Adam Rippon

About Adam Rippon

A figure skater from the United States who won gold at the 2016 US Figure Skating Championships. In 2018, he won a bronze medal as part of the team event and became the first openly gay U.S. male athlete to win a medal at the Winter Olympics. In 2018, he became a judge on Dancing with the Stars: Juniors after winning Season 26 of Dancing with the Stars.

Adam Rippon is a former American figure skater. He won the 2010 Four Continents Championship and the 2016 US National Championship. Earlier in his career, he had won the 2008 and 2009 World Youth Championship, the 2007-08 Youth Grand Prix final, and the 2008 United States Teenagers National title. Rippon was selected. to represent the United States at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. At the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, Rippon won a bronze medal for the figure skating team. Later that year, he won Dancing with the Stars season 26 with professional dancer Jenna Johnson. Rippon announced his retirement from figure skating in November 2018. Rippon was named to Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2018 list

Born	November 11, 1989, Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States
Choreographer	Jeffrey Buttle, Benji Schwimmer
Country represented	United States
Coach	Rafael Arutyunyan, Vera Arutyunyan, Nadia Kanaeva
Residence	United States
Retired	November 19, 2018
Skating club	Skating Club of New York
Short program	89.04, 2017 Skate America
World standing	9 (2017–18), 6 (2016–17), 10 (2015–16), 17 (2014–15), 23 (2013–14), 18 (2012–13), 15 (2011–12), 15 (2010–11), 15 (2009–10), 11 (2008–09), 25 (2007–08)
Former training locations	Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Toronto, Ontario, Hackensack, New Jersey
Began skating	November 1999
Home town	Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, United States
Former coach	Jason Dungjen, Yuka Sato, Brian Orser, Ghisland Briand, Nikolai Morozov, Yelena Sergeeva
Free skate	182.28, 2016 Trophée de France
Combined total	267.53, 2016 Trophée de France
Former choreographer	Tom Dickson, Catarina Lindgren, Cindy Stuart, Michael Seibert, Shae-Lynn Bourne, Pasquale Camerlengo, David Wilson, Sébastien Britten, Nikolai Morozov
Training locations	Paramount, California, Artesia, California, Lakewood, California

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Trivia

His signature triple lutz has earned the nicknamed "Rippon Lutz." He was born with significant hearing loss, but surgery early in his life helped restore it.

Adam Rippon before fame

He began skating at the age of ten and began competing at the junior level in 2002.

Achievement of Adam Rippon

"Rippon Lutz" is the moniker for his hallmark triple lutz. He was born deaf, but surgery early in his childhood helped him regain his hearing.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

$4 Million

Adam Rippon family life

In 2015, he came out as gay after growing up with five younger siblings.

Associations of Adam Rippon

He won the 2016 US Figure Skating Championships by defeating Max Aaron.

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