Judy Blumberg
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| Full name | Judith Ann Blumberg | ||||||||||||||||||
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 United States
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September 13, 1957 Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
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| Former partner | Michael Seibert | ||||||||||||||||||
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Judith Ann "Judy" Blumberg (born September 13, 1957) is an American former competitive ice dancer. With Michael Seibert, she is a three-time World bronze medalist (1983–85), the 1980 Skate Canada International champion, the 1981 Skate America champion, and a five-time U.S. national champion (1981–85).
Blumberg was born in Santa Monica, California. She is the daughter of a clothing manufacturer and grew up in Tarzana, California.
She majored in special education at California State University, Northridge. She adopted a girl, Etienne. Her daughter was born c. 2006.
On the ice from the age of ten, Blumberg trained nearly three hours every morning and a few more hours following school in Tarzana, California. She switched from singles to ice dancing when she was around 19 years old and had one early partnership.
Blumberg met Michael Seibert at the 1977 U.S. Championships in Hartford, Connecticut. They soon tried out successfully but delayed the partnership for a year and a half until they had both relocated to Colorado Springs, Colorado. In 2014, recalling the start of their partnership, Blumberg stated, "I knew this would be the boy I would skate with. You know when you move similar to someone, when your knees work with someone."
In 1979, Blumberg/Seibert were awarded the bronze medal at their first U.S. Championships, having finished third behind Stacey Smith / John Summers and Carol Fox / Richard Dalley. The following year, they passed Fox/Dalley to take the silver medal behind Smith/Summers at the 1980 U.S. Championships in Atlanta. They were included in the U.S. team to the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. After placing 7th at the Olympics, the two concluded their season with a 6th-place result at the 1980 World Championships in Dortmund, West Germany.
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