Table of Biography
Tonya Harding is a very famous former figure skater, and retired boxer from the United States. As a figure skater, Tonya Harding has won many tournaments like the U.S Figure Skating Championships, and the Skate America competition. She is also known for her brief boxing spell and her appearance in different movies along with projects.
Early Life
Tonya Harding was born on November 12, 1970, in Portland, Oregon, United States of America. This makes her 51 years old as of now.
Her father’s name is Al Harding, and her mother is LaVona Fay Golden. There is not much information regarding the names and professions of his parents, and siblings.
He holds an American nationality and practices Christianity. Further, he belongs to the Caucasian ethnicity. According to astrology, he has as his zodiac sign.
Talking about her formal educational status, he completed his schooling at Milwaukie High School in his hometown. And, he also accomplished his higher studies at university.
Tonya Harding – Net Worth 2022
Tonya Harding is living a comfortable life with his family. Thanks to the fame and fortune he has earned from his work as of today. Moreover, his total net worth is about $150k as of 2022.
Professional Life
Tonya Harding has established herself as a figure skater, and boxer. She was very interested in sports from a very early age, mainly skating.
The prodigy started skating at the age of 3, and at the age of four, she began to train in figure skating. Diane Rawlinson was her trainer.
She first took part in the championship in the U.S Figure Skating Championship in 1986. More people started to recognize her when she also won the Skate American title.
However, her breakthrough and success came in 1991 when she won the U.S. Championship.
Caption: Tonya Harding during the performances (Source: Otakukart)
Tonya also became the first American woman, and second in history to master the triple axle jump. And she did this on three different occasions. While later she also became the first woman to land a triple axel with a double toe loop.
In the middle, she had a bad run in competition due to injury which also hampered her performance in the Winter Olympics.
However, she returned to winning ways after winning U.S. Figure Skating Championships.
The championship also became very famous for her win against Nancy Kerrigan by attacking her before the game.
Moreover, she also tried her hand at boxing. She made her debut in the year 2003. She did not play much of the professional game in her career.
Throughout her career, she had three losses and three wins. Furthermore, she has also been featured in movies and projects like; Breakaway Weakest Link, truth Presents World’s Dumbest, Dancing with the Stars, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, etc. She also has an autobiography named The Tonya Tapes.
Personal Life
Moving on to the romantic and private life of Tonya Harding, she is married. She has tied the knot with Joseph Price in 2010. They are leading a comfortable life with a child.
Apart from that, she was previously married twice. She first married Jeff Gillooly in 1990 and divorced three years later.
He married Michael Smith in 1995 to were separated only after a year. He has no affairs with any other person. While he is straight regarding gender choices. And, he does not have any kind of controversial events till today.
Caption: Tonya and Joseph Jones (Source: Heavy)
Body Measurements
Tonya stands at a height of 5 feet 1 inch and weighs around 62kg. Likewise, she has blue eyes and blonde hair. Other than that, her body measurement is not available.
Tonya Harding is also present on social media. He has a Facebook account under her name with around 20k followers.
Tonya Harding – Social Media
She also has an Instagram account under the name @therealtonyaharding with 48.3k followers. Moreover, her Twitter account @thetonyaharding has 3.7k followers.