Randy Gardner (figure skater)

Randy Gardner ( born December 2, 1958 in Los Angeles ) is an American former figure skater, who started pair skating.

Gardner's figure skating partner was Tai Babilonia. Both started with figure skating as Gardner and ten Babilonia was eight years old. Their coach was John Nicks. From 1976 to 1980, Gardner and Babilonia U.S. champion. Her debut at the World Championships they had in Munich, where they were ten in 1974. This result they repeated a year later. In the world peak they reached in 1976. Both at the World Championships as well as at the Olympics they finished fifth. Your first medal she won bronze behind the Soviet pairs Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev and Irina Worobjowa and Alexander Vlasov at the World Championships 1977 in Tokyo. Also in the following year they won the World Championship in Ottawa the bronze medal, this time behind Rodnina and Zaitsev and the GDR pair Manuela Mager and Uwe Bewersdorf. 1979 Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev paused because Rodnina was pregnant. Thus the way was clear for the U.S. pair. Gardner and Babilonia have been world champion in Vienna. It was the first world title in the pairs figure skating for the United States since 1950, when Karol and Peter Kennedy won and it was the whole second and so far last World Cup victory for the U.S. in pair skating. It was also the first non-Soviet world title in pairs figure skating since 1964.

The clash of Gardner / Babilonia and returning after maternity leave Rodnina / Zaitsev should be a highlight of the 1980 Olympic Games in Lake Placid. However, It came about due to an injury by Randy Gardner in training in Lake Placid not. He got on the day of the competition, a local anesthetic for the affected area to relieve the pain, but then could not control enough leg and let his partner in the warm-up area fall several times. Then the couple had to withdraw and Rodnina / Zaitsev stand idly at the Olympic victory. Then Gardner and Babilonia finished their amateur career and switched to the professionals. By 2008, they ran together in ice revues. In addition, Gardner worked as a choreographer and worked among others for the TV show Skating with Celebrities by the TV channel FOX.

Randy Gardner learned as an adult that he has been adopted. He sought subsequently after his biological mother and found them also. In 2006, Gardner outed as a homosexual.

Results

Pair of running

( with Tai Babilonia )

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1977 World Figure Skating Championships 1978 World Figure Skating Championships 1979 World Figure Skating Championships 1974 World Figure Skating Championships 1975 World Figure Skating Championships 1976 World Figure Skating Championships Alexander Gennadiyevich Zaitsev 1950 World Figure Skating Championships Peter Kennedy (figure skater) 1964 World Figure Skating Championships Fox Broadcasting Company Winter Olympic Games U. S. Figure Skating Championships Maribel Vinson Beatrix Loughran Sherwin Badger Yvonne Sherman Nancy Ludington Ronald Ludington Maribel Owen Dudley Richards Vivian Joseph Ronald Joseph Cynthia Kauffman Ronald Kauffman Kenneth Shelley Melissa Militano Mark Militano Kitty Carruthers Jill Watson Peter Oppegard Kristi Yamaguchi Todd Sand Jenni Meno John Zimmerman (figure skater)
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