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Tara Lipinski Biography
Tara Lipinski is one of the most popular and richest Figure Skater who was born on June 10, 1982 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. U.S. figure skater who was awarded Olympic gold in Nagano in 1998. She set an all-time record of the fastest gold medalist of the WInter Olympics at the age of 15.
A fellow American figure skater Fellow American skater Michelle Kwan also medalled at the 1998 Olympics. also was a winner in her 1998 Olympics.
Tara Lipinski was born on June 10, 1982 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the only child of Patricia (née Brozyniak) and oil executive and lawyer Jack Lipinski. She spent her earliest years in Sewell, New Jersey. All four of her grandparents were born in Poland.
Tara Kristen Lipinski (born June 10, 1982) is an American former competitive figure skater, actor, and sports commentator. A former competitor in ladies’ singles, she is the 1998 Olympic champion, the 1997 World champion, a two-time Champions Series Final champion (1997–1998), and the 1997 U.S. national champion. She was until 2019, the youngest skater to win a U.S. Nationals. She was also the youngest skater to win a World Figure Skating title and the youngest to win an Olympic gold medal. She is the first woman to complete a triple loop-triple loop combination, her signature jump, in competition.
The daughter of a secretary as well as an oilman She and her mother relocated to Delaware to keep her skating lessons going. She got married to Fox Sports producer Todd Kapostasy in 2017.
| Name | Tara Lipinski |
| First Name | Tara |
| Last Name | Lipinski |
| Occupation | Figure Skater |
| Birthday | June 10 |
| Birth Year | 1982 |
| Place of Birth | Philadelphia |
| Home Town | Pennsylvania |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Gemini |
| Full/Birth Name | |
| Parents | Patricia Lipinski, Jack Richard Lipinski |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Todd Kapostasy |
| Children(s) | Not Available |
Ethnicity, religion & political views
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At Skate America, Kwan defeated Lipinski for the first time in four competitions and won the gold medal. Lipinski came in second place after Kwan in both her short program and free skate and took second place over all. Despite performing more difficult jumps than Kwan during her short program, Lipinski received “consistently lower” required element scores. During her free skate, in “an otherwise strong and technically difficult performance”, she fell while performing a triple-lutz combination jump. According to Kestnbaum, Callaghan “expressed bewilderment in why the judges had so marked down the reigning world champion, who by virtue of that position might otherwise have been expected to receive the benefit of any doubt”. Lipinski came in second place at Trophée Lalique, behind French skater Laetitia Hubert, who had not won a major competition since the 1992 World Junior Championships, and who had come in eleventh place at her previous competition.
Tara Lipinski Net Worth
Tara Lipinski is one of the richest Figure Skater from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tara Lipinski's net worth $16 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
She started ice skating in 1988, however she initially began as an roller skater. Her debut major event in the year 1990 when she came in second.
She was the winner of her first World Championships in 1997 as in addition to winning the Grand Prix Final in both 1997 and 1998.
Lipinski was the youngest Olympic gold medalist in figure skating history. She was the sixth American woman to win an Olympic gold medal. Kwan finished in second place, and Chinese skater Lu Chen was the “surprise bronze medal winner”. Lipinski was two months younger than Sonja Henie when she came in first place at the Olympics in 1928, breaking a record that had stood for 70 years. It was the first time singles skaters from the same country won the gold and silver medals at the Olympics since Americans Tenley Albright and Carol Heiss did it in 1956.
| Net Worth | $16 Million |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | Figure Skater |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living in own house. |
Reporter Jere Longman of The New York Times called Lipinski’s free skate “a light, airy performance” and said she was “composed and nearly flawless”. Longman reported that Lipinski opened with a double axel, and included a triple flip and her “signature triple-loop, triple-loop combination”. She received 5.8’s and 5.9’s in her technical scores and a 5.7 and 5.8 for her presentation scores. The final results after the free skate were close; Longman stated that the judges were unable to declare a clear winner of the free skate. Lipinski, Kwan (who was fourth after the short program), and Russian skater Irina Slutskaya all received first-place votes. In what Swift called “a split decision”, Kwan’s free skate came in first place because she had more first- and second-place votes, and Lipinski came in first place overall because she received more second-place votes in the free skate than Slutskaya. Longman reported that if two more judges had placed Slutskaya before Lipinski after the free skate, Kwan would have won the competition but instead came in second place. It was the first time the U.S. finished first and second at Worlds since 1992, when Kristi Yamaguchi won the gold medal and Nancy Kerrigan won the silver medal.
