• Sarah Hughes is 26 years old
  • Born: 2 May 1985
  • Birthplace: Great Neck, New York
  • Best known as:

    2002 Olympic figure skating gold medalist

4 good links

  1. Unofficial Sarah Hughes Website

    Great, enthusiastic fan site

  2. Hughes Wins Gold in 2002

    Outdated but also enthusiastic fan site

  3. Sarah Hughes

    Her bio and career info from U.S. Figure Skating

  4. Just Another Yalie

    2004 USA Today report on her post-Olympic life

Sarah Hughes Biography

Sarah Hughes surprised the world by winning the gold medal in women's figure skating at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City. She was 16 years old and previously had never won a U.S or world senior championship. In fourth place after the short program, Hughes came back with a near-flawless long program to pass reigning world champion Michelle Kwan, Russian Irina Slutskaya and fellow teen Sasha Cohen. Hughes left competitive skating and entered Yale University in 2003.

Extra credit:

Hughes's win was reminiscent of the 1998 Nagano Olympics, when the heavy favorite Kwan was beaten by newcomer Tara Lipinski... Hughes's younger sister, Emily, skated for the U.S. in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy.

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