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Touring with Stars on Ice for over a decade, the effervescent Yamaguchi continues to win fans and attract product endorsements. Find Athletes U. Sullivan Jim Thorpe Kristi Yamaguchi. Olympic Hall of Fame. In , Yamaguchi became the celebrity champion in the sixth season of Dancing with the Stars.
Yamaguchi is Yonsei fourth-generation Nikkei. Her paternal grandparents and maternal great-grandparents immigrated to the United States from Japan, originating from Wakayama Prefecture and Saga Prefecture. Yamaguchi's grandparents were sent to an internment camp during World War II, where her mother was born. Kristi and her siblings, Brett and Lori, grew up in Fremont, California. Mission held an assembly honoring her, where she was presented with an honorary varsity jacket.
Yamaguchi began skating and taking ballet lessons, as a child, as physical therapy for her club feet. With Rudy Galindo she won the junior title at the U. Two years later, Yamaguchi won the singles and, with Galindo, the pairs titles at the World Junior Championships; Galindo had won the World Junior Championship in singles.
In Yamaguchi and Galindo won the senior pairs title at the U. They won the title again in As a pairs team, Yamaguchi and Galindo were unusual in that they were both accomplished singles skaters, which allowed them to consistently perform difficult elements like side by side Triple Flip jumps, which are still more difficult than side by side jumps performed by current top international pairs teams.
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