 0-671-68315-2.
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