Kristi Yamaguchi

Kristi Yamaguchi: Biography in Details

Who is Kristi Yamaguchi?

Kristi Yamaguchi is a former American figure skater. She won an Olympic gold medal in the 1992 Albertville Olympics. Yamaguchi has also won two World Figure Skating Championships. She became the celebrity champion in the sixth season of Dancing with the Stars.

Kristi Yamaguchi: Birth Facts, Family, Childhood

Kristi Yamaguchi was born Kristine Tsuya Yamaguchi on 12 July 1971, in Hayward, California, USA. She is an American by nationality and she is of Japanese ethnicity.

She is the daughter of Jim Yamaguchi, a dentist, and Carole Doi, a medical secretary. Her paternal grandparents and maternal great-grandparents immigrated to the United States from Japan.

She has two siblings named Brett and Lori. She grew up in Fremont, California with her siblings.

In which school did Kristi Yamaguchi attend?

Kristi Yamaguchi was home-schooled for her first two years of high school, but attended Mission San Jose High School for her junior and senior years and graduated from there. She began skating and taking ballet lessons when she was a child.

Kristi Yamaguchi: Professional Life, Career

Kristi began her professional skating career when she was 15 years old. She won the junior title at the U.S. championships in 1986 with Rudy Galindo. Two years later, she won two titles at the 1988 World Junior Championships. She also won the 1987 World Junior Championship in singles.

In 1989, Yamaguchi and her partner Galindo won the senior pairs title at the U.S. Championships. They won the title again in 1990. In 1991, she moved to Edmonton, Alberta, to train with Coach Christy Ness. That year, she was placed second at the U.S. championships.  She won the 1992 Olympic champion.

She also won the World Championship two times, in 1991 and 1992. Same that year, she won the US Championship. In December 2005, she was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame.

In 2008, Kristi Yamaguchi participated in the sixth season of Dancing with the Stars and became the celebrity champion. She received the Inspiration Award at the 2008 Asian Excellence Awards. That same year, she earned the Sonja Henie Award from the Professional Skaters Association.

In 2010 she worked as a daily NBC Olympics skating broadcast analyst on NBC’s Universal Sports Network. During the 2010 Winter Olympics, she was also a special correspondent for the Today Show. She has her wear line called Tsu. ya by Kristi Yamaguchi.

Kristi Yamaguchi: Salary, Net Worth

Kristi Yamaguchi has a net worth of $8 million as of 2023, but his salary is not revealed yet.

Kristi Yamaguchi: Rumors, Controversy

Currently, there are no desperate rumors regarding her personal and professional life. It seems she is doing her best job without harming others and has been a straight person in her life, for which she has not been in any controversy yet.

What are the body stats of Kristi Yamaguchi?

Kristi Yamaguchi has a height of 5 feet 1 inch. Her body weighs 42kg. She has black hair and dark brown eyes. Besides these, her body figure measures the size of 22 inches by waist size and 34 inches by hip size. Additionally, her shoe size is 6.5 US and her bra size is 33A.

Social Media Profile

Kristi Yamaguchi is active on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Her Facebook account has 98k followers, her Instagram account has 73.6k followers and her Twitter account has 59.5k followers.

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