Benjamin Agosto

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Figure skating
Olympic medal record
Silver	2006 Turin	Ice dancing

**Ben Agosto**
Personal Info

Country:	United States
Residence:	Northville, Michigan
Height:	175 cm (5'10")
Partner:	Tanith Belbin
Coach:	Igor Shpilband Marina Zoueva
Skating Club:	Arctic FSC
ISU Personal Best Scores
Ice Dance Total:	221.26	2005 Worlds
Comp. Dance:	44.00	2005 Four CC
Original Dance:	67.54	2005 Worlds
Free Dance:	111.54	2005 Worlds

Most Recent Results:
Event	Points	Finish	Year
Four Continents Championships	196.98	2nd	2007
National Championships	202.88	1st	2007
Cup of Russia	186.33	1st	2006

Benjamin Agosto (born January 15, 1982 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American ice dancer. With ice dancing partner Tanith Belbin, Agosto is the 2006 Olympic silver medalist, three time Four Continents Champion (2004-2006), and four time US National Champion (2004-2007).

1 Biography
2 Competitive highlights
3 External links
4 Navigation

[edit] Biography

Ben Agosto was born to a Puerto Rican father and Jewish mother and raised in Northbrook, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago) and started skating at age six. In 1999, he was partnered with Tanith Belbin and the team immediately saw results on the junior level. They won the bronze medal at the World Junior Figure Skating Championships their first year together. Belbin and Agosto qualified for the 2002 Winter Olympics with a second place finish at the United States Figure Skating Championships, but were ineligible to compete there because Belbin was still a Canadian citizen. Instead, Belbin and Agosto went to the 2002 World Junior Figure Skating Championships and won. In 2004, Belbin and Agosto won U.S. Championship and have repeated twice. At Nationals in 2005, the last year of the 6.0 system, Belbin & Agosto won straight sixes for presentation in their free dance. Of the 30 6.0s given out in ice dance at US Nationals, Belbin & Agosto have 14 of them. Their 6.0 count is second only to Michelle Kwan's career 38 at nationals. Though they earned silver medals for the United States at the 2005 World Figure Skating Championships, Belbin and Agosto were originally ineligible to compete at the 2006 Winter Olympics as Belbin was not yet an American citizen.

However, by a special act of Congress passed on December 28, 2005, which President Bush signed on New Year's Eve, 2005, Belbin became a naturalized citizen of the USA, making her able to compete for the United States at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Belbin and Agosto went on to win the Olympic silver medal on ice dance on February 20, 2006.

Agosto attended Glenbrook North High School for two years before moving to Michigan where he graduated with honors from Groves High School in June 2000. Agosto played in a high school jazz band and hopes to become a blues player someday. He is also an ice skating coach.

Benjamin Agosto trains in Canton, Michigan. He previously competed with Katie Hill at the novice and junior levels.

[edit] Competitive highlights

(with Belbin)

Event	1999-2000	2000-2001	2001-2002	2002-2003	2003-2004	2004-2005	2005-2006	2006-2007
Winter Olympic Games							2nd
World Championships		17th	13th	7th	5th	2nd	3rd	3rd
Four Continents			2nd	2nd	1st	1st	1st	2nd
U.S. Championships	1st J.	2nd	2nd	2nd	1st	1st	1st	1st
Grand Prix Final					3rd	2nd		WD
Skate America			5th	3rd	1st	1st	1st
Cup of China						1st		2nd
Trophee Lalique			6th	3rd	4th
Cup of Russia					2nd			1st
Nebelhorn Trophy							1st
Goodwill Games			5th
World Juniors	3rd	2nd	1st
Junior Grand Prix Final	4th	1st
JGP Mexico		1st
JGP Germany		1st
JGP Canada	1st
JGP Japan	2nd