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Tonya Harding: Competition
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These pictures are a perfect match for the ones in a video made when Tonya Harding was 14. She was phoning to tell her mother that she had placed sixth in her first major competition.
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Tonya Harding became the first U.S. woman to land the jump in competition when she completed it 45 seconds into her free skate at the 1991 U.S. championships. The second young woman to land the triple axel was cute and bouncy teenager, 15 year old Kimmie Meissner on January 15, 2005. She finished third place after landing the triple axel during the U.S. Figure Skating Championships here in Portland, Oregon.
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Tonya Harding, former figure skating champion and the only woman to land a triple axle in competition, talks about skating and fighting, and performs in NYC's Central Park for The Early Show. | Share
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Tonya Maxine Harding (born November 12, 1970) is an American former figure skater and celebrity. Despite a tough childhood in an unstable family, as well as being plagued by asthma, she became an elite figure skater. She won the U.S. Figure Skating Championships twice and placed second in the 1991 World Championships. She was the second woman, and the first American woman, to complete a triple axel jump in competition.
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Tonya Maxine Harding (born November 12, 1970) is a figure skater from Portland, Oregon. After a tough childhood in an unstable lower-class family, plagued by asthma, she went on to win the U.S. national figure skating competition twice and place second in the 1991 world championship. She was the second woman, and the first American, to ever complete the Triple Axel jump in a competition.
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