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    Early life and education. Blair was born in Cornwall, New York to Charlie and Eleanor Blair. She was the youngest of six children. [1] . Her godmother is Canadian speed skater Cathy Priestner. [2] . The family moved to Champaign, Illinois when Bonnie was a toddler.

  3. Apr 23, 2024 · Blair came from a family of avid skaters and began entering races when she was four years old. She first gained acclaim by winning the world short-track title in 1986 at Chamonix, France. A year later she twice set a world record for the 500-metre event on the standard circuit. In 1989 she won her first world sprint championship.

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  4. May 18, 2018 · Blair was born on March 18, 1964, in Cornwall, New York, the youngest of six children. She was the daughter of Charlie and Eleanor Blair, who raised their large Catholic family in Champaign, Illinois. All of Blair's two sisters and three brothers speed skated competitively because of their father.

  5. Bonnie Kathleen Blair was born into a family of skaters on March 18, 1964, in Cornwall, N.Y., to Charles and Eleanor Blair. She began skating at the age of 2. While she was still a child, her family moved to Champaign, Ill., a center for speed-skating training, and Bonnie’s family found her top-flight coaching and competition.

  6. Daughter of Charlie and Eleanor Blair...Youngest of six children...Joined the U.S. National Speedskating Team after graduating from high school...Roughly 30 members of her family traveled to the Olympic Winter Games Calgary 1988 to watch her compete, becoming known as the “Blair Bunch” by the media...Was the first American woman to win five Olym...

  7. Family. Bonnie is married to 4x Olympian Dave Cruikshank and they have 2 kids. Grant is a collegiate hockey player at St. Cloud State University and Blair is a member of the DASH (Developing Athletes for Speedskating High-Performance) speedskating organization and student at Marquette University. Charity.

  8. Dec 6, 1987 · He and Rob Blair, the fourth child, were college fraternity brothers at Southern Illinois-Carbondale. As Bonnie was developing into a skater with international abilities, Sikma asked Rob how he...

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