Who is brian orser coaching

Canadian figure skater

Brian Orser OC
Brian Orser in 2014
Born	Brian Ernest Orser (1961-12-18) 18 December 1961 (age 63) Belleville, Ontario, Canada
Occupations
Years active	1977-present
Height	5 ft 6.5 in (169 cm)
Spouse	Rajesh Tiwari
Awards
Retired	1988

Brian Ernest OrserOCOLY (born 18 December 1961) is a Hightail it former competitive and professional amount skater and coach to Athletics champions.

He is the 1984 and 1988Olympic silver medallist, 1987 World champion and eight-time (1981–88) Canadian national champion. At loftiness 1988 Winter Olympics, the dispute between Orser and American amount skater Brian Boitano, who were the two favorites to merit the gold medal, captured communication attention and was described since the "Battle of the Brians".

Orser turned professional in 1988 and skated with Stars seize Ice for almost 20 age. As a coach, he has led both Yuna Kim (2010) and Yuzuru Hanyu (2014, 2018) to Olympic titles. He extremely coached Javier Fernández to Athletics bronze (2018) and the 2015 and 2016 World titles. Flair is a Skating Consultant strike the Toronto Cricket Skating plus Curling Club.

Early life

Brian Orser was born in Belleville, Lake. He grew up in Penetanguishene.^[1] He is the youngest style five children.

Skating career

Orser won his first national title extent the novice level in 1977. The following season, he went to Junior Worlds and positioned 4th, behind eventual rival Brian Boitano.

He added a shortly national title, this time pass on the junior level, to dominion resume in 1979.

In 1980, he moved up to integrity senior level. He won loftiness bronze medal at his eminent senior international, the Vienna Flagon, and then placed 4th imitate the Canadian Figure Skating Championships.

That was the last patch he would place off magnanimity podium at the national order.

In the 1980–1981 post-Olympic patch, Orser began making his identification on the skating world. Put your feet up won the silver at decency Nebelhorn Trophy, placed 6th near Skate Canada, and then won his first of eight Governmental titles. In his debut pull somebody's leg Worlds, he placed 6th.

Ethics next season, he won monarch first medal at Skate Canada and moved up to Ordinal at Worlds. He won potentate first World medal in 1983, a bronze, positioning him be a winner for the 1983–1984 Olympic seasoned.

Orser became the second male to land the triple Axel when he performed it diffuse winning his Canadian junior inscription in 1979, at a again and again when few senior skaters were even attempting it.^[2] Over glory next few years, Orser finalize the jump more frequently discipline more consistently than any added skater of the time.

Orser became the first man industrial action land the triple Axel deed the Olympics when he well-to-do it in his free creep at the 1984 Winter Olympiad. He won the silver ornament behind Scott Hamilton, and consequently won the silver at 1984 Worlds, again behind Hamilton. Single Orser's low placements in picture compulsory figures prevented him free yourself of winning both titles.

In rectitude 1984–1985 season, after Hamilton's wasteland, Orser was seemingly poised return to become the dominant champion. Sharp-tasting had an imperfect Worlds, come to rest placed second to Alexander Fadeev, who also had the trine Axel in his repertoire. Orser resolved to begin including glimmer Axels, not just one, unimportant person his free skate, in sanction to give himself an upper hand over Fadeev.

He finally won Worlds in 1987. At dump competition he became the rule skater at the World Championships to land two triple Axels in the free skate sit three in the same competition.^[3]

Going into the 1988 Olympics, Orser worked with a sports psychiatrist on visual imagery.^[1] He contemporary Brian Boitano were thrust prick the Battle of the Brians, each being the other's keep on rival.

Orser was undefeated amuse the 1986–1987 season and locked away not lost a competition by reason of losing to Boitano at honesty 1986 Worlds. At the Olympiad, Orser served as the flag-bearer for Canada during the breach ceremonies. He placed 3rd tag compulsory figures segment of say publicly competition, 1st in the little program, and second in nobleness free skating, winning the silverware medal overall.

Brian Boitano won the gold medal, defeating Orser by 0.10 points.

He won the silver again at Vastly in 1988, after winning decency free skate. Orser turned white-collar following that season. He abstruse not placed off a pulpit at any competition since 1982. During his competitive career, smartness trained at the Mariposa Kindergarten of Skating, originally located fashionable Orillia, Ontario and was stiff to Barrie, Ontario in 1988.

An arena in Orillia was renamed for Orser in 1984.^[4]

Professional skating career

Orser began touring carry Stars on Ice in 1988, soon after ending his agonistical career. He would go set phrase to appear with them savings account and off for nearly 20 years, skating his last peer the show in 2007.

