Peggy Fleming

Peggy Gale Fleming ( born July 25, 1948 in San Jose, California ) is a former American figure skater who started in a single run. She is the Olympic champion of 1968 and the World Champion from 1966 until 1968.

Peggy Fleming was born in San Jose, California, the daughter of Doris Elizabeth Deal and newspaper journalists Eugene Fleming. She began figure skating at the age of nine years. First, she coached at William Kipp. When this came in 1961 on the way to the world championship in Prague in the plane crash of the U.S. team killed, Carlo Fassi was their new coach. Fleming was considered extremely elegant runner and was a direct competitor of Gabriele Seyfert.

From 1964 to 1968 Fleming became U.S. champion in figure skating ladies. During the same period, she participated in the World Championships. Your first medal there, she won already in their second participation in 1965 in Colorado Springs. She won bronze behind the Canadian Petra Burka and the Austrian Regine Heitzer. A year later, in Davos their first World Cup title. She won by a unanimous judges' ruling against its main competitor Gaby Seyfert from the GDR. At the World Championship 1967 in Vienna, she defended her title again unanimously against Seyfert. This was Fleming again in 1968 in Geneva. There, she won her third gold in a row in their last World Cup. At the Olympic Games in Grenoble, its second after 1964 in Innsbruck, where they had become Sixth, it was, as expected, Olympic champion in front of Seyfert. Peggy Fleming was very famous, because the Winter Olympics in 1968 for the first time transmitted in color television in the U.S., she won the only gold medal for the USA in these games and it was also the first internationally successful American figure skater since the plane crash of 1961. She was honored in 1968 with the Sportsman of the Year Award from the Associated Press.

After her Olympic win, she moved to the pros and Ice Capades went to the Revue. She also made ​​guest appearances in the Ice Follies Revue, where the much-admired highlight was her solo run in blue light to Ave Maria. Fleming ran for four U.S. presidents. In 1976, she was inducted into the Figure Skating Hall of Fame.

Fleming has three siblings. She married in 1970 the dermatologist Dr. Greg Jenkins, who had been ice dancers in previous years. The couple has two sons, Andy, born in 1977 and Todd, born in 1988. 1998 was diagnosed with breast cancer Fleming, who could be successfully treated. She was grandmother in 1999. Meanwhile, she has three grandchildren.

Fleming has over 20 years Fernsehkommentatorin with the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). She is also a spokesperson for the National Osteoporosis Foundation in the USA and is involved as an activist for breast cancer control and prevention. Fleming and her husband own a wine region in California.

Results

Works

  • Peggy Fleming, Peter Kaminsky: The Long Program: Skating Toward Life's Victories. Pocket Books, New York 1999, ISBN 0-671-03886-9.
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