Timothy Lyle Wood
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| Full name | Timothy Lyle Wood | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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June 21, 1948 Highland Park, Michigan, U.S. |
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| Former coach | Ronnie Baker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skating club | Detroit Skating Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Timothy Lyle "Tim" Wood (born June 21, 1948) is an American former figure skater. He is a two-time World champion, the 1968 Olympic silver medalist, and a three-time U.S. national champion.
Born on June 27, 1948 in Highland Park, Michigan, Timothy Lyle Wood is the youngest of four sons of Kenneth Wood, a surgeon known for his work with lung cancer patients. In 1968, he was a pre-law student at John Carroll University. He later attended a graduate school in accounting.
Wood was taught by English coach Ronnie Baker at the Detroit Skating Club from the age of seven. He became the U.S. national novice champion in the 1961–62 season. On the junior level, he was awarded the bronze medal at the 1963 U.S. Championships and won the title in 1964.
The following season, Wood advanced to the senior level and took bronze at the 1965 U.s. Championships in Lake Placid, New York. Assigned to his first major international events, he placed 5th at the North American Championships and 13th at the World Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Fourth at the 1966 U.S. Championships, he returned to the top three the following year. He finished 9th at the 1967 World Championships in Vienna, Austria.
At the 1968 U.S. Championships in Philadelphia, Wood defeated Gary Visconti and John Misha Petkevich to win the first of his three U.S. national titles. The trio were selected to represent the U.S. at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France. Still coached by Baker, Wood won the Olympic silver medal after placing second in the compulsory figures and third in the free skate. He stood on the podium with Austria's Wolfgang Schwarz (gold) and France's Patrick Péra (bronze). Wood attributed his success to becoming mature enough to conquer his competition nerves, and to training harder. While also a university student, he spent 7 and a half hours a day training, including at least four hours just on compulsory figures. Competing in Geneva, Switzerland at the 1968 World Championships, he finished second to the defending World champion Emmerich Danzer of Austria, who had been fourth at the Olympics.
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