Jane torvil biography
Jane torvil biography
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Torvill and Dean
This article is about the ice dancing couple. For the film about them, see Torvill & Dean (film).
English ice skating duo
Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean | |
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Torvill and Dean on the Dancing on Ice tour in Manchester, 2012 | |
Born | Nottingham |
Country | Great Britain |
Retired | 1984, 1994 (amateur), 1998 (professional) