Peggy Gale Fleming was born on July 27,1948 and is an American former figure skater.
10 Facts About Peggy Fleming
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Peggy Fleming is the 1968 Olympic Champion in the ladies' singles, being the only American gold medalist at these Games, and a three-time World Champion in the same event.
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Peggy Fleming was born in San Jose, California, the daughter of Doris Elizabeth and Albert Eugene Peggy Fleming, a newspaper journalist and former US Marine.
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Peggy Fleming began skating at age nine when her father took Peggy and her three sisters skating.
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In 1961, when Peggy Fleming was twelve years old, her coach William Kipp was killed in the crash of Sabena Flight 548 along with the rest of the United States figure skating team while en route to the 1961 World Figure Skating Championships.
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Peggy Fleming had filmed a TV show in the USSR and skated to Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto in China.
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On June 13,1970, Peggy Fleming married her teenage sweetheart Greg Jenkins, a dermatologist and a former amateur figure skater.
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Peggy Fleming became a breast cancer activist who recommends not procrastinating and advocates for early detection.
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In 2007, Peggy Fleming appeared in the movie Blades of Glory as a judge.
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Peggy Fleming is an artist with works on display with the Art of the Olympians.