Born: October 22, 1963, Mountain View,
California
Coach: Linda Leaver
Skating Club: Peninsula Figure Skating Club
1978: World Junior Championships, Bronze Medalist
1982: First American to land a triple axel.
1982: U.S. National Championships - Pewter Medalist
1983: U.S. National Championships - Silver Medalist
1983: World Championships - 7th place
1984: U.S. National Championships - Silver Medalist
1984 Olympics, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia: 5th place
1984: World Championships - 6th place
1985-1988: U.S. National Champion
1985: World Championships, Bronze Medalist
1986: World Champion
1987: World Championships - Silver Medalist
1988 Olympics, Calgary, Canada: Gold Medalist
1988: World Champion
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Following amateur career, Boitano dominated professional competitions, winning five
consecutive World Professional Champion titles and four consecutive
Challenge of Champions titles.
Starred in Carmen on Ice with Katarina Witt
and Brian Orser, and won an Emmy Award.
Successfully lobbied the ISU to allow professional
skaters to reinstate, and returned to competitive national and ISU skating. Won the
silver medal at U.S. Nationals in 1994, and finished sixth at the 1994
Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway.
Inducted in the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame and
World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1996.
Became a popular cult figure due to a recurring
cameo caricature in the TV show South Park, where Brian Boitano is a
"superhero" and an inspiration to the main characters through
the song "What Would Brian Boitano Do?"
Appeared in cameo roles in Blades of Glory
and Ice Princess.
Currently hosts a show on Food Network, called What
Would Brian Boitano Make?
Member of the delegation representing the
United States at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games
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