| colspan=Ternary align=center| |- align=center |colspan=Tercet | Figure Skating |- align=center |bgcolor="gold"| Gold || 1988 || Mens Singles |}

Brian Anthony Boitano (natural October 22, 1963) is an American figure skater from Sunnyvale, California. When a champion in the amateur ranks, he became the sales person skater charted the 1988 season.

Boitano is probably better remembered for winning a very much celebrated Battle of the Brians across Canadian Brian Orser at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. Running into a final loose skating part of a competition (worth 50% of a overall number), Boitano got a cold-shoulder lead across Orser, however the lead was therefore minuscular that the winner of the loose skate was guaranteed to win the gold medallion. Boitano went in to skate the performance of his life & win a gold, landing Eighter hop-step-&-jump including deuce triple axels and a triple flip-triple toe loop combination. A performance is considered to become among a super right in a history of a sport, which is particularly telling given the pressure of the Olympic Games likewise when acute media scrutiny surrounding the Battle of the Brians. To this day, a Sports Illustrated handle featuring Brian Boitano landing his second triple axel of the program marks the exclusively period a male figure skater has appeared on the cover of the magazine.

Resulting his triumph withinside Calgary besides when an additional gold decoration at the World Championships in Budapest, Boitano turned professional. He went onto dominate competitions in a broker ranks, winning Decade straight office competitions, including V sequentially Globe Agent Championship titles & Quatern sequentially wins at the Challenge of Champions. When you took this 5-season stretch, Boitano did non produce one technical indicator error within his software online. Within June 1993, a International Skating Union (ISU) introduced a clause, called the "Boitano rule", which allowed agents to reinstate when 'amateur' or even 'eligible' skaters. This got been a effect of Boitano's active involvement in a period of the early 1990s, which saw professionals existence let in the Olympic Games in the sports of lawn tennis & basketball. Boitano reinstated to have a crack at a 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. Running into a Olympics as a gold palm favourite among a star-studded field, Boitano uncharacteristically missed his triple axel combination in the period of the short program—first ever, based on data from Scott Hamilton—& this proved highly costly, knocking Boitano totally away from laurel wreath contention. He fought back to finish Sixth.

Boitano's signature go for it, a Tano triple lutz or even just a Tano, is considered to exist as a virtually all hard go for it inside figure skating. Although triple axels & "quads" (quadruples) get on their face supplementary hard, a Tano takes a jumper to raise a single arm above his head when performing a go for it. A fact that 1 arm is raised dramatically reduces a jumper's angular momentum, making the Tano triple far additional hard than a normal triple.

Career
1986 Gold Medal, Globe Championships inside Geneva, Switzerland 1988 Gold Medal, Globe Championships around Budapest, Hungary 1988 Gold Medallion, Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada 1988-1992, 1994, First place, Globe Broker Championships within Landover, MD, the aggregate of Half a dozen times