Lucinda Ruh
| Lucinda Ruh | |
|---|---|
| Personal information | |
| Country represented | Switzerland |
| Born |
13 July 1979 Zurich, Switzerland |
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
| Former coach | Liu Hongyun Oliver Höner Nobuo Sato Christy Ness |
| Former choreographer |
Robin Cousins Alexander Zhulin Toller Cranston Lea Ann Miller Sarah Kawahara Christopher Dean |
| Skating club | Club des Patineurs de Geneve |
| Former training locations | Tokyo, Japan; Toronto, Canada; San Francisco, California, USA; Harbin, China; Switzerland |
| Began skating | 1984 |
| Retired | 2000 |
Lucinda Martha Ruh (born 13 July 1979) is a Swiss former competitive figure skater. The 1996 Swiss national champion, she became known for her extreme flexibility and outstanding spinning ability. In April 2003, she set a world record for the most continuous spins (115) on one foot.
Lucinda Martha Ruh was born on 13 July 1979 in Zurich, Switzerland. Her family moved to Paris, France, not long after her birth and then to Tokyo, Japan, when she was four years old. She was initially more focused on ballet than skating and at age seven received a scholarship to the Royal Ballet of London. She also practiced the piano and cello.
Ruh lives in Greenwich, Connecticut. In May 2012, she gave birth to twin girls, Angelica and Angelina.
Ruh began skating in 1984, soon after moving to Japan. She decided to focus on skating as her main activity when she was about eight.
In 1986, Ruh began working with coach Nobuo Sato. She won the bronze medal at the Japan Junior Championships in 1994. Although she initially enjoyed jumps, her interest in them waned as she grew to 5'9" (175.26 cm), "Since the center of gravity was higher, combined with the rigid training while growing, I never really had a chance to get my timing and balance back. As a result, injuries from bad falls plagued me even more and I started not liking jumps."
In 1996 she moved to Toronto, Canada to work with Toller Cranston. In 1997, she worked with Christy Ness in San Francisco, California but developed two Achilles tendinitis, a ruptured shoulder and Sciatica. In 1998 she moved to Harbin, China to train with Chen Lu's former coach, Hongyun Liu, but although her jumping improved, the Chinese federation objected to a non-national being trained by him. In December, she moved to Switzerland, where she met coach Oliver Höner; it was the first time she had resided in her birth country.
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