Ryan Bradley

Ryan Bradley ( born November 17, 1983 in Saint Joseph, Missouri ) is a former American figure skater, who started in a single run.

Bradley comes from a skating family, both his parents and his sister were figure skaters. Today his sister as a figure skating coach and his mother works as a point Judge of the U.S. federation. So Bradley began at the age of two years with the ice skating. He starts for the Broadmoor Skating Club in Colorado Springs. His coach is Tom Zakrajsek. In addition to his competitive career Bradley studied economics at the University of Colorado Springs and works as a volunteer at the Broadmoor Skating Club and as a coach in the Colorado Springs World Arena. Bradley is best known for its spectacular show runs where he among other things, shows a backflip.

From 1996 to 1998 Bradley stepped to the side of Tiffany Vise pair skating. He finished this in order to focus entirely on the individual run can. As a loner, he was U.S. champion at the 1999 Junior. In 2000 he reached the fifth place his best finish at the Junior World Championships. In 2004, he first participated at the Four Continents Championships and finished it in eleventh place. In 2007 he reached the podium at the U.S. Senior Championships for the first time. He won the silver medal behind Evan Lysacek and qualified for his first World Championship. There he reached the 15th place. Shortly before he had finished fourth at the Four Continents Championship. In the following three years, he missed the national podium in short supply, but, in 2010 to participate in his second World Cup, Olympic champion Evan Lysacek as the Johnny Weir and also gave up a start. But Bradley was not on the 18th square.

In January 2011, Ryan Bradley in Greensboro, North Carolina, surprising U.S. champion. In his third overall World Cup he reached in Moscow with the thirteenth place his best finish at the World Championships. Two weeks later, Bradley announced his retirement from competitive sport.

Results

• J = Junior