Nancy Ann Kerrigan was born on October 13,1969 and is an American figure skater and actress.
47 Facts About Nancy Kerrigan
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Nancy Kerrigan won bronze medals at the 1991 World Championships and the 1992 Winter Olympics, silver medals at the 1992 World Championships and the 1994 Winter Olympics, as well as the 1993 US National Figure Skating Championship.
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At the Olympics, Nancy Kerrigan won the silver medal in a controversial showdown with gold medal winner Oksana Baiul.
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Nancy Kerrigan then started touring and performed with several ice skating troupes that included Champions on Ice and Broadway on Ice.
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Nancy Kerrigan did not start private lessons until age eight and won her first competition, the Boston Open, at age nine.
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Nancy Kerrigan was coached by Theresa Martin until she was 16, then began working with Evy and Mary Scotvold after a brief period with Denise Morrissey.
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Nancy Kerrigan began to reach prominence at the national level when she placed fourth at the junior level at the 1987 US Figure Skating Championships.
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Nancy Kerrigan made an early impression as a strong jumper, but was comparatively weak in compulsory figures.
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Nancy Kerrigan made her senior debut the following season, moving up the national rankings each year: 12th in 1988, fifth in 1989, when she was the bronze medal winner at the 1989 Winter Universiade and fourth in 1990.
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Nancy Kerrigan continued to be held back by compulsory figures until they were eliminated from competitions after the 1990 season.
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Nancy Kerrigan's rise at the national level continued when she placed third at the 1991 US Figure Skating Championships.
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Nancy Kerrigan's medal was part of the first-ever sweep of the women's podium by a single country at the World Championships, as her teammates Kristi Yamaguchi and Tonya Harding won gold and silver, respectively.
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Nancy Kerrigan won a bronze medal in the 1992 Winter Olympics and earned the silver medal at the 1992 World Championships.
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Nancy Kerrigan admitted that she would have to improve her skating in time for the World Championships.
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Nancy Kerrigan won the short program at the World Championships in Prague, but had a disastrous free skate that resulted in her tumbling to fifth in the standings.
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Nancy Kerrigan began working with a sports psychologist to better handle her nerves in competition.
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On January 6,1994, at the US Figure Skating Championships in Detroit, As Nancy Kerrigan was walking through a corridor at Cobo Arena immediately after a practice session, she was bludgeoned on the right lower thigh with a police baton by an assailant, who was later apprehended and identified as Shane Stant.
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The conspirators' goal was to prevent Nancy Kerrigan from competing in both the National Championships and the Lillehammer 1994 Olympics.
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Nancy Kerrigan recovered quickly from her injury and resumed her intensive training.
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Nancy Kerrigan practiced by doing complete back-to-back, double run-throughs of her programs until she felt completely confident in her ability to compete under pressure.
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In late 2005, Nancy Kerrigan expressed objections to Shane Stant's wishes to have the attack removed from his record so he could join the Navy SEALs, which do not recruit anyone with a felony conviction.
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The ladies single skating event of the 1994 Winter Olympics in the Hamar Olympic Amphitheatre of Norway took place seven weeks after the attack, and Nancy Kerrigan skated what she considered to be the best two performances of her life in the short program and free skate.
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Nancy Kerrigan won the silver medal, finishing second to Oksana Baiul and ahead of Chen Lu as Tonya Harding finished in eighth place amid controversy.
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Nancy Kerrigan appeared to display dissatisfaction and disappointment with her second-place finish.
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Nancy Kerrigan elected not to attend the closing ceremonies at the Olympics.
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Nancy Kerrigan's agent claimed this was because Norwegian security had advised her to leave due to death threats that had been made against her, but this was later denied.
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Nancy Kerrigan said that her parents had always taught her not to show off or brag about her accomplishments.
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Nancy Kerrigan was inducted into the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2004.
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Nancy Kerrigan was honored at Ice Theatre of New York's annual benefit gala in 2008.
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Nancy Kerrigan wore another white dress trimmed with black velvet bands and sheer black sleeves for the original program and a champagne-colored dress set with 11,500 rhinestones for the free skate.
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Nancy Kerrigan appeared in a few competitions such as Ice Wars, but focused her career on performing in a variety of ice shows.
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Nancy Kerrigan has appeared in Champions on Ice, Broadway on Ice, and an ice show adaptation of the musical Footloose, among other productions.
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In 2003, Nancy Kerrigan became a national spokeswoman for Fight for Sight.
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In 1994, Nancy Kerrigan hosted Saturday Night Live, season 19 episode 15, featuring musical guest Aretha Franklin.
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In 1995, Nancy Kerrigan had a guest appearance on Boy Meets World in the episode "Wrong Side of the Track" where she helps Eric Matthews discover his potential for skating in a dream sequence.
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In 2004, Nancy Kerrigan sang a cover of "The Best" for a Tina Turner tribute album.
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Nancy Kerrigan appeared in the Fox television program Skating with Celebrities and played a small part in the ice-skating comedy feature film Blades of Glory with Will Ferrell.
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Nancy Kerrigan hosted Nancy Kerrigan's World of Skating on the Comcast Network starting in 2005, and has done commentary work for other skating broadcasts.
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On July 10,2016, Nancy Kerrigan competed against Kayla Harrison on the "Battle of the Olympians" episode of the television program, Flea Market Flip.
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On March 1,2017, Nancy Kerrigan was named as one of the contestants who would compete on season 24 of Dancing with the Stars.
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In December 2017, a fictional movie about Tonya Harding and the attack on Nancy Kerrigan, entitled I, Tonya, was released; Caitlin Carver played Nancy Kerrigan.
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In January 2018, Nancy Kerrigan joined Inside Edition as their Super Bowl correspondent.
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Nancy Kerrigan appeared in an episode of Fresh Off the Boat as herself.
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Nancy Kerrigan graduated from Stoneham High School and attended Emmanuel College in Boston to study business.
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Nancy Kerrigan created the Nancy Kerrigan Foundation, which aims to raise awareness and support for the vision-impaired.
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Nancy Kerrigan married her agent Jerry Solomon on September 9,1995, the year after she retired from competition.
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Nancy Kerrigan said that the miscarriages were "devastating" and "a strain" on the marriage.