Christopher Dean

Christopher Colin Dean, OBE ( born July 27, 1958 in Nottingham, England) is a former British figure skater, who started ice dancing.

Career

Christopher Dean began figure skating when he was ten years old and had been given skates for Christmas. His parents were dancers. During his school years he was captain of his football team. In 1972 he moved on to ice dancing and started in the junior area first with Sandra Elson. At the age of 16 years, Dean left school and began working as the police in Nottingham. 1975 Jayne Torvill was his Eistanzpartnerin. Torvill and Dean were first coached by Janet Sawbridge. In 1978, she changed the coach and went to Betty Callaway. They could only train after Dean's work, which is only through great discipline was possible.

1978 Torvill and Dean made ​​their debut at the World and European Championships. In 1980, she contested in Lake Placid their first Olympics and finished it in fifth place. At World and European Championships, she missed the podium in fourth place still. At this time Dean had already given up his job and focused now completely on the sport. He acted himself as a choreographer for the team. In 1981, the triumph of Torvill and Dean. In Innsbruck they were European champions and world champions in Hartford. In 1982 she defended their European title in Lyon and its championship title in Copenhagen. In 1983, she did not receive because of a fall injury Torvills part in the European Championship, but won at the World Championships in Helsinki the gold medal. In 1984 she made ​​the total triumph perfect as they in Budapest European champion, Olympic champion in Sarajevo and in Ottawa for the fourth time in a row world champion were.

The 1984 freestyle by Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean to the music of Maurice Ravel's Boléro became world famous and was even a video clip in some charts. At the Olympic Winter Games in Sarajevo in 1984, they received nine times the then ideal score 6.0 for that reduction in the B- grade for the presentation - that was the highest possible rating and the only time that this has been achieved. Addition, they received three times the highest rating in the A- note. The Olympic performance by Torvill and Dean was one of the most popular events in the British sporting history; 24 million Britons watched the ice dance in front of television screens. Both were in the same year for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year, Sportsman of the Year in the UK, was elected. It was the first time that the honor was awarded to two persons in a year.

After the World Cup 1984 Torvill and Dean turned professional, but took 1994 as Katarina Witt, to make the offer of the ISU to reamateurisieren. They won gold at the European Championships in Copenhagen. Ten years after her Olympic victory, they took in 1994 in Lillehammer Olympic Winter Games back to part and won in a nail-biting decision for ice dancing bronze medal. From 1981 to 1983 Torvill and Dean have been elected three times in a row for Team of the Year in the UK. 1989 were included in the Figure Skating Hall of Fame. In addition, they were awarded by the ISU of Jacques Favart Award, the highest award of the International Skating Union. He was also awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1999.

2006 saw Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean in the British version of Dancing on Ice for the first time after almost ten years together again on the ice.

Personal

From 1991 to 1993 Christopher Dean was married to the ice skater Isabelle Duchesnay, who he met when he worked out choreography for her and her brother in the late 1980s. On October 15, 1994, he married in Minneapolis, the figure skating world champion from 1990 Jill Trenary. Together they have two sons. The marriage ended in divorce in 2010.

Results

Ice Dancing

( with Jayne Torvill )

Pictures of Christopher Dean

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