Linda Fratianne
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| Country represented | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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August 2, 1960 Los Angeles-Northridge, California, U.S. |
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| Height | 5' (152 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former coach | Frank Carroll | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 1980 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Linda Sue Fratianne (born August 2, 1960 in Los Angeles-Northridge, California) is an American former figure skater known for winning two World Championship titles (1977, 1979), four consecutive U.S. Championships (1977–1980), and a silver medal in the 1980 Winter Olympics.
Linda Fratianne's father was the former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Fratianne, who died in 2002. Her mother was Virginia Fratianne. Her parents were divorced.
From 1988 to 2001, Linda Fratianne was married to ski racer Nick Maricich. They have a daughter, Ali (b. 1991). Fratianne currently lives and coaches in Sun Valley, Idaho.
She is currently married since June 7, 2008 to digital artist and scarf designer Brentano Haleen.
Throughout her figure skating career, Fratianne was coached by Frank Carroll.
Fratianne became the first female skater to land two different types of triple jumps (toe loop and salchow) in her free skating programs in 1976 at the U.S. National Championships. At the World Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo, Japan in 1977, she won her first world title by upsetting the favorite going into the Championship: East Germany's Anett Pötzsch. Although Fratianne fell on her triple salchow jump in her free skating routine, the judges considered she was better overall than Pötzsch.
In 1979, Fratianne was able to regain her world title, which she had lost to Pötzsch in 1978 in Ottawa, Canada.
Her chief rivals were Anett Pötzsch (East Germany), Emi Watanabe (Japan), and Dagmar Lurz (West Germany). Like Watanabe, her compulsory figures were significantly weaker than her free skating; consequently, she frequently placed well below Pötzsch and Lurz in the compulsories, forcing her to attempt to overcome her deficiencies through strong short and free programs. In the short and free programs, Fratianne never placed lower than Pötzsch or Lurz between 1977 and 1980 in any competition. However, since the rules at the time placed much weight on compulsory figures, she was only able to win a major title twice.
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