Kristiina Wegelius
Kristiina Wegelius | |
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Full name | Kristiina Marketta Wegelius |
Other names | Kristiina Fitzpatrick[1] |
Born | (1960-10-12) 12 October 1960 (age 63) Helsinki, Finland |
Height | 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) |
Figure skating career | |
Country | Finland |
Retired | 1983 |
Kristiina Marketta "Tintti"[2] Wegelius (born 12 October 1960)[1] is a Finnish former competitive figure skater. She won medals at Skate Canada International, Skate America, and NHK Trophy, as well as four Finnish national titles. Wegelius placed tenth at the 1980 Winter Olympics, as high as sixth at the World Championships (1981, 1983), and as high as fourth at the European Championships (1979, 1980, 1981). She was coached by Carlo Fassi.[3]
After retiring from competition, Wegelius performed with Disney on Ice and became a skating coach and choreographer.[4] As of January 2009, she was living with her husband and daughter, Khayla (born c. 1998), in Quebec City, Canada.[4]
Results
International | |||||||||
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Event | 74–75 | 75–76 | 76–77 | 77–78 | 78–79 | 79–80 | 80–81 | 81–82 | 82–83 |
Olympics | 10th | ||||||||
Worlds | 14th | 10th | 8th | 6th | 9th | 6th | |||
Europeans | 7th | 6th | 4th | 4th | 4th | 6th | 6th | ||
Skate America | 3rd | ||||||||
Skate Canada | 3rd | 2nd | |||||||
NHK Trophy | 1st | ||||||||
Ennia Challenge | 3rd | ||||||||
Richmond Trophy | 2nd | ||||||||
Nordics | 3rd | 1st | 1st | ||||||
National | |||||||||
Finnish Champ. | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st |
References
- ^ a b "Kristiina Wegelius". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.
- ^ "Kristiina Wegelius luovutti leikekirjansa Suomen Urheiluarkistoon" [Kristiina Wegelius gave a scrapbook to the Finnish Sports Archive] (in Finnish). Finnish Figure Skating Association. June 20, 2013. Archived from the original on April 23, 2016.
- ^ "Die Damen-Wahl". Der Spiegel (in German). December 10, 1979.
- ^ a b Saksa, Maija (January 11, 2009). "Mitä kuuluu Kristiina Wegelius?" [What happened to Kristiina Wegelius?] (in Finnish). Finnish Figure Skating Association. Archived from the original on April 23, 2016.
External links
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- 1979: Emi Watanabe
- 1980: Denise Biellmann
- 1981: Kristiina Wegelius
- 1982: Katarina Witt
- 1984–85: Midori Ito
- 1986–87: Katarina Witt
- 1988–91: Midori Ito
- 1992–93: Surya Bonaly
- 1994–95: Chen Lu
- 1996: Maria Butyrskaya
- 1997: Tanja Szewczenko
- 1998: Tatiana Malinina
- 1999: Maria Butyrskaya
- 2000: Irina Slutskaya
- 2001: Tatiana Malinina
- 2002: Yoshie Onda
- 2003: Fumie Suguri
- 2004: Shizuka Arakawa
- 2005: Yukari Nakano
- 2006: Mao Asada
- 2007: Carolina Kostner
- 2008: Mao Asada
- 2009: Miki Ando
- 2010: Carolina Kostner
- 2011: Akiko Suzuki
- 2012–13: Mao Asada
- 2014: Gracie Gold
- 2015: Satoko Miyahara
- 2016: Anna Pogorilaya
- 2017: Evgenia Medvedeva
- 2018: Rika Kihira
- 2019: Alena Kostornaia
- 2020–21: Kaori Sakamoto
- 2022: Kim Ye-lim
- 2023: Ava Marie Ziegler
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