What Did Tonya Do After Skating? Has Tonya Harding Skated Again?

After Tonya Harding was banned from skating, she began a career in boxing.

She went ahead to appear in several boxing bouts.

During the 2002 Fox Network Celebrity Boxing event she was able to win against Paula Jones.

Her boxing career was however short-lived, because she became asthmatic.

Has Tonya Harding Skated Again?

Tonya never skated again since 1994, when she received a ban from skating professionally.

She had also experienced a broken shoelace during the Olumpics in the same year, and finished 8th place.

Who Is Tonya Harding?

Tonya is a former figure skater and retired boxer, born on November 12, 1970, in Portland, Oregon.

She grew up with her mother, who helped build her interest in ice skating from a very tender age.

Tonya spent much of her early years training as a skater to the extent that she had to drop out of high school to spend more time practising.

Tonya went ahead to win many U.S. Figure Skating Championships between 1986 and 1989. She clinched the championship medal again in 1991 and 1994 U.S. champion.

Tonya has won at the Olympics on two occasions and has won the Skate America Championship twice.

She is the first American woman and the second woman in history to land a triple Axel in one competition.