Peter Oppegard
Peter Oppegard | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S. | August 23, 1959||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Figure skating career | |||||||||||||||||||||
Country | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||
Skating club | LAFSC (Los Angeles Figure Skating Club) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Peter Allen Oppegard (born August 23, 1959 in Knoxville, Tennessee)[1] is an American retired pair skater and coach. With his partner Jill Watson, he is the 1988 Olympic bronze medalist and a three-time U.S. national champion.
Oppegard initially paired with Vicki Heasley. He began competing with Watson in 1985. In their career, Watson and Oppegard won three national titles, a world bronze medal, an Olympic bronze medal, and various other medals. During Watson and Oppegard's free skate at the 1988 Olympics, a photographer dropped his camera bag onto the ice and an usher walked onto the ice to pick it up while the pair was performing an overhead lift.[2]
Oppegard later skated with Cindy Landry for a short time.
His skaters have won 10 national singles and pairs titles. The Professional Skaters Association and US Figure Skating has named Oppegard "Choreographer of the Year" and "Coach of the Year". [1]
Jill Watson and Peter Oppegard were inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2004.
He coaches at the East West Ice Palace in southern California. He is married to Karen Kwan, sister of world champion figure skater Michelle Kwan, and they have 2 daughters, Olivia Colett Oppegard and Sophia Oppegard.
On October 5, 2010, it was announced that he will become coach of Olympic champion figure skater, Yuna Kim of South Korea.[3]
Results
With Watson
International | ||||
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Event | 84–85 | 85–86 | 86–87 | 87–88 |
Winter Olympics | 3rd | |||
World Championships | 4th | 6th | 3rd | 6th |
Fujifilm Trophy | 1st | |||
NHK Trophy | 2nd | |||
Skate America | 1st | |||
National | ||||
U.S. Championships | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st |
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Peter Oppegard". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved April 23, 2015.
- ^ Janofsky, Michael (February 17, 1988). "Soviet Skaters Prevail in Pairs". The New York Times. Retrieved March 21, 2012.
- ^ Kim Yu Na names Peter Oppegard Coach LA Times
External links
- 1969 births
- American male pair skaters
- American figure skating coaches
- Figure skaters at the 1988 Winter Olympics
- Living people
- Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in figure skating
- Olympic figure skaters of the United States
- Olympic medalists in figure skating
- World Figure Skating Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 1988 Winter Olympics
- Sportspeople from Knoxville, Tennessee