Naomi Lang

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Naomi Lang (born December 18, 1978 in Arcata, California, U.S.) is an American ice dancer.

Lang is the first Native American female athlete to participate in the Olympic Winter Games. She is a member of the Karuk tribe by her father's heritage. Her mother is Leslie Dixon. Lang represents the American Academy Figure Skating Club.

Lang was a ballet dancer in Eureka. She started to dance with the age of 3 and continued with ballet dancing to the age of 15. Her interest in figure skating developed after seeing an "Ice Capades" performance at the age of 8. Lang began dance with John Lee, winning the 1995 U.S. Novice title and the 1996 U.S. Junior silver medal.

In 1996, she began skating with Peter Tchernyshev and found fast success. They first won the U.S. Championships in 1999, and won the title the next four years in a row. They also won two Four Continents Championships (2000, 2002) and placed as high as 8th at the World Championships (2000, 2003). They placed 11th at the 2002 Olympics. After the 2002 World Championships, they switched coaches from Alexander Zhulin to Nikolai Morozov.

The team continued to compete in the 2003 season, but was forced to withdraw at the U.S. Championships due to the re-injury of Lang's Achilles tendon. Soon afterwards they retired from competition. Lang lives with the Ukrainian ice acrobat Vladimir Besedin. The couple has a daughter, Lillia Ashlee Besedin, born in 2004.

Lang and Tchernyshev have continued to skate together and have appeared in several ice shows since 2005.

Lang got engaged to coaching partner Mark Fitzgerald at "Fashion on Ice"(in Trenton NJ) On December 1st. They live together with Naomi's soon to be 3 year old daughter Lillia in Trenton.

1 Results with Peter Tchernyshev
2 See also
3 External links
4 Navigation

[edit] Results with Peter Tchernyshev

[edit] Olympic Winter Games

2002 – 11th place

[edit] World Championships

1999 – 10th place
2000 – 8th place
2001 – 9th place
2002 – 9th place
2003 – 8th place

[edit] Four Continents Championships

1999 – 3rd place
2000 – 1st place
2001 – 2nd place
2002 – 1st place
2003 – 3rd place

[edit] U.S. Championships

1998 – 3rd place
1999 – 1st place
2000 – 1st place
2001 – 1st place
2002 – 1st place
2003 – 1st place
2004 – withdrawn due to Lang's injury (2nd place after compulsory dance)

[edit] See also

Figure Skating

[edit] External links

Care to Ice Dance? - Lang & Tchernyshev

[edit] Navigation

Four Continent Champions in Figure Skating – Ice dancing

United States national champions in figure skating – Ice Dancing

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Naomi Lang

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[edit] Results with Peter Tchernyshev

[edit] Olympic Winter Games

[edit] World Championships

[edit] Four Continents Championships

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