Jill Watson

Personal information
Born	(1963-03-29)March 29, 1963 (age 62) Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.
Height	4 ft 11 in (150 cm)
Figure skating career
Country	United States
Retired	1988
Medal record Pairs'figure skating Representingthe United States Olympic Games 1988 Calgary Pairs World Championships 1987 Cincinnati Pairs

Jill Marilynn Watson (born March 29, 1963, inBloomington, Indiana)^[1] is an American retiredpair skater and coach. With her partnerPeter Oppegard, she is the1988 Olympic bronze medalist and a three-timeU.S. national champion.

Watson was initially paired withBurt Lancon, with whom she won two national bronze medals in 1983 and 1984. She began competing with Oppegard in 1985. In their career, Watson and Oppegard won three national titles, aworld bronze medal, an Olympic bronze medal, and various other medals. During Watson and Oppegard's free skate at the 1988 Olympics, a photographer dropped his camera bag onto the ice and an usher walked onto the ice to pick it up while the pair was performing an overhead lift on the other side of the rink.^[2]

She is now a coach at AZ Ice in the United States.[1]Archived 2006-05-14 at theWayback Machine She coachedRena Inoue/John Baldwin for five seasons.^[3]

Jill Watson and Peter Oppegard were inducted into theU.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2004.^[4]

• Watson and Lancon competition resultsArchived 2005-12-26 at theWayback Machine
• Watson and Oppegard competition resultsArchived 2005-12-21 at theWayback Machine

• 1963 births
• Living people
• American female pair skaters
• American figure skating coaches
• Figure skaters at the 1988 Winter Olympics
• Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in figure skating
• World Figure Skating Championships medalists
• Sportspeople from Bloomington, Indiana
• American female sports coaches
• Medalists at the 1988 Winter Olympics
• 20th-century American sportswomen

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