Oksana Baiul: When she received a pair of ice skates for her fourth birthday, it was the beginning of a career for Olympic champion Oksana Baiul. Born in the Ukraine in 1977, Bauil showed talent as a young skater. She started competing by the time she was seven years old. She went on to win the World Figure Skating Championships in 1993, when she was just fifteen years old, and took home Olympic gold in the 1994 Winter Olympic Games at the age of sixteen.
Kristi Yamaguchi: Although she was born with club feet, Kristi Yamaguchi was inspired after seeing Olympic champion Dorothy Hamill on TV and took up figure skating as part of her physical therapy. Yamaguchi won the 1992 Olympic games, becoming the first American woman to take home the figure-skating gold since 1976. Six years later, she was inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame and the US Figure Skating Hall of Fame.
Tara Lipinski: Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1982, Tara Lipinski originally started skating as a roller skater when she was three years old. She switched to ice skating at the age of six and went on to become the youngest Olympic gold medalist in figure skating history at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan, in 1998. Lipinski was also the first female figure skater to land a triple loop-triple loop combination, which became her signature jump combination.
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