Tonya Harding

Tonya Maxine Harding ( born November 12, 1970 in Portland, Oregon) is a former American figure skater who started in a single run.

Early years

Harding is the daughter of Lavona and Al Harding. She had a deceased half-brother. Her father suffered from health problems that it temporarily impossible for him to work. Harding alleged to have been abused by her mother, but what these contests. Tonya Harding suffered from asthma since childhood. It started early with the ice skating and ended up with 12 years of her first triple lutz. Her mother made ​​many of her costumes. The school broke from Harding, but was comparable with a high school diploma General Educational Development test.

Figure skating career

In 1986, Harding for the first time at the national championships and finished sixth. In 1987 she showed at Skate America was the first woman a triple axel in the short program, the first woman to be successful in the long program was two triple Axel jumps and the first woman to do a triple axel in combination with another jump ( a double toe loop ) was demonstrated. Your first medal at the national level, she won 1989 bronze behind Jill Trenary and Kristi Yamaguchi. In 1991 it was U.S. champion. In this competition she landed a triple axel, the first at U.S. Championships in the women's competition. At their first World Cup she was then in Munich World silver medalist behind her teammate Kristi Yamaguchi and before her compatriot Nancy Kerrigan. It was the first time that all medal winners from the Ladies competition of a World Cup came from the same country. In this World Cup, she stood in the freestyle as the first American woman and second woman ever after Midori Ito, a triple axel. After 1991 it was no triple axel more. In 1992 she qualified as a third party at the national championships but again for international events. At the Olympic Games in Albertville in 1992, she finished fourth at the World Championships in 1992 and sixth. In 1993, she placed herself at the national level in fourth and could not qualify for the World Cup.

Attack on Kerrigan

Became world-famous Harding. Due to an assassination attempt on 6 January 1994 on her rival Nancy Kerrigan during training for the U.S. Championship Her then husband commissioned and paid the assassin for the execution of this attack. This injured Nancy Kerrigan with an iron bar at the knee, which consequently could not continue the contest. Tonya Harding won the U.S. Championships in 1994. The title, however, was her revoked after Tonya Harding's connections to the assassination were known.

The investigation was completed after the 1994 Winter Olympics, so that Tonya Harding was judicially enforce their participation in the Olympic Winter Games against the resistance of the U.S. NOK. She was convicted only because of the obstruction of investigations. The punishment was three years imprisonment on probation, 500 hours community service and a fine of $ 160,000. Tonya Harding was also banned for life for all figure skating championships.

Life after figure skating

In subsequent years, Tonya Harding came repeatedly into conflict with the law. Your marriage is now divorced. As of 2002, the 1.55 m wide Harding was a professional boxer and also took trips to the Catcher scene. In 2003, she briefly played hockey.

19 February 2011 Harding became the mother of a son by her new husband.

Results

* The title was later stripped of her because of the iron bar attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan

Documentary

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