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Michael Weiss
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Michael Weiss in 2010
Personal information
Country represented United States
Born (1976-08-02) August 2, 1976 (age 40)
Washington, DC
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Coach Don Laws, Audrey Weisiger
Choreographer Lisa Thornton-Weiss, Peter Tchernyshev
Skating club Washington, FSC
Former training locations Fairfax, Virginia
Laurel, Maryland
Began skating 1985
Retired 2006
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 206.94
2003 Skate America
Short program 73.85
2003 Skate America
Free skate 133.09
2003 Skate America

Michael Weiss (born August 2, 1976) is an American former competitive and currently professional figure skater. He is a three-time national champion (1999, 2000, 2003) a two-time World bronze medalist (1999, 2000), and a two-time Olympic team member.

Michael Weiss was born August 2, 1976 in Washington, DC. His father, Greg, was a gymnast on the 1964 Olympic team, and his mother, Margie, was also a gymnast and national champion. His sister Geremi was a figure skater and junior national silver medalist; his other sister, Genna, was junior world diving champion.

Weiss graduated from Wilbert Tucker Woodson High School in Fairfax, Virginia. He holds an associate degree in business marketing from Prince George's Community College. Weiss was a member of the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society. In September 1997, he married his jazz dance teacher, Lisa Thornton. Their daughter, Annie-Mae, was born in September 1998 and their son, Christopher Michael, in October 1999.

Weiss began skating in 1986. Audrey Weisiger coached him from the age of nine. Weiss took the silver medal at the 1993 World Junior Championships in Seoul, South Korea and won gold at the 1994 World Junior Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

At the 1997 U.S. Championships, Weiss attempted to become the first American to land the quad toe loop. It was initially believed to have been successful but three hours after the competition, U.S. Figure Skating ruled that the jump had been two-footed and decided not to ratify it. He pulled up from fifth after the short program to take the silver medal behind Todd Eldredge and was sent to Lausanne, Switzerland to compete at his first World Championships, where he finished seventh.


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