Paul Martini

Paul Lloyd Martini ( born November 2, 1960 in Weston, Ontario) is a former Canadian figure skater, who started pair skating.

His partner was Barbara Underhill. With her he was 1978 World Junior 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 Martini and Underhill a year later at the World Championships at home in Ottawa by winning the gold medal. It was the first championship title for a Canadian couple for Maria and Otto Jelinek 1962. Thereupon they finished their amateur career.

Martini and Underhill 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 Martini and Underhill 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. Overall, they won in their 21 years 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.

Results

Pair of running

( with Barbara Underhill )

  • 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 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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