Tiffany Chin
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| Full name | Tiffany Chin | |||||||||||||||||||||
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 United States
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October 3, 1967 Oakland, California |
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| Home town | San Diego, California | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Audrey Tiffany Chin (born October 3, 1967) is an American figure skater. She grew up in San Diego, California. She won the 1981 World Junior Figure Skating Championships. At the 1984 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, she finished second overall after winning both the short and long programs, and qualified for the 1984 United States Winter Olympic team. At Sarajevo Chin began the competition by placing 12th in the compulsory figures but rallied to place second in the short program and third in the long program for a fourth-place finish overall. Despite being thrilled with her performances and finish, many observers were upset Tiffany Chin had not won at least a bronze medal, which went to Kira Ivanova who due to a large advantage in figures held on for the bronze despite a very weak long program performance. She unfortunately had to miss that years World Championships due to injury.
She began the next Olympic quadrennium with a victory at the 1985 U.S. Championships, where despite a fall in the short program and a conservative long program, she finished first in all three phases of the competition. She was already showing a decline in consistency and technical level from the previous season, having not even attempted a triple flip all year, and having not done a successful triple salchow all season either, now relying almost exclusively on the triple toe. She was upset for the gold medal at that seasons Skate Canada by young phenom Midori Ito, with very rough performances in both the short and long programs.
At the 1985 World Championships, Chin was in a strong position to contend for the title after placing second in both the compulsory figures and the short program. However, in her free skate, she popped her triple Salchow into a single and fell on her final double axel, finishing third in the free program and third overall behind Katarina Witt and Kira Ivanova. As had been the case for Tiffany all season, the only triple she could manage in either free skating portion, was a triple toe. After the event, Chin's mother, Marjorie, pulled her off the ice for eight months, citing the need to address a muscle imbalance in her hips and legs. After undergoing a course of traditional medicine and chiropractic treatments, Chin began to relearn her skating technique under a new coach, Don Laws. She entered the 1986 U.S. Championships as an underdog and finished third overall behind Debi Thomas and Caryn Kadavy. Chin qualified for the World Championships in Geneva, where she placed fourth in the compulsories and tied for second in the short program to enter the long program in third place. With Witt defeating Thomas in the long program, Chin as the last skater was in position to possibly win the gold by winning the free skate, or to possibly aid Witt into passing Thomas for the gold should she have split them in the long program. A fourth-place finish in the long program (behind Witt, Thomas, and Elizabeth Manley) with one clean triple jump, one other triple with a slight touch down, several double axels, and good choreography and style, was enough to give her the bronze medal overall behind Thomas and Witt, a promising sign with her trying comeback, and after being only 3rd at her own Nationals.
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