U.S. Adult Skaters to Compete This Week in 2009 ISU International Adult Competition
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(5/28/09) - Twenty-two U.S. adult skaters will compete May 28-31 in the fifth ISU International Adult Competition in Oberstdorf, Germany. Hosted by the Deutsche Eislauf-Union at the Ice Dome, U.S. skaters will compete against approximately 200 skaters from at least 20 countries in ladies, men's, pairs and ice dancing.
Competition begins Thursday with bronze compulsory dance. The event, spearheaded in 2005 by Rhea Schwartz and Paula Smart, both former U.S. Figure Skating Adult Skating Committee Chairs, along with Switzerland's Wolfgang Stummer and France's Barbara Standke, is the only ISU-sanctioned competition for adults and features almost 50 categories. Competitors range in age from their 20s to their 70s. Last year American skaters brought back 30 medals, including 11 golds.
Among this year's entries are pairs team Judy Sargent and Craig Joeright, gold medalists in championship adult pairs and masters pairs at the 2009 U.S. Adult Figure Skating Championships; 2009 U.S. championship masters junior-senior ladies silver medalist Natalie Shaby, who will defend her title in masters elite ladies; and Elizabeth McGlauflin, the 2009 U.S. championship masters ladies intermediate-novice III gold medalist who will defend her masters ladies II title.
Other returning U.S. medalists include:
- Brenda Wittman - masters ladies I bronze medalist; masters and gold ladies I artistic silver medalist
- Judy Sargent - gold ladies II bronze medalist
- Century Leigh - gold ladies II pewter medalist
- Dorothy Ray - silver ladies IV silver medalist
- Kristin Norman and Glen Norman - adult pairs gold medalists
- Dawn Miller - silver and bronze ladies I artistic gold medalist
- Kristi Norman - silver and bronze ladies III artistic pewter medalist
- Dorothy Ray - silver and bronze ladies IV artistic pewter medalist
