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John Luther Zimmerman IV (born November 26, 1973) is an American professional pair skater and coach. With skating partner Kyoko Ina, he is the 2002 World bronze medalist and a three-time U.S. national champion. They also competed at the 2002 Olympics. Zimmerman was suspended by the United States Center for SafeSport in March 2021 for a two-year period.

John Zimmerman
Zimmerman in 2018
Personal information
Full name	John Luther Zimmerman IV
Country represented	United States
Born	(1973-11-26) November 26, 1973 (age 48) Birmingham, Alabama
Residence	Hackensack, New Jersey
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Partner	Kyoko Ina
Former partner	Brie Teaboldt Stephanie Stiegler
Former coach	Tamara Moskvina Igor Moskvin Peter Burrows
Former choreographer	Alexander Zhulin Artur Dmitriev
Skating club	Birmingham FSC
Retired	2002
Medal record Representing  United States Figure skating: Pairs World Championships 2002 Nagano Pairs Four Continents Championships 2001 Salt Lake City Pairs 2000 Osaka Pairs

Personal life

Zimmerman was born in Birmingham, Alabama.[1] He has two older sisters. He married Italian-American skater Silvia Fontana on August 28, 2003.[2] They have two daughters – Sofia, born on April 2, 2012 at Northwest Medical Center in Coconut Creek, Florida,[3] and Eva, born on June 2, 2013.[4] Their son, Jack Zimmerman, was born in 2016.

Zimmerman has worked as a model, appearing in photo shoots for Barneys New York and various designers. He and Fontana also appeared on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy in 2004, and made appearances for Am/FAR, amongst other charities. In 2003, an access bridge at his alma mater, Homewood High School, was named after him.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Zimmerman started skating at age 3 at a mall. He briefly partnered with Brie Teaboldt for the 1994-95 season. Then he paired with Stephanie Stiegler from 1995 through 1998, and won the bronze medal at the 1997 U.S. Figure Skating Championships while being coached by Peter Oppegard. Their partnership ended in 1998 due to injuries.[5]

Zimmerman teamed up with Kyoko Ina in 1998.[6] Initially, they were coached by Peter Burrows and Mary Lynn Gelderman in Monsey, New York and they also commuted to Stamford, Connecticut to work with Tamara Moskvina.[5] They later trained under Moskvina and Igor Moskvin in Hackensack, New Jersey.[1]

Ina and Zimmerman won the bronze medal at the 2002 World Championships. In 2003, they turned professional and began skating on Stars on Ice.

Zimmerman competed in the January 2006 FOX television program "Skating with Celebrities", where he partnered with FOX broadcaster Jillian Barberie. They finished in second place.

Zimmerman was featured as Yahoo's special guest expert correspondent for figure skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.[7] He later competed in an ABC skating series "Thin Ice" (aired on March 19, 2010), paired with world champion Canadian ice dancer Shae-Lynn Bourne. They finished in second place, winning a total of $50,000. They skated to "Closer" by Ne-Yo and "Poker Face" by Lady Gaga.

Zimmerman worked as a coach at Panthers Ice Den in Coral Springs, Florida with Silvia Fontana.[8] They now coach at Florida Hospital Center Ice in Wesley Chapel, Florida.[9] He has coached Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier (from Autumn 2012 to February 2015 and since 2018 again)[8][10] and Vanessa James / Morgan Cipres (from June 2016).[11]

Suspension

In December 2019, Zimmerman, Fontana, and fellow coach Vinny Dispenza, were accused in a United States Center for SafeSport investigation of covering up alleged sexual abuse committed by Ciprès via intimidation tactics.[12] Zimmerman was suspended for two years and received one additional year of probation by SafeSport in March 2021 for abuse of process, emotional misconduct, and failure to report sexual abuse of a 13 year old he was coaching.[13] He was barred from any skating events run by U.S. Figure Skating or the Olympic committee, and prohibited from attending any facility run by those groups.[14][15]

Programs

(with Ina)

Season	Short program	Free skating
2001–02 [1]	Shine On You Crazy Diamond by Roger Waters, Pink Floyd	Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini by Sergei Rachmaninov
2000–01 [16]	Truman Show	Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini by Sergei Rachmaninov

Results

GP: Champions Series / Grand Prix

With Kyoko Ina

International[17]
Event	1998–99	99–2000	2000–01	2001–02
Olympics				5th
Worlds	9th	7th	7th	3rd
Four Continents		2nd	3rd
GP Final	5th			4th
GP Cup of Russia	3rd		4th
GP Lalique	2nd	4th	3rd	2nd
GP Skate America	5th	5th	4th	2nd
GP Skate Canada		2nd
GP Sparkassen				2nd
National[17]
U.S. Champ.	2nd	1st	1st	1st

With Stephanie Stiegler

International[18]
Event	1995–96	1996–97
World Championships		15th
GP Trophée Lalique		6th
GP Skate America		3rd
National
U.S. Championships	4th	3rd

With Brie Teaboldt

Event	1994–95
U.S. Championships	12th

References

External links

• Official Ina/Zimmerman site
• Official John Zimmerman site
• Kyoko Ina / John Zimmerman at the International Skating Union

На других языках

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[de] John Zimmerman

John Luther Zimmerman IV (* 26. November 1973 in Birmingham, Alabama) ist ein ehemaliger US-amerikanischer Eiskunstläufer, der im Paarlauf startete.

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- [en] John Zimmerman (figure skater)

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