Jayne Torvill

Jayne Torvill, married. Christensen, OBE ( born October 7, 1957 in Nottingham, England) is a British figure skater who started in ice dancing.

Youth

Jayne Torvill is the daughter of Betty and George Torvill, a news correspondent. She started at the age of eight years with the skating.

Career

Early in her figure skating career Jayne Torvill initially focused on the couple running and, together with Michael Hutchenson British pair of running champion in 1972. The couple took in the same year also participated in the European Championships, finishing in 18th place.

1975 Christopher Dean was her Eistanzpartner. Torvill and Dean were first coached by Janet Sawbridge. In 1978, she changed the coach and went to Betty Callaway.

1978 Torvill and Dean made ​​their debut at the World Figure Skating Championships 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 had Torvill, who was employed by the insurance company Norwich Union in Nottingham and Dean, who worked for the police in Nottingham, given up their profession 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. 1983 they did not receive due to 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 1984, for the first time together for BBC Sports Personality of the Year, Sportsman of the Year in the United Kingdom, elected in the history of this ceremony.

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. She 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

Since the September 21, 1990 Torvill is married to the American sound engineer Phil Christensen. With him she has two children. The family lives in East Sussex, England.

Results

Ice Dancing

( with Christopher Dean )

Winter Olympic Games 1981 World Figure Skating Championships 1982 World Figure Skating Championships 1983 World Figure Skating Championships 1984 World Figure Skating Championships 1981 European Figure Skating Championships 1982 European Figure Skating Championships 1984 European Figure Skating Championships 1994 European Figure Skating Championships 1972 European Figure Skating Championships 1978 World Figure Skating Championships 1978 European Figure Skating Championships 1980 World Figure Skating Championships 1980 European Figure Skating Championships List of Olympic medalists in figure skating World Figure Skating Hall of Fame 1979 World Figure Skating Championships 1979 European Figure Skating Championships 1985 European Figure Skating Championships Aleksandr Gorshkov (figure skater) Andrei Bukin Gwendal Peizerat Tessa Virtue Scott Moir Meryl Davis Charlie White (figure skater) Jean Westwood (figure skater) Pamela Weight June Markham Courtney Jones Doreen Denny Pavel Roman Diane Towler Bernard Ford Isabelle Duchesnay Paul Duchesnay Alexander Zhulin Shae-Lynn Bourne Victor Kraatz Isabelle Delobel Olivier Schoenfelder Oksana Domnina Maxim Shabalin Anna Cappellini Luca Lanotte Christiane Guhel Jean Paul Guhel Linda Shearman Angelika Buck Erich Buck Sergei Novitski Ekaterina Bobrova Dmitri Soloviev Integrated Authority File
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