1. Jeremy Abbott was born on June 5,1985 and is a former American figure skater.
44 Facts About Jeremy Abbott
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Jeremy Abbott is the 2008 Grand Prix Final champion, a two-time Four Continents bronze medalist, and a four-time US champion.
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Jeremy Abbott represented the United States at the 2010 Winter Olympics, where he placed ninth, and the 2014 Winter Olympics, where he won a bronze medal in the team event.
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Jeremy Abbott was born in Aspen, Colorado to Allison and Danny Abbott.
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Jeremy Abbott has an older sister, Gwen Abbott, a former nationally ranked downhill ski racer and 3X Winter X Games competitor in skier cross.
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Jeremy Abbott attended Cheyenne Mountain High School for five years, stretching his high school career out one year longer than the usual, so he could concentrate on both skating and getting good grades.
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Jeremy Abbott began competing at age four after being inspired by Robin Cousins.
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In 1999, Jeremy Abbott moved from Aspen to Colorado Springs to train at the Colorado Springs World Arena with Tom Zakrajsek.
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Jeremy Abbott won the Junior national title at the 2005 US Championships.
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Jeremy Abbott made it the slogan of his charitable fund, which he launched to help young male skaters struggling to pay coaching fees, ice time, and competition fees.
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Jeremy Abbott then placed fifth at the Midwestern Sectionals and missed a chance to go to the 2006 US Championships and compete for an Olympic berth.
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Jeremy Abbott later blamed his performance on his poor training habits, and said that he had become lazy after winning the junior national title; failing to make it out of sectionals gave him the motivation he needed.
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Jeremy Abbott won sectionals and advanced to the 2007 US Championships, where he won the pewter medal, the highest placement for a first-timer in the senior men's event in twenty years.
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Jeremy Abbott was named the first alternate to the World and Four Continents teams.
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When Johnny Weir withdrew from the 2007 Four Continents Championships, Jeremy Abbott was given the opportunity to compete at the event, which was held at his home rink, World Arena, Colorado Springs.
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Jeremy Abbott beat out his training mate Ryan Bradley to win the bronze medal.
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Jeremy Abbott placed fifth at the 2008 Four Continents Championships.
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Jeremy Abbott was sent to the 2008 World Championships after Evan Lysacek withdrew with injury, where he placed eleventh.
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Jeremy Abbott won the Grand Prix Final, becoming the first American man to do so, and achieved the highest total free skate score for an American man at that time.
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At the 2009 US Championships, Jeremy Abbott won both the short program and the free skate to win the gold medal.
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In May 2009, Jeremy Abbott switched coaches to Yuka Sato in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
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Jeremy Abbott then won the 2009 Skate Canada to qualify for the Grand Prix Final, where he placed fourth.
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At the 2010 US Championships, Jeremy Abbott won both segments of the competition to win the title overall, finishing 25 points ahead of the second place Evan Lysacek.
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At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, Jeremy Abbott placed fifteenth place in the short program.
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Jeremy Abbott earned a score of 149.56 in the free skate, placing ninth overall.
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Jeremy Abbott's training was hampered by the first serious boot problems of his career.
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Jeremy Abbott explained, "I could not get the blades mounted quite right, and they were never quite comfortable".
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At the 2011 US Championships, Jeremy Abbott was second after the short program, but struggled through parts of his free skate to finish fourth overall.
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Jeremy Abbott won his third pewter medal with a total score of 224.16, missing the bronze medal by just 0.19 points.
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The selection committee left him off the 2011 World Championships team, disappointing Jeremy Abbott who thought the rules stated that other results would be taken into consideration.
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Jeremy Abbott was named to the team to the 2011 Four Continents Championships instead, where he won the bronze medal.
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Jeremy Abbott later said they were not the two he had asked for, but it had worked out well.
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Jeremy Abbott placed third in both programs at the Cup of China and came away with the gold medal.
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At the Cup of Russia, Jeremy Abbott won the short program with a new personal best of 83.54 points.
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Jeremy Abbott placed fifth in the free skate and won the bronze medal overall.
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At the 2012 US Championships, Jeremy Abbott placed first in both programs and won his third national title.
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Jeremy Abbott withdrew from the 2012 Four Continents Championships due to back spasms.
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Jeremy Abbott finished fifth at his first Grand Prix event of the season, the 2012 Skate America.
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Jeremy Abbott won the silver medal at the 2012 Trophee Eric Bompard.
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Jeremy Abbott finished sixth at his first Grand Prix assignment, the 2013 Skate Canada International, and won the bronze medal at the second, the 2013 NHK Trophy.
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Jeremy Abbott finished first overall and was named to the US team to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
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Jeremy Abbott went on to compete at the 2014 World Championships, where he had a fourth place free skate and placed fifth overall.
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Since retiring from competition, Jeremy Abbott has started choreographing and coaching.
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Jeremy Abbott has choreographed programs for former two-time US champion Gracie Gold.