Sasha Cohen
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Cohen performs an inside edge forward Arabesque penchée Spiral at the 2009 Stars on Ice in Halifax.
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| Full name | Alexandra Pauline Cohen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
October 26, 1984 Westwood, Los Angeles, California |
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| Home town | Newport Beach, California | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former coach | John Nicks, Rafael Arutyunyan, Tatiana Tarasova, Robin Wagner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former choreographer | Lori Nichol, Nikolai Morozov, David Wilson, Tatiana Tarasova, Marina Zueva, Igor Shpilband, Robin Wagner, Ekaterina Gordeeva | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skating club | Orange County FSC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Aliso Viejo, California Simsbury, Connecticut |
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| Began skating | 1992 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Combined total | 197.60 2003 Skate Canada |
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| Short program | 71.12 2003 Skate Canada |
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| Free skate | 130.89 2003 Skate America |
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Alexandra Pauline "Sasha" Cohen (born October 26, 1984) is an American figure skater. She is the 2006 Olympic silver medalist, a three-time World Championship medalist, the 2003 Grand Prix Final Champion, and the 2006 U.S. Champion.
Cohen was born in Westwood, California, a neighborhood in Los Angeles. Her full name is Alexandra Pauline Cohen. Her nickname "Sasha" is a Russian diminutive of "Alexandra". As a university student, she has used the name Alex rather than Sasha.
Her mother, Galina (née Feldman), is a Jewish immigrant from Ukraine and a former ballet dancer.
Her father, Roger Cohen, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law. Roger Cohen was formerly a law partner at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison.
Sasha Cohen graduated from Futures High School in Mission Viejo, California in 2002. As of 2011, she was enrolled as an undergraduate student at Columbia University. She has a younger sister, Natalia, who began college at Barnard College in August 2006.
In 2005, Cohen published her autobiography, Fire on Ice. The autobiography was republished in 2006 adding a new chapter on the 2006 season.
On July 5, 2015, it was announced that Cohen was engaged to boyfriend, Tom May. On August 20, 2016, the couple got married in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
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