Todd Eldredge

Todd James Eldredge ( born February 28, 1971 in Chatham, Massachusetts) is an American former figure skater, who started in a single run. He is the world champion of 1996.

At the age of five years, Eldredge hockey skates bought, but switched within two weeks to figure skating ice skates because he wanted to jump and turn. At age ten, he went away from home to train with Richard Callaghan.

1988 Eldredge was Junior World Champion. His first of six titles at the U.S. Championships, he won 1990. 1991 he stood at a World Cup for the first time on the podium. He won the bronze medal behind Kurt Browning and Viktor Petrenko. His first Olympic Games in 1992, he finished in tenth place. In 1995 he became Vice World Champion behind Elvis Stojko. A year later, at the Edmonton World Championships he won his only World Cup title. In the next two years, he became vice - world champion, the first time again behind Elvis Stojko and the second time behind the emerging Alexei Yagudin. An Olympic medal he missed in Nagano in 1998 in fourth just barely. After two years without competition, he returned in 2001 and won bronze with his last world championship medal. In 2002, he played his third and final Olympics. He finished sixth. After he finished his long career and toured with Stars on Ice. In 2008 he was inducted into the National Hall of Fame.

He married Megan McCrea on September 3, 2005 in St. Petersburg, Florida, but considers himself as he announced in an interview on March 1, 2009, when divorced.

Results

After 1993

Prior to 1993,

  • N = Novice; J = Junior
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