Figure Skating Choreographers - Christopher Dean, Nikolai Morozov, Marc Bogaerts, Alexei Mishin, Rory Flack, Mark Mitchell, Tatiana Tarasova, David Wi (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Christopher Dean, Nikolai Morozov, Marc Bogaerts, Alexei Mishin, Rory Flack, Mark Mitchell, Tatiana Tarasova, David Wilson, Elena Tchaikovskaia, Igor Shpilband, Lar Lubovitch, Bernard Ford, Rostislav Sinitsyn, Sandra Bezic, Pasquale Camerlengo, Muriel Boucher-Zazoui, Renee Roca, Marina Zueva, Lea Ann Miller, Olga Markova, Robert Paul, Catarina Lindgren, Igor Bobrin, Tom Dickson, Slav Baboshin, Natalia Karamysheva, Lori Nichol, Yaroslava Nechaeva, Yuri Chesnichenko, Sarah Kawahara, Dalilah Sappenfield, Irena Zemanova, Moira North, Romain Haguenauer. Excerpt: Christopher Colin Dean, OBE (born 27 July 1958 in Calverton, Nottinghamshire, England) is a famous British ice dancer who won a gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics with his skating partner Jayne Torvill. They also won a bronze medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics. Dean grew up in Calverton, Nottinghamshire. From 1974-80, he was a police constable with Nottinghamshire Police. Christopher Dean began to skate at the age of 10 after he received a pair of skates as a Christmas present. His parents were keen ballroom dancers. At school he was captain of the football team and he saw ice skating as a sport that was athletic and graceful. Dean's first ice partner was Sandra Elson. They began skating together when he was 14 and competed as ice dancers for a few years. However, despite becoming British Junior Dance champions, the team parted, as Dean and Elson did not get along well. Dean then agreed to try out Jayne Torvill, another skater at the Nottingham rink. The pair were first coached by Janet Sawbridge but in 1978 Betty Callaway became their coach. Dean left school at age 16 and joined the Nottingham Police Force in 1974. It was challenging for him to undergo police cadet training, as his schedule often clashed with his skating training sessions. Thus Torvill and...