Robin Cousins
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Robin Cousins (born August 17, 1957 in Bristol) is a British figure skater who won a gold medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics.
Cousins is an Olympic and European gold medalist, but he never won a World title, finishing second in 1979 and 1980. Bristol-born Robin Cousins won his first national title aged 12 as a novice, he was junior champion at 14 and made his international debut that same year.
He represented Great Britain as an amateur skater for eight years, winning the National Senior Championships for four consecutive years.
He won the freeskating portion of the World Championships three times, 1978-1980, and sealed his amateur ice skating career by winning European Championship gold and taking the Olympic title at Lake Placid in 1980.
A highly successful career as a professional skater followed. He starred in shows such as Holiday on Ice and Ice Capades, and was a regular at the World Professional Figure Skating Championships.
In 1983 he formed his own ice company, and toured the world with Electric Ice and Ice Majesty.
[edit] Later life
Cousins has made the successful transfer from sport to stage, playing the Prince in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, Munkustrap in Cats, and Frank N Furter in The Rocky Horror Show in the West End.
Cousins also starred in, produced, directed, and/or choreographed many international TV ice spectaculars such as The Nutcracker on Ice, Sleeping Beauty on Ice, The Wizard of Oz on Ice, Toy Story on Ice, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express on Ice, Holiday on Ice, and the movie The Cutting Edge.
He has also made various pantomime performances, most recently playing the Prince in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the Grand Opera House, Belfast.
Over several years, Cousins has been a regular guest presenter and commentator for BBC TV, for the European and World Figure Skating Championships and the Winter Olympics.
He appeared as a judge on the show Dancing on Ice in January - March 2006 and again in 2007.
[edit] References
- Martha Lowder Kimball, Robin Cousins. ISBN 0-9662502-0-6.
- Robin Cousins official site
- Cousins Entertainment
- Example of Robin Cousins skating
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| Preceded by Sebastian Coe |
BBC Sports Personality of the Year 1980 |
Succeeded by Ian Botham |
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1908: Ulrich Salchow | 1920: Gillis Grafström | 1924: Gillis Grafström | 1928: Gillis Grafström | 1932: Karl Schäfer | 1936: Karl Schäfer | 1948: Dick Button | 1952: Dick Button | 1956: Hayes Alan Jenkins | 1960: David Jenkins | 1964: Manfred Schnelldorfer | 1968: Wolfgang Schwarz | 1972: Ondrej Nepela | 1976: John Curry | 1980: Robin Cousins | 1984: Scott Hamilton | 1988: Brian Boitano | 1992: Viktor Petrenko | 1994: Alexei Urmanov | 1998: Ilia Kulik | 2002: Alexei Yagudin | 2006: Evgeni Plushenko |
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1891: Oskar Uhlig | 1892-1894: Eduard Engelmann jr. | 1895: Tibor von Foldvary | 1898-1900: Ulrich Salchow | 1901: Gustav Hügel | 1904: Ulrich Salchow | 1905: Max Bohatsch | 1906-1907: Ulrich Salchow | 1908: Ernst Herz | 1909-1910: Ulrich Salchow | 1911: Per Thorén | 1912: Gosta Sandahl | 1913: Ulrich Salchow | 1914: Fritz Kachler | 1922-1923: Willy Böckl | 1924: Fritz Kachler | 1925-1928: Willy Böckl | 1929-1936: Karl Schäfer | 1937-1938: Felix Kaspar | 1939: Graham Sharp | 1947: Hans Gerschwiler | 1948: Richard Button | 1949: Edi Rada | 1950: Ede Király | 1951-1952: Helmut Seibt | 1953-1954: Carlo Fassi | 1955-1957: Alain Giletti | 1958-1959: Karol Divin | 1960-1961: Alain Giletti | 1962-1964: Alain Calmat | 1965-1968: Emmerich Danzer | 1969-1973: Ondrej Nepela | 1974: Jan Hoffmann | 1975: Vladimir Kovalev | 1976: John Curry | 1977-1979: Jan Hoffmann | 1980: Robin Cousins | 1981: Igor Bobrin | 1982-1983: Norbert Schramm | 1984: Alexander Fadeev | 1985-1986: Jozef Sabovčík | 1987-1989: Alexander Fadeev | 1990-1991: Viktor Petrenko | 1992: Petr Barna | 1993: Dmitri Dmitrenko | 1994: Viktor Petrenko | 1995: Ilia Kulik | 1996: Viacheslav Zagorodniuk | 1997: Alexei Urmanov | 1998-1999: Alexei Yagudin | 2000-2001: Evgeny Plushenko | 2002: Alexei Yagudin | 2003: Evgeny Plushenko | 2004: Brian Joubert | 2005-2006: Evgeny Plushenko | 2007: Brian Joubert |
| Persondata | |
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| NAME | Cousins, Robin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | British figure skater |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 17, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bristol |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
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