She was awarded the gold medal ahead of two German skaters, Evelyn Großmann and Marina Kielmann. La seule à faire le salto arrière, "Surya Bonaly Lives in Las Vegas and That's Totally by Accident", "Surya Bonaly quitte la Ferme Célébrités en Afrique", "Player's Own Voice podcast: Surya Bonaly's quiet revolution", "La Championne De Patinage Artistique Surya Bonaly Déclare La Guerre À La Chasse Aux Phoques", "Cultural Attaché Surya Bonaly meets with Princess of Hanover", "ANGE GRAVELOT : « La France des Talents et des Couleurs a pour objectif de prévenir et de lutter contre les racismes", "International Vegetarian Union – Surya Bonaly", "Vegetarian diets, when properly planned, provide all the nutrients you need", "NICE : Remise des Insignes de Chevalier dans l'Ordre de la Légion d'Honneur à Surya Bonaly", European champions in figure skating – Ladies' singles, Skate Canada International champions in figure skating – Ladies' singles, Skate America champions in figure skating – Ladies' singles, NHK Trophy champions in figure skating – Ladies' singles, Bofrost Cup on Ice champions in figure skating – Ladies' singles, Internationaux de France champions in figure skating – Ladies' singles, Nebelhorn Trophy champions in figure skating – Ladies' singles, World Junior champions in figure skating – Ladies' singles, French champions in figure skating – Ladies' singles, French champions in figure skating – Pairs, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Surya_Bonaly&oldid=977027001, European Figure Skating Championships medalists, Figure skaters at the 1992 Winter Olympics, Figure skaters at the 1994 Winter Olympics, Figure skaters at the 1998 Winter Olympics, World Figure Skating Championships medalists, World Junior Figure Skating Championships medalists, Goodwill Games medalists in figure skating, Medalists at the Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships, Short description is different from Wikidata, Pages using infobox figure skater with unknown parameters, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 6 September 2020, at 14:04. Having landed it on one foot, Bonaly hoped to not get a deduction but she ended up having her points deducted. All those things together was just too much for some people to handle.

After the Olympics, Bonaly parted ways with Gailhaguet and joined André Brunet, who coached her for one month. [6], At the 1994 World Championships in Chiba, Japan – where the three Olympic medalists did not compete – Bonaly's final overall score was equal to home country favorite Yuka Sato, who would be awarded the gold medal after a 5–4 tiebreaker decision. [5] He later admitted fabricating the story in order to draw attention to his skater, adding that he only mentioned Reunion because he dreamed of going there on vacation. Elle n'intervient pas en tant que consultante à la télé (contrairement par exemple à Philippe Candeloro), n'entraîne pas de futurs talents français... Que fait-elle alors ? [38], Bonaly is also against bullfighting and requested to be received by the then-president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, who received her at the Élysée Palace on 26 September 2007 in order to address the abolition of bullfighting and the prohibiting entry in bullfighting arenas for children under 16. On l’appelle le « bonaly », comme Surya Bonaly, patineuse artistique française de renom, neuf fois championne nationale, cinq fois d’Europe et une sacrée habituée des compétitions internationale dans les années 90 – dont les Jeux olympiques d’hiver. Bonaly began the season with a pair of senior international medals – gold at the 1990 Grand Prix International de Paris and bronze at the 1990 Skate Electric. Due to the under rotation, the quad would be downgraded under the ISU Judging System. Bonaly placed fifth at the 1991 World Championships in Munich, Germany, where she came very close to the first ever ratified quad by a female skater, but had other errors.[13]. During the summer of 1988, she watched the Summer Olympics and noticed the sprinter Florence Griffith-Joyner dressed in a colorful running suit and decided to take inspiration from her for her skating costumes which would later become more original and colorful, something considered unusual at the time in figure skating. [8] When she returned to the ice rink, the French team trained by Didier Gailhaguet took every available space on the ice, preventing Surya from training.

[12] During an interview with the BBC, when asked if she ever felt that things were harder for her as one of the first black figure skaters, Bonaly clarified her comments stating: "It was a mix of so many things. Suzanne Bonaly believes that the critics are rooted in jealousy. During the summer of 1992, Bonaly signed a contract to join Tom Collins' troop, Champions on Ice, two months a year. During the season, Bonaly was coached by Suzanne Bonaly and Tatiana Tarasova in Marlborough, United States. In May 1996, Bonaly ruptured her achilles tendon while doing acrobatics.