Gary Charles Visconti (born May 10, 1945 in
Detroit, Michigan
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)
is an American former
figure skater
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. He won the gold medal at the
U.S. Figure Skating Championships twice and captured the bronze medal at the
World Figure Skating Championships
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two times. He currently works as a coach.
Visconti is also a painter and has work on exhibit with
the
Art of the Olympians
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(AOTO)
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American male single skaters
Figure skaters at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Olympic figure skaters for the United States
American figure skating coaches
Living people
1945 births
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
Figure skaters from Detroit
American people of Italian descent
American painters
20th-century American sportsmen