Barbara Berezowski

Barbara Berezovsky -Ivan ( born September 5, 1954 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a former Canadian figure skater.

National attention was given Berezovsky for the first time when she won the 1971 gold medal at the National Junior Championships in ice dancing with her ​​partner David Porter. The following year, she appeared for the first time took on the national Veterans Championships and won silver in ice dancing. The World Figure Skating Championships 1973 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, she was 15, the same results at national and world championships, it reached 1974. During the years 1975 and 1976 was Berezovsky Canadian Eistanzmeisterin and could be improved at the world championships on the courts nine and seven. At the Olympic Winter Games in 1976 in Innsbruck, Austria could Berezovsky and her partner Porter reach the tenth.

After the Olympic Winter Games Berezovsky and Porter switched to the professionals and went in the following years with The Ice Show of Toller Cranston and Ice Follies touring.

Until the mid- 1970s, she worked as a motivational coach and from 1994 to 2008 Founding Member and Chairman of the Hall of Fame of the sport in Etobicoke, Toronto. She was admitted as an athlete in just this 1999.

Berezovsky was married to baseball player John Ivan.