biography
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1957– )
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| biography:
| Ice skater, born in Bristol, SW England, UK. He trained at the Bristol Ice Dance and Figure Skating Club (1968–80), and in 1980 became only the second British male to win an Olympic figure-skating gold medal. Other achievements include the European Championship gold (1980) and World Championship silver medals (1979, 1980), and he was World freeskating champion for three successive years (1978–80). He turned professional in 1980, and has been artistic director of the Ice Castle International Training Center in California since 1989. He later returned to England and in 1997 co-founded the company Adventure! on Ice, creating and producing programmes for television. He later began his own production company, Cousins Entertainment Ltd. In 2000 he announced his retirement from professional ice skating, and now runs his own production company. |
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