Tonya Harding Knee

The assailants struck her in the knee with a metal baton leaving her injured and unable to compete.

Tonya harding knee. 18 of 18. Figure Skating Association for her role in an assault on rival skater Nancy Kerrigan in 1994. Tonya Harding in 2017.

Kristi Yamaguchi Tonya Harding Nancy Kerrigan and Tonia Kwiatkowski on the podium at the 1991 US. After she was permanently banned from competing. But where Harding skated with pit-bull determination Kerrigan embodied the more willowy graceful ideal the Figure Skating Association preferred.

Shane Stant struck Kerrigans knee with a baton after practice one day before the championships were set to begin. As both women prepared to compete in the 1994 Winter Olympics rumors began circulating that Tonya was involved in the assault which caused an international media. Harding still denies to this day her involvement in the attack even though many people believe.

It was 23 years ago today that Nancy Kerrigan was whacked in the knee by an associate of rival skater Tonya Harding just weeks before the start of the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. Tonya Harding was a singles skater who is probably the most controversial figure skater in American history. Ahead of the big screen debut of I Tonya on Friday heres a look at where Harding now 47 and Kerrigan 48 are today.

Tonya Harding with guest at reception dinner for Tonya Harding at the Multnomah Athletic Club in 1994 shortly after the 1994 Winter Olympics. An assailant clubs Nancy Kerrigan on the right knee with a metal baton in Detroit. Taken in Portland Oregon.

According to ABC News Derek Smith and Shane Stant were both hired by Gillooly and Eckhardt to commit the crime. Hardings most prominent competitor Nancy Kerrigan was officially attacked by Shane Stant on January 6 1994 in the right knee. In January 1994 an assailant used a police baton to strike Kerrigan on her landing knee.