John Misha Petkevich

John Misha Petkevich (born 3 March 1949 in Minneapolis, Minnesota ) is an American former figure skater, who started in a single run.

In 1971 was Petkevich American champion and also won the North American Championship. He took part in four time World Championships. 1969, 1970 and 1971, he was fifth and 1972 he reached the fourth place his best finish. Petkevich participated in two Olympic Games, in 1968, he finished it in sixth and fifth in 1972. He was trained by Arthur Bourke and Gustave Lussi. He was best known for his dynamic Free Programmes. Most of the other figure skaters of his time distinguished him above all his freer musical interpretation and its athletic array of costumes that found imitators quickly.

While studying at Harvard University in 1970, he called the Eisschau " An Evening with Champions " to life, collected the money for various cancer foundations.

Petkevich was the recipient of an unusual trophy. At the World Cup in 1947 Ulrich Salchow Richard Button gave one of his own trophies because he was impressed by him and disappointed that Button did not win. After the 1972 Olympics Button gave this trophy for the same reasons to Petkevich on. Petkevich said that he wanted to continue this tradition one day.

After his career doctorate Petkevich in cell biology, and later worked as an investment banker. He also commented on figure skating events for NBC, CBS and ESPN.

He is the author of a standard work on figure skating, called " Championship Techniques".

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Single skating U. S. Figure Skating Championships 1969 World Figure Skating Championships 1970 World Figure Skating Championships 1971 World Figure Skating Championships 1972 World Figure Skating Championships Winter Olympic Games 1947 World Figure Skating Championships 1972 Winter Olympics List of Olympic medalists in figure skating Toller Cranston Sherwin Badger Chris Christenson Robin Lee Hayes Alan Jenkins Bradley Lord Monty Hoyt Thomas Litz Scott Allen Tim Wood (figure skater) Kenneth Shelley Terry Kubicka Charles Tickner Christopher Bowman Todd Eldredge Timothy Goebel Johnny Weir Evan Lysacek Jeremy Abbott Ryan Bradley Max Aaron
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