Barbara Underhill

Barbara Ann Underhill (* June 24, 1963 in Oshawa, Ontario ) is a former Canadian figure skater who started in pair skating.

Her partner was Paul Martini. With him it was 1978 Junior World Champion. From 1979 to 1983 she won the Canadian Championships. Your World Cup debut in 1979 and they had ended it in eleventh place. Your first medal win they succeeded in their fifth World Cup participation in 1983 in Helsinki. There she won the bronze medal behind Yelena Walowa and Oleg Vasiliev of the Soviet Union and Sabine Bäß and Tassilo Thierenbach from the GDR. Her biggest success celebrated Underhill and Martini A year later at the World Championships at home in Ottawa by winning the gold medal. It was the first world title for a Canadian couple for Maria and Otto Jelinek 1962. Thereupon they finished their amateur career.

Underhill and Martini run two Olympic Winter Games, but could not achieve a medal. 1980 in Lake Placid, they were ninth in Sarajevo in 1984 and they finished seventh.

In the pros Underhill and Martini won, among other 7x victory at the World Professional Championships, 2x victory at the U.S. Open and 2x the win at the Legends Championships. In total they won 21 years in their ongoing collaborative professional career 26 gold, 4 silver and 5 bronze medals.

In April 1998, they ended their joint career with a farewell show in which many famous figure skaters and runners were guests. Since then she has worked in the 1990s for the television networks TSN, CTV and CBC as a commentator.

On May 29, 1993 her then only eight months old daughter Stephanie was drowned in the hotel's swimming pool. Then she founded with her husband Rick Gaetz 1998, the Stephanie Gaetz Keep Safe Foundation - a foundation that is dedicated to the protection of children from childhood accidents.

Results

Pair of running

( with Paul Martini)

  • J = Junior
1983 World Figure Skating Championships 1984 World Figure Skating Championships World Junior Figure Skating Championships 1979 World Figure Skating Championships Tassilo Thierbach Maria Jelinek 1962 World Figure Skating Championships The Sports Network CTV Television Network Winter Olympic Games 1980 World Figure Skating Championships 1981 World Figure Skating Championships 1982 World Figure Skating Championships Canadian Figure Skating Championships Phyllis Johnson James H. Johnson Karl Mejstrik Ludwig Wrede Pierre Brunet (figure skater) Ernst Baier Micheline Lannoy Peter Kennedy (figure skater) Ria Baran Jennifer Nicks John Nicks Frances Dafoe Norris Bowden Sissy Schwarz Kurt Oppelt Barbara Wagner Oleg Protopopov Irina Rodnina Alexander Gennadiyevich Zaitsev Irina Vorobieva Isabelle Brasseur Lloyd Eisler Ingo Steuer David Pelletier Shen Xue Pang Qing Aliona Savchenko Robin Szolkowy Maxim Trankov Kristi Yamaguchi Julia Vlassov Sui Wenjing Han Cong Melville Rogers Suzanne Morrow Debbi Wilkes Guy Revell Sandra Bezic Katherina Matousek Cynthia Coull Mark Rowsom Cindy Landry Lyndon Johnston Bryce Davison Kirsten Moore-Towers Dylan Moscovitch Meagan Duhamel Eric Radford
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