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Peggy Gale Fleming (born July 27, 1948 in San
Jose, California) is an United States|American
figure skater who won an Olympic Games|Olympic
gold medal in 1968.

In 1961, when Fleming was 11 years old, her coach
William Kipp was killed in the crash of Sabena
Flight 548 along with the rest of the United
States team while en route to the 1961 World
Figure Skating Championships. Fleming was
subsequently coached by Carlo Fassi.  She would be
forced to define her own style in figure skating,
a style that would lead to five U.S. titles, three
World titles and the Gold Medal in the 1968 Winter
Olympics|1968 Olympics in Grenoble, France.

Within six months, she would star in the first of
five television specials. She has skated for four
Presidents, and was a featured performer at the
1986 rededication of the Statue of Liberty. For
more than twenty years, she has been a commentator
on figure skating for American Broadcasting
Company|ABC Sports, as well as a spokesperson for
the National Osteoporosis Foundation.

In 1970, she married dermatologist Dr. Greg
Jenkins. They live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
They have two sons (born 1977 and 1988) and two
grandsons.

In 1998, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and
survived due to early detection and  successful
surgery.

==External links==
* http://www.peggyfleming.net/ PeggyFleming.net -
Official website

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