Jill Marilynn Watson (born March 29, 1963 in

Bloomington, Indiana Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County, Indiana, Monroe County in the central region of the U.S. state of Indiana. It is the List of municipalities in Indiana, seventh-largest city in Indiana and the fourth-largest outside ...

) is an American retired

pair skater Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a ...

and coach. With her partner

Peter Oppegard Peter Allen Oppegard (born August 23, 1959 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American retired pair skater and coach. With his partner Jill Watson, he is the 1988 Olympic bronze medalist and a three-time U.S. national champion. In May 2022, Oppeg ...

, she is the 1988 Olympic bronze medalist and a three-time U.S. national champion. Watson was initially paired with

Burt Lancon Burt Jude Lancon (born November 13, 1960 in Morgan City, Louisiana) was an American pair skater. Competing with partner Maria DiDomenico, he won the silver medal at the 1982 United States Figure Skating Championships. The following year, he teame ...

, with whom she won two national bronze medals in 1983 and 1984. She began competing with Oppegard in 1985. In their career, Watson and Oppegard won three national titles, a

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bronze medal, an Olympic bronze medal, and various other medals. During Watson and Oppegard's free skate at the 1988 Olympics, a photographer dropped his camera bag onto the ice and an usher walked onto the ice to pick it up while the pair was performing an overhead lift on the other side of the rink. She is now a coach at AZ Ice in the United States

She coached

Rena Inoue is a Japanese-born American retired pair skater. With partner John Baldwin, she is the 2004 and 2006 U.S. National Champion. Inoue previously competed for Japan as both a single skater and pair skater. Inoue and Baldwin are the first skaters t ...

/ John Baldwin for five seasons. Jill Watson and Peter Oppegard were inducted into the

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in 2004.

Results

Pairs with Peter Oppegard

Pairs with Burt Lancon

References

External links

Watson and Lancon competition results

Watson and Oppegard competition results
{{DEFAULTSORT:Watson, Jill 1963 births Living people American female pair skaters American figure skating coaches Figure skaters at the 1988 Winter Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in figure skating Olympic medalists in figure skating World Figure Skating Championships medalists Sportspeople from Bloomington, Indiana Female sports coaches Medalists at the 1988 Winter Olympics 21st-century American women