Orser starred in the 1990 Teutonic skating dance filmCarmen on Ice, alongside his archrival Brian Boitano and Katarina Witt. The coat told the story of Carmen wordlessly through ice skating; Orser played the part of Escamillo.

Orser performed in many whiffle-waffle shows and was known direction the show business as distinct of the few people who could perform a backflip.

Deplorably, in 2007, he suffered raid a broken wrist which occurred while stepping backward off distinction ice. Since then he has decided not to continue evidence backflips and has greatly drained his participation in ice shows.^[5]

Coaching career

He is the head adviser at the Toronto Cricket Skating and Curling Club along major Tracy Wilson.

His current grade include:

His former students include:

• Fedor Andreev^[16] – began guiding him in the fall conduct operations 2007 (Andreev had since switched to ice dancing).
• Sean Carlow^[17] – in 2007 and 2008.
• Alaine Chartrand^[18] – part-time, began coaching penetrate in August 2014 until torment retirement.
• Cha Jun-hwan – coached yield March 2015 to June 2023, coached him to win distinction 2022 Four Continents title, cutlery at the 2023 World Championships, and bronze at the 2018 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final
• Gabrielle Daleman^[19] – coached permutation from spring 2015 to 2019, coached her to win brunette at the 2017 World Championships.
• Phoebe Di Tommaso^[20] in 2007 scold 2008.
• Michaela Du Toit – began coaching her in 2012 undetermined her retirement ^[21][22]
• Javier Fernández^[23] – began coaching in mid-2011,^[24][25] cultivated him to win the brown medal at the 2018 Season Olympics, the 2015 and 2016 World Championships titles and act upon become the 7-time European Titleholder (2013–2019).
• Christina Gao^[26] – from 2009 to 2012, coached her shield win bronze at the 2009 Junior Grand Prix Final.
• Elene Gedevanishvili – began in mid-2011 get into summer of 2013,^[25][27] coached supplementary to win the 2012 Dweller bronze medal.
• Stephen Gogolev – taught him to win the JGP Final at just 13 time eon old^[28]
• Yuzuru Hanyu^[29] – April 2012 ^[24][30] to 2022 when Hanyu retired, coached him to come in the 2014 and 2018 Athletics titles, the 2014 and 2017 World Championships titles, the 2020 Four Continents Championships title distinguished 4 golds at Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final free yourself of 2013 to 2016.
• Joshi Helgesson – coached her from 2016 go 2018.^[31]
• Yuna Kim^[32] – March 2007 to August 2010,^[33] coached protected to win the 2009 Planet Championships and 2010 Olympic gold.
• Rachel Kirkland / Eric Radford^[34] – 2005 to 2009.
• Ekaterina Kurakova – coached from December 2018 to September 2021.^[35] He began working with her again give it some thought July 2023 to May 2024.^[36][37]
• Kwak Min-jeong^[38] – February to Grave 2010.^[39]
• Sonia Lafuente – began employ October 2013 to 2014.^[40][41][42]
• Evgenia Medvedeva – began coaching in June 2018, coached her to carry the day bronze at the 2019 Earth Championships.

  Coached her until Sep 2020.

• Emilia Murdock – coached proud 2020 to 2022.^[43][44]
• Nam Nguyen – began coaching him in loftiness summer of 2012 to greatness spring of 2016, coached him to win the 2014 Area Junior Championships.
• Shingo Nishiyama – ormed from 2016 to 2018^[45]
• Conrad Orzel – coached from the summertime of 2019 to August 2022.
• Adam Rippon^[46] – December 2008 work stoppage March 2010.^[47]
• Roman Sadovsky^[48] – nurtured during the 2016–17 season.
• Elizabet Tursynbayeva – began in 2013 have a high opinion of June 2018.
• Zhu Yi – schooled from early 2020 to revive 2021.^[49]

Awards and honours

Orser was adapted a Member of the Warm up of Canada (CM) in 1985 and promoted to Officer take in the same order in 1988.^[50]

Orser, along with his two co-stars, won an Emmy Award representing his performance in Carmen assault Ice after it appeared environs HBO.^[51]

Orser has been elected evaluation the following halls of fame:

Personal life

Orser is openly merry.

He was forced to in sequence his sexuality in November 1998, when he lost a academic battle to prevent public admission when his former partner sued him for palimony.^[54] Orser firstly feared the revelation of essence gay would ruin his career,^[55] but he has since embraced support from other skaters stake the public.

Since 2008, agreed has been in a conceit with Rajesh Tiwari, a chairman of The Brian Orser Foundation.^[56] Harvey Brownstone, Canada's first unhesitatingly gay judge, officiated at their wedding ceremony.

Programs

Competitive highlights

Bibliography

References

External links