Jayne Torvill
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| Olympic medal record | |||
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| Gold | 1984 Sarajevo | Ice dancing | |
| Bronze | 1994 Lillehammer | Ice dancing | |
Jayne Torvill, OBE (born October 7, 1957, Nottingham, United Kingdom) is a British figure skater who, with her skating partner Christopher Dean, won a gold medal in ice dancing at the 1984 Winter Olympics and a bronze medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics.
Torvill became hooked on ice skating at the age of 8 following an after-school trip to the local ice rink. In 1971 at age 14, Torvill became the British National Pairs Champion with her then-partner, Michael Hutchenson. After parting with Hutchenson, Torvill continued to skate on her own for a while before teaming up with Dean in 1975. After placing 5th in the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York, Dean gave up his job as a policeman and Torvill gave up hers as an insurance clerk to skate full-time together.
The Torvill and Dean win at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Games was one of the most popular achievements in the history of British sport, watched by a British television audience of twenty four million people. Torvill and Dean returned to competition and added a bronze medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics.
Torvill was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2000. She currently resides in Sussex, England. She married Phil Christensen in 1990. Christensen was an American engineer who had worked on Torvill and Dean's ice show tour. They have a four-year-old son, Kieran and a one-year-old daughter, Jessica.
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[edit] Results with Christopher Dean
[edit] Winter Olympic Games
[edit] World Championships
- 1978 – 11th place
- 1979 – 8th place
- 1980 – 4th place
- 1981 – 1st place
- 1982 – 1st place
- 1983 – 1st place
- 1984 – 1st place
[edit] European Championships
- 1978 – 9th place
- 1979 – 6th place
- 1980 – 4th place
- 1981 – 1st place
- 1982 – 1st place
- 1983 – did not participate
- 1984 – 1st place
- 1994 – 1st place
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- BBC story on Torvill and Dean's Olympic gold
- Care to Ice Dance? - Torvill & Dean
- olympic.org Athlete Profile - Torvill
| Preceded by Steve Cram |
BBC Sports Personality of the Year 1984 (joint with Christopher Dean) |
Succeeded by Barry McGuigan |
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1976: Lyudmila Pakhomova & Aleksandr Gorshkov | 1980: Natalia Linichuk & Gennadi Karponossov | 1984: Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean | 1988: Natalia Bestemianova & Andrei Bukin | 1992: Marina Klimova & Sergei Ponomarenko | 1994: Oksana Grishuk & Evgeny Platov | 1998: Oksana Grishuk & Evgeny Platov | 2002: Marina Anissina & Gwendal Peizerat | 2006: Tatiana Navka & Roman Kostomarov |
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1954-1955: Jean Westwood & Lawrence Demmy | 1956: Pamela Weight & Paul Thomas | 1957-1958: June Markham & Courtney Jones | 1959-1961: Doreen Denny & Courtney Jones | 1962: Christiane Guhel & Jean Paul Guhel | 1963: Linda Shearman & Michael Phillips | 1964-1965: Eva Romanová & Pavel Roman | 1966-1969: Diane Towler & Bernard Ford | 1970-1971: Lyudmila Pakhomova & Aleksandr Gorshkov | 1972: Angelika Buck & Erich Buck | 1973-1976: Lyudmila Pakhomova & Aleksandr Gorshkov | 1977-1978: Irina Moiseyeva & Andrei Minenkov | 1979-1980: Natalia Linichuk & Gennadi Karponossov | 1981-1982: Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean | 1983: Natalia Bestemianova & Andrei Bukin | 1984: Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean | 1985-1988: Natalia Bestemianova & Andrei Bukin | 1989-1992: Marina Klimova & Sergei Ponomarenko | 1993: Maya Usova & Alexander Zhulin | 1994: Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean | 1995: Susanna Rahkamo & Petri Kokko | 1996-1998: Oksana Grishuk & Evgeny Platov | 1999: Anjelika Krylova & Oleg Ovsyannikov | 2000: Marina Anissina & Gwendal Peizerat | 2001: Barbara Fusar-Poli & Maurizio Margaglio | 2002: Marina Anissina & Gwendal Peizerat | 2003: Irina Lobacheva & Ilia Averbukh | 2004-2006: Tatiana Navka & Roman Kostomarov | 2007: Isabelle Delobel & Olivier Schoenfelder |
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