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Kristi Yamaguchi

(1971-)

Who Is Kristi Yamaguchi?

Kristi Yamaguchi was born in Hayward, California, in 1971. She was born with club feet and began skating at 6 as therapy. She won her first U.S. championship as a pairs skater with Rudy Galindo in 1986.

After switching to singles skating, she won a gold medal in the 1992 Olympics. Since then she’s founded the Always Dream Foundation, published four books and won on Dancing with the Stars.

Early Life

Kristine Tsuya Yamaguchi, better known as Kristi Yamaguchi, was born on July 12, 1971, in Hayward, California, and raised in nearby Fremont. She was born with club feet, and had casts to correct the condition. She started skating at age 6 as physical therapy, after she saw her older sister, Lori, on the ice.

Skating Career

Although Lori quickly dropped out of the sport, Yamaguchi’s love of ice skating kept growing. She started competing in junior high, and in 1986 she won the junior pairs title at the U.S. championships with her partner, Rudy Galindo.

Two years later they took home the same honor at the World Junior Cha

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Kristi Yamaguchi

American figure skater (born 1971)

Kristine Tsuya Yamaguchi (born July 12, 1971) is an American former competitive figure skater, author and philanthropist. A former competitor in women's singles, Yamaguchi is the 1992 Olympic champion, a two-time World champion (1991 and 1992), and the 1992 U.S. champion. In 1992, she became the first Asian American to win a gold medal in a Winter Olympic competition.^[3] As a pairs skater with Rudy Galindo, she is the 1988 World Junior champion and a two-time national champion (1989 and 1990).

After Yamaguchi retired from competition in 1992, she performed in shows and participated in the professional competition circuit. She won the World Professional Figure Skating Championships four times in her career (1992, 1994, 1996 and 1997). In 2005, Yamaguchi was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame, and in 2008, she became the celebrity champion in the sixth season of Dancing with the Stars.

Yamaguchi is an author and has published five books. Dream Big, Little Pig!, for which she received the Gelett Burg

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TAKAKO YAMAGUCHI

Takako Yamaguchi, Found, Lost and Then Found Again, 2004

Takako Yamaguchi is an artist and painter who has been based in Los Angeles since 1978. Moving between the United States, Japan and France in the early years of her practice, Yamaguchi developed a uniquely syncretic approach to art making well before the term “globalism” became commonplace. She has long been sensitive to the tension between an ostensibly race-neutral kind of International Modernism on the one hand, and the aesthetics of local, national and ethnic identity, on the other. Rebuffing the formal reductivism of European abstraction and the austerity of American Protestantism as simplifications of difference, Yamaguchi turned instead to what she once dubbed, “the trash-heap of discarded ideals.” There she focused her attention on such disfavored subjects as decoration, fashion and beauty, sentimentality, empathy and pleasure; a collection of forms and values she holds all the more dear for the ease with which they were displaced by modernity.

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