Tiffany Chin
Audrey Tiffany Chin ( Chinese:陈婷婷, pinyin: Chén Tíngtíng ) ( born October 3, 1967 in Toluca Lake, California ) is a former American figure skater who started in a single run.
Chin, who grew up in San Diego, 1981 Junior World Champion and thereby entered initially in the footsteps of her countrywomen and Rosalynn Sumners Zayak Elaine, who had also become junior world champions before they should also achieve this with the seniors. 1983 Chin denied their first world championship in the seniors and finished ninth. In their first and only Olympics they finished in Sarajevo in 1984 to fourth place. The fact that it was enough to no medal, was mainly due to weak performance of duty, after they had lain only in twelfth place. So you no longer sufficient and the second-best short program and free skating for the third-best winning a medal. 1985 Chin won the national championship and bronze at the World Championships in Tokyo behind Katarina Witt and Kira Ivanova their first major international medal at the senior citizens. In contrast to her performance at the Olympics, she showed it a good duty performance, the second best in the field, but made in the freestyle easy from the planned triple Salchow and double Axel crashed while. After the tournament, her mother Chin took eight months out of the competitions and had them because of the mismatch of their muscles in the hips and legs treat. After the break it was regarded as an outsider at the national championships, but finished third and qualified for the World Cup in Geneva, where she was surprisingly defend their bronze medal, this time behind her compatriot Debi Thomas and Witt. After she failed to qualify for the 1987 World Championships, she finished her amateur career.
During her career, Chin had numerous coaches, what was unusual at that time and was also criticized, including by Scott Hamilton. As a child she was trained by Mabel Fairbanks, then they changed their recommendation to Janet Champion. Chin's mother Marjorie Champion but dismissed and hired Frank Carroll, Chin led to the Junior World Championship title. Because of disputes between Carroll and Chin's mother, Carroll ended the collaboration. Then John Nicks Chin became a coach. Under him, she stood triple Axel jumps. After a growth spurt and recurrent muscle problems, who took it the ability for most triple jumps, she left Nick and trained with Don Laws. Chin was one of the few skaters in the eighties, which had all five triple jumps in his repertoire, but after 1985 they could no triple flip and toe loop jump more. In the autumn of 1986 she returned to Nick's back and then in 1987, before she ended her career, Carroll. Then she started studying English literature at UCLA. Later she worked as a trainer, including for Beatrisa Liang. In 1997, she married Steven Kan and has with him a son.