Tonya Harding
Tonya Harding , born the November 12th 1970 with Portland cement, is a artistic skater American. She was the first American one to make triple axel in competition. Its name is often associated with the Harding-Kerrigan business of the Olympic Games of Lillehammer in 1994. It devotes from now on to the English Boxe.
An unhappy childhood
One cannot say that the life of Tonya Harding in its childhood was a " long river tranquille". Indeed, the little girl, alive with an alcoholic mother and forces, undergoes many ill-treatments on behalf of this one. His/her mother threatening it, Tonya had to work ice-skating like a navvy, because the sentence in the event of bad work was made blows and insults. The rage of living of Tonya Harding came thus from this painful childhood, it which gave the impression to fight against the whole world
Harding-Kerrigan business
Little before the Olympic Games of 1994, Nancy Kerrigan is attacked and wounded with the knee. The investigation shows that the entourage of Tonya Harding is implied. Harding affirms to have been with the current only one month after the aggression which its close relations are implied but she will prevent the police force only when one speaks to him about the risks in the event of false witness.Nancy Kerrigan will be less wounded than one could have believed it and will gain the money medal during the Plays. Following this business, Tonya Harding will be excluded from the American federation of ice-skating. She was also condemned to a fine of 110.000$ and 500 work hours of general interest for false witness (for which she pled guilty). She is, thereafter, within a scandal with the exit of an erotic cassette of her wedding night for which she denies to have given her agreement. She also played in an unperceived last action film.
First American to carry out triple axel
At the time of the championships of the United States of 1991, Tonya Harding carried out for the first time of the history of American ice-skating a Triple axel, figure consisting in jumping and making three turns and half in the air. Tonya Harding will remain thus in the legend for this jump of exception.
Prize list (in figure skating)
- Olympic Games
- 4th with the Winter Olympics of 1992 with Albertville
- 8th with the Winter Olympics of 1994 with Lillehammer
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Championships of the United States
- 6th in 1986
- 5th in 1987
- 5th in 1988
- Bronze medal in 1989
- 7th in 1990
- Gold medal in 1991
- Bronze medal in 1992
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