Lipinski is Catholic; she had a devotion to St. Therese of Lisieux since 1994. Lipinski credited St. Therese for her Olympic win in 1998 and the recovery from her hip surgery in 2000. She wore a necklace with a good-luck charm, given to her by her uncle, that said, “Short, but good”, as well as a medal of St. Therese, given to her by Rev. Vince Kolo, a Catholic priest from Pittsburgh, during the Olympics. She thanked St. Therese at the kiss and cry after her short program in Nagano, and her coach held a small statue of St. Therese during her long program. Lipinski would also place a statue of the saint on the boards before every competition. A few months after the Nagano Olympics, she donated her medal and costume to an exhibit. Ann Rogers-Melnick of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported in 2001 that Lipinski had established a playroom in Saint Therese’s honor in the children’s ward in a Detroit hospital. Lipinski told Rogers-Melnick that roses, a symbol of St. Therese, had “always appeared at her best and worst moments”.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
Tara Lipinski height 5 ft 1 in Tara weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.
| Height | 5 ft 1 in |
| Weight | Not Known |
| Body Measurements | Under Review |
| Eye Color | Not Available |
| Hair Color | Not Available |
| Feet/Shoe Size | Not Available |
When Lipinski was 2, while watching the 1984 Summer Olympics, she stood on a Tupperware bowl and pretended to be a gold medalist. At the age of 3, she began roller skating; when she was 9 years old, she became a national champion in her age group. She began figure skating when she was 9, transferring her skills to the ice rink, later switching exclusively to figure skating and taking lessons at the University of Delaware. In 1991, Lipinski’s father received a job promotion, so the family moved to Sugar Land, Texas near Houston. She trained at the Houston Galleria, an upscale mall with a public rink. Two years later, in 1993, her father stayed in Texas to support the family and Lipinski and her mother moved back to Delaware to resume her training there with coach Jeff DiGregorio, who worked with Lipinski, on and off, for three years before their move to Texas. In 1995, Lipinski and her mother moved to Bloomfield, Michigan to train with coach Richard Callaghan at the Detroit Skating Club.
Lipinski and Callaghan spent the next year making her “appear more mature”; she enrolled in ballet classes and hired choreographer Sandra Bezic to “create programs for Lipinski that expressed delight yet looked adult”. In late 1996, she added the triple loop-triple loop combination, which became her signature jump and added technical difficulty to her programs. She was the first women to complete the combination in competition. Lipinski competed in the ISU Champions Series (later renamed the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating) during the 1996–1997 season; she finished in second place at Skate Canada, third at Trophée Lalique, and second at the 1996 Nations Cup. She won the gold medal at the Champion Series final and defeated Michelle Kwan by completing more successful jumps in her short and free programs.
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Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for Tara Lipinski. You may help us to build the dating records for Tara Lipinski!In 1994, Lipinski earned a silver medal in the novice women’s division at the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. When she was 12, she became the youngest athlete to win a gold medal at the 1994 U.S. Olympic Festival and took first place in her first international competition, the Blue Swords in Chemnitz, Germany. According to Cosmopolitan Magazine, the media began to notice Lipinski after Blue Swords in November 1994. As a junior skater, she came in fourth place at the 1995 World Junior Figure Skating Championships and with six triples in her long program, second place at the 1995 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. In late 1995, she placed fifth at the 1996 World Junior Figure Skating Championships; according to the Washington Post, the competition marked “the end of the relationship between the Lipinskis and DiGregorio”.
Facts & Trivia
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After what sports writer E.M. Swift called a “whirlwind coaching tour”, when Lipinski and her mother interviewed and Lipinski took sample lessons from figure skating coaches around the country, they hired Richard Callaghan. In January 1996, Lipinski won a bronze medal as a senior-level skater at the 1996 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. She closed out the 1995–1996 season and gained international attention by qualifying for the 1996 World Figure Skating Championships. In what figure skating historian James Hines called “a disappointing first outing”, she placed 22nd after the short program, but her long program, which included seven triple jumps and which Sports Illustrated called “sparkling”, brought her up to 15th place.
Does Tara Lipinski have a child?
Tara Lipinski does not have any children.
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Why did Tara Lipinski retire?
In March 1998, Lipinski announced her decision to withdraw from the 1998 World Figure Skating Championships, citing a serious glandular infection that required her to have two molars extracted, constant fatigue, and possible mononucleosis.
Who is the youngest Winter Olympic gold medalist?
On 9 February 2014, Russian Yulia Lipnitskaya (15 years, 249 days old, born 5 June 1998) won gold in the team event at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, and was six days younger than Tara Lipinski but not younger than Kim Yun-Mi who is still the youngest-ever gold medalist.
Why figure skaters retire so early?
Young, teen skaters often retire early due to injury or exhaustion. Wong said, “I would love to see more skaters be able to have a more sustainable, long term career rather than people peaking at a certain age and not getting to that point again.”
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