Brian Orser

Brian Ernest Orser, OC ( born December 18, 1961 in Belleville, Ontario) is a former Canadian figure skater, who started in a single run. He is the world champion of 1987.

Career

Orser was born in Belleville, Ontario. His parents are JoAnne and Butch Orser, he has four other siblings. His coach was Doug Leigh, who later Elvis Stojko shaped figure skating world champion. In Leigh, he trained in the Mariposa School of Skating.

After he had become Canadian champion at the beginners and juniors, Orser won his first championship in 1980 with the seniors. It should be seven more to follow. In 1981 he made ​​his World Cup debut and was sixth. His first World Cup medal he won in 1983 with bronze behind Scott Hamilton and Norbert Schramm.

Orser was known as "Mr. Triple Axel " known. When he was in 1979 Canadian junior champion, he was the second figure skater, who was a triple axel, at a time when in the senior only a few that jump ever tried. Over the next few years he showed the triple axel and more constant than any other figure skaters. Orser was the first figure skater who successfully showed a triple axel at the Olympics. He succeeded in 1984 in Sarajevo. He won the silver medal behind Scott Hamilton. Even in the subsequent World Championships he won silver behind the American. Orsers difficulties in the compulsory figures cost him both times the gold medal.

Following the resignation of Scott Hamilton, the path was clear for Orser to become the dominant figure skater, but he had 1985 not a perfect world championship, losing Alexander Fadeev, who is now also the triple Axel had in his program. Orser responded and took two triple Axel in his program. At the World Cup in 1986 but handed razor thin again only to Vice World Championship, this time behind Brian Boitano. 1987 in Cincinnati but Orser finally became world champion and went down in history as the first figure skater, who stood at a World Cup two triple Axel in the freestyle and three in the tournament overall.

At the Olympic Games in Calgary in 1988 it came to the "Battle of the Brians " ( Battle of the Brians ) in Orsers home country. Orser was unbeaten in the Olympic season by then and had suffered his final defeat at the 1986 World Cup against Boitano. Orser was flag bearer for Canada at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. In the tournament he placed as third in the compulsory figures, first in the short program and second in the free skate and had to admit defeat so Boitano, as well as in the subsequent World Cup. Due to its many silver medals he had the reputation of " shekel ". The victory he missed by a botched Dreifachflip. Also Boitano was as choreographed as improved by Sandra Bezic. Since 1982 he had ever reached the podium.

1988 ended Brian Orser his amateur career and turned professional. He toured for many years with Stars on Ice. His last appearance there he had in 2007. Orser won an Emmy for his performance in Carmen on Ice.

In 1985 it became the highest Canadian award, membership in Canada Medal, awarded to 1988 he was promoted to an officer of this Order. He was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in 1989, 1995 into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 2009 and finally in the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame.

In November 1998, Brian Orser was sued by his former spouse to alimony. As a side effect Orsers homosexuality became public.

He now works successfully as a coach. From 2006 to August 2010, he coached the South Korean Olympic champion Kim Yu -na. In 2011, he became coach of Javier Fernández López, and brought him closer to the top. Since April 2012, he also looks after the Japanese Skating Star Yuzuru Hanyū and helped this to victory at the national championships in December 2013.

Results

  • J = Junior

Filmography

  • " Brian Orser skating free ", with Brian Boitano, Tracy Wilson / Robert McCall, Toller Cranston
  • Carmen on Ice, 1990 ( Germany ), together with Katarina Witt and Brian Boitano
Winter Olympic Games 1983 World Figure Skating Championships 1984 World Figure Skating Championships 1985 World Figure Skating Championships 1986 World Figure Skating Championships 1987 World Figure Skating Championships 1988 World Figure Skating Championships Single skating 1981 World Figure Skating Championships Axel jump Emmy Award 1982 World Figure Skating Championships World Junior Figure Skating Championships Canadian Figure Skating Championships Johanna Beisteiner Gilbert Fuchs Henning Grenander Ulrich Salchow Fritz Kachler Felix Kaspar Henry Graham Sharp Hans Gerschwiler Hayes Alan Jenkins Alain Giletti Donald McPherson (figure skater) Manfred Schnelldorfer Alain Calmat Emmerich Danzer Tim Wood (figure skater) Jan Hoffmann Sergey Nikolayevich Volkov Charles Tickner Kurt Browning Todd Eldredge Brian Joubert Jeffrey Buttle Evan Lysacek Daisuke Takahashi Patrick Chan Melville Rogers Osborne Colson Norris Bowden Charles Snelling (figure skater) Jay Humphry Ron Shaver Brian Pockar Emanuel Sandhu
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