Michael Weiss (figure skater)

Michael Weiss ( born August 2, 1976 in Washington, DC ) is an American former figure skater, who started in a single run.

Michael Weiss comes from his athletic family. His father took over as Greg Turner participated in the Olympic Games in 1964 and his mother Margie was national champion in gymnastics. His sister Geremi was national runner-up in the junior figure skater and his sister Genna was Junior World Champion in the water jump. Geremi it was she who inspired Michael to figure skating. Michael himself was previously a regional champion in the water jump.

Michael Weiss began at the age of nine years and thus relatively late with the figure skating. His trainer was Audrey Weisinger and in 2002 Don Laws. He took 19 times in a row at the U.S. championships from 1988 to 1991 as a novice, from 1992 to 1993 as a junior and until 2006 in the seniors. In 1993, he was U.S. champion in the junior and in the years 1999, 2000 and 2003 U.S. champion in the seniors. In 1994 he became junior world champion. In 2001 he won the bronze medal at the Four Continents Championships in Salt Lake City, behind Li Chengjiang and Takeshi Honda. White took part in the World Championships seven times and never placed worse than 7th place at the World Championships in Helsinki in 1999 and in Nice in 2000, he won the bronze medal, behind Alexei Yagudin 1999 and Yevgeny Plyushchenko and 2000 Alexei Yagudin behind and Elvis Stojko. White participated in the 1998 Olympics in Nagano part and 2002 in Salt Lake City and she finished in seventh place, respectively.

White was the first American who was a quadruple toe loop in competition, as happened in 1997 and the second American after Timothy Goebel, the ever a quadruple jump was in competition.

In 2006 Weiss ended his long career and is touring with Stars on Ice. He founded his own foundation, which grants scholarships figure skating talents. Have benefited up to now, among others Mirai Nagasu, Madison and Keiffer Hubbell, Daisuke Murakami and Christine Zukowski.

Weiss and his wife, Lisa Thornton, his former jazz dance teacher and later choreographer, whom he married in 1997, have two children together: Annie Mae ( born 1998) and Christopher Michael ( born 1999).

Results

  • J = Junior
1999 World Figure Skating Championships 2000 World Figure Skating Championships Single skating 1964 Summer Olympics U. S. Figure Skating Championships World Junior Figure Skating Championships Toe loop jump List of Olympic medalists in figure skating Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics 1997 World Figure Skating Championships 1998 World Figure Skating Championships 2002 World Figure Skating Championships 2003 World Figure Skating Championships 2004 World Figure Skating Championships International Skating Union Dennis Coi Paul Wylie Christopher Bowman Todd Eldredge Igor Pashkevich Dmitri Dmitrenko Johnny Weir Daisuke Takahashi Nobunari Oda Adam Rippon Andrei Rogozine Sherwin Badger Chris Christenson Robin Lee Hayes Alan Jenkins Bradley Lord Monty Hoyt Thomas Litz Scott Allen Tim Wood (figure skater) John Misha Petkevich Kenneth Shelley Terry Kubicka Charles Tickner Evan Lysacek Jeremy Abbott Ryan Bradley Max Aaron
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