<P> Tonya Maxene Price (née Harding; born November 12, 1970) is a retired American figure skater . </P> <P> A native of Portland, Oregon, Harding was raised primarily by her mother, who enrolled her in ice skating lessons beginning at age four . Harding would spend much of her early life training, eventually dropping out of high school to devote her time to the sport . After climbing the ranks in the U.S. Figure Skating Championships between 1986 and 1989, Harding won the 1989 Skate America competition . She was the 1991 and 1994 U.S. champion before being stripped of her 1994 title, and 1991 World silver medalist . In 1991, she earned distinction as being the first American woman to successfully land a triple Axel in competition, and the second woman to do so in history (behind Midori Ito). She is also a two - time Olympian and a two - time Skate America Champion . </P> <P> In January 1994, Harding became embroiled in controversy when her ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, orchestrated an attack on fellow US Olympian Nancy Kerrigan . After the 1994 Lillehammer Games had ended, Harding ultimately pleaded guilty to hindering the prosecution and was banned for life on June 30, 1994 from the U.S. Figure Skating Association . </P> <P> In the early 2000s, Harding competed as a professional boxer, and her life has been the subject of numerous films, documentaries, books, and academic studies . In 2014, two documentary television films about Harding's life and skating career (Nancy & Tonya and The Price of Gold) were aired within two months of each other--inspiring Steven Rogers to write the darkly comedic biographical film I, Tonya (2017), starring Margot Robbie as Harding . In 2018, she was a contestant on season 26 of Dancing with the Stars, finishing in third place . </P>

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