Melissa Militano
| Melissa Militano | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Melissa Mary Militano | ||||||||||||||
| Born | April 26, 1955 Rockville Centre, New York, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Died | July 16, 2024 (aged 69) Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 0 in (152 cm) | ||||||||||||||
| Figure skating career | |||||||||||||||
| Country | United States | ||||||||||||||
| Skating club | SC of New York | ||||||||||||||
| Retired | 1975 | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Melissa Mary Militano (later Warkmeister; April 26, 1955 – July 16, 2024) was an American competitive figure skater who competed as a single skater and pair skater. As a pair skater, she won the U.S. Figure Skating Championships three times, in 1973 with her brother Mark Militano and in 1974 and 1975 with Johnny Johns. Their coaches included Peter Dunfield and Ron Ludington.
Biography
[edit]Melissa and Mark Militano represented the United States at the 1972 Winter Olympics where they placed 7th.
Militano was also a talented singles skater. At the 1970 United States Figure Skating Championships, she became one of the first female skaters to successfully perform a triple toe loop jump in competition, in a performance that won her the bronze medal in the junior ladies division.[1] At the 1971 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, she won the junior ladies title, again landing a clean triple toe loop.[2] She later gave up competing in singles skating to focus on pairs.
Militano and Johns retired from competitive skating in 1975 and toured with Ice Capades. After her marriage in 1979, she had little involvement with skating for many years, but later worked as a part-time coach in Las Vegas, Nevada. She died there after a brief battle with lymphoma on July 16, 2024, at the age of 69.[3]
Competitive highlights
[edit]Ladies' singles
[edit]| National | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Event | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 |
| U.S. Championships | 3rd J | 1st J | 8th |
| J = Junior level | |||
Pairs with Johnny Johns
[edit]| International | ||
|---|---|---|
| Event | 1974 | 1975 |
| World Championships | 8th | 6th |
| National | ||
| U.S. Championships | 1st | 1st |
Pairs with Mark Militano
[edit]| International | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Event | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 |
| Winter Olympics | 7th | ||||
| World Championships | 8th | 8th | 6th | 9th | 8th |
| North American Champ. | 4th | 2nd | |||
| National | |||||
| U.S. Championships | 3rd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 1st |
References
[edit]- ^ "U.S. Championships", Skating magazine, Apr 1970
- ^ "Nationals", Skating magazine, Apr 1971
- ^ "Paris Champion Melissa Militano Passes Away". US Figure Skating. July 18, 2024. Retrieved July 19, 2024.
- "Militano Warkmeister finds bliss in desert", Skating, Aug/Sept 2008.
- "Past U.S. Champions - Senior" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on February 9, 2012. (123 KiB)
External links
[edit]- Melissa Militano at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)