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Tonya Harding

トーニャ・ハーディング　/　とーにゃ・はーでぃんぐ

American autobiographer

November 12, 1970 (age 55)　・　Portland, Oregon, United States

Oregon
autobiographer
figure skater
boxer

My Take

Tonya Harding is one of those figures I refuse to reduce to a single headline, however hard the culture has tried. Before the 1994 scandal swallowed her story, she was the first American woman to land a triple axel in competition, an athletic feat that still deserves its own sentence. What stays with me is her refusal to disappear: boxing, a memoir, the reappraisal her biopic set in motion. Her life reads like a brutal experiment in what happens when raw talent grows up without protection or polish. I would rather remember the jump than the scandal, and I sense history is slowly coming around to that view.

Overview

Tonya Maxene Price (née Harding; born November 12, 1970) is an American former figure skater and boxer, and reality television personality. Born in Portland, Oregon, Harding was raised by her mother, who enrolled her in ice skating lessons when Tonya was three years old. Harding spent much of her early life training, eventually dropping out of high school to devote her time to the sport.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Tonya Harding
Name (Japanese): トーニャ・ハーディング
Reading: とーにゃ・はーでぃんぐ
Born: November 12, 1970 (age 55)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Scorpio / Dog
Origin: Portland, Oregon, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: 2 cm
Agency: Private
Occupation: autobiographer / figure skater / boxer

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: David Douglas High School
University: Private

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

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