John Zimmerman (figure skater)
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Ina and Zimmerman in 2001.
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| Full name | John Luther Zimmerman IV | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||
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November 26, 1973 Birmingham, Alabama |
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| Residence | Hackensack, New Jersey | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Partner | Kyoko Ina | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Former partner | Brie Teaboldt Stephanie Stiegler |
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| Former coach |
Tamara Moskvina Igor Moskvin Peter Burrows |
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| Former choreographer |
Alexander Zhulin Artur Dmitriev |
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| Skating club | Birmingham FSC | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 2002 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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John Luther Zimmerman IV (born November 26, 1973) is an American professional pair skater and coach. With skating partner Kyoko Ina, he is the 2002 World bronze medalist and a three-time U.S. national champion. They also competed at the 2002 Olympics.
Zimmerman was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He has two older sisters. He married Italian-American skater Silvia Fontana on August 28, 2003. They have two daughters – Sofia, born on April 2, 2012 at Northwest Medical Center in Coconut Creek, Florida, and Eva, born on June 2, 2013. Their son, John Luther, was born in 2016.
Zimmerman has worked as a model, appearing in photo shoots for Barneys New York and various designers. He and Fontana also appeared on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy in 2004, and made appearances for Am/FAR, amongst other charities. In 2003, an access bridge at his alma mater, Homewood High School, was named after him.
Zimmerman started skating at age 3 at a mall. He briefly partnered with Brie Teaboldt for the 1994-95 season. Then he paired with Stephanie Stiegler from 1995 through 1998, and won the bronze medal at the 1997 U.S. Figure Skating Championships while being coached by Peter Oppegard. Their partnership ended in 1998 due to injuries.
Zimmerman teamed up with Kyoko Ina in 1998. Initially, they were coached by Peter Burrows and Mary Lynn Gelderman in Monsey, New York and they also commuted to Stamford, Connecticut to work with Tamara Moskvina. They later trained under Mosvkina and Igor Moskvin in Hackensack, New Jersey.
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