Elaine Zayak 1982 Worlds

Her long program from the 1982 world championships. She moved up from 7th after the short program to win the event.

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Sports

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• 1982
• world
• championships
• figure
• skating
• elaine
• zayak

[metsdudenj]

Sumners was always a thorn in Elaine's side, since she was more artistic, but she wasnt a good jumper, Chin was a very artistic skater, Hill, was at times unimpressive, but did have some nice moves

[northtexasdude]

who is Hill?

[grafgirl27]

Ivanova and Kondrashova were crap. Get a clue. Well Anna had some nice qualities but she had the competitive toughness of a newborn baby. Ivanova was just crap in every way, her skating was horrible in everyway.

[clarriona]

Sumners was arrogant. And she never had Elaines lion heart. After the Olympics in 1984 she just quit wheras Elaine kept on fighting and skated the programme of her life at the World Championship where she should have won the Gold!

[looneybun1]

@KathyKlamisme just a friendly correction, if they favored, it would be that rachael flatt looked like her since Elaine is older. LOL but i dont see a resemblance. I think Elaine had a whole different skating style, look on the ice and off the ice than rachael. Rachaels skating bores me (and i think she is a remarkable young woman otherwise!!) Elaines was exciting and beautiful! but thats only my opinion. :D

[metsdudenj]

@heninwarrior Sumners was NOT a consistent jumper. She landed every triple in the 83 worlds awkwardly. She was lucky the field was so weak there and Witt bombed the figures. Elaine didnt waste time setting up jumps and had lots of hard entrances ( spread eagle, Ina Bauer, double/triple combo). Elaine hit the triple loop during the entire 84 season. Her SP and LP were among the top three in the world that year and should have been placed as such. The judging panel in Sarajevo should be shot!

[metsdudenj]

@clarriona And helped the US keep 2 spots in the 1985 Worlds, and kept the US record of a medal in the Worlds intact which I think dated back to 1964

[KathyKlamisme]

she looks like rachel flatt! :O

[dolcevitausa]

KUDOS to Elaine who really did have the last laugh over the corruption of the judges,the ignorance of Peggy Flemming and all the nay sayers with her brilliant return in 1994. She did not win the battle in '94 but she won the war and silenced her detractors. Not always consistent but always gave it her all...

[rickram1961]

Absolutely wonderful

[greekluv85]

WOW!

[heninwarrior]

@metsdudenj Sumners could regularly do triple salchows, triple toes, and double axels, some out of difficult entrances. For the time she was a good jumper. The only jump Elaine could do that many others couldnt was a triple loop and she was inconsistent at best with that.

[muscleboi4use]

I have to say she and Rachel Flatt look SO similar!!!