Sarah Hughes

Sarah Hughes ( born May 2, 1985 in Manhasset, Long Iceland, New York) is a former American figure skater who started in a single run. She is the Olympic champion from 2002.

Hughes is the fourth of six children of a Jewess Amy Pastarnack, a breast cancer survivor and John Hughes, a Canadian of Irish descent, the captain of the NCAA champion from 1970, the ice hockey team at Cornell University. Her younger sister Emily is also a figure skater and participated in the 2006 Olympic Games. Through the experience with her ​​mother's illness Hughes committed to breast cancer prevention. Furthermore, it allows free training sessions for girls in Harlem, New York.

Hughes began at the age of three years with the figure skating. Your coach was Robin Wagner, who she worked up to their participation in the World Junior Championship. In 1998, she was U.S. junior champion. Her first national championship in the seniors she denied a year later and finished it in fourth place. In the same year she won the silver medal at the Junior World Championships and also took part in their first World Cup in the senior part, as the runner-up at the national championships, Naomi Nari Nam, which would have been really qualified, was too young. Hughes was actually too young, but had already participated in the Junior World Championships, so this rule was no longer for them. She finished the championship in seventh place.

In 2000, she reached the third for the first time on the podium at the national championships. At the World Championships she was able to improve up two places to fifth position in the previous year.

In 2001, she was U.S. Vice-Champion behind Michelle Kwan in Vancouver and won bronze behind Kwan and Irina Sluzkaja their first and only World Championship medal.

The year 2002 was their most successful year. By the third place at the national championships behind Michelle Kwan and Sasha Cohen, she qualified for the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. It lay there after the short program to fourth place. In her freestyle, she landed seven triple jumps, inclusive of two triple - triple combinations. Hughes won the freestyle ( with five to four judges votes against Irina Sluzkaja ) and as the runners made ​​mistakes in front of her, also an Olympic gold medal. Russia lodged a protest against the result, but this was rejected. Hughes did not participate in the next World Cup. Later this year they released their biography "Sudden Champion: The Sarah Hughes Story", written by Richard Krawiec.

Hughes was Magda Julin since (1920 ), the first Olympic champion in figure skating ladies who had never been World Champion and it still does not was. She is also the first American bearer of this title, which was never national champion.

2003 Hughes was U.S. vice- champion and took on their last world championship in sixth place. After she finished her competitive career and began studying at Yale University. In the season 2004/ 05 she took a break from studying and ran at a revue. In 2009 she graduated from the University with a bachelor 's degree in American Studies with a focus on U.S. policy.

Results

  • J = Junior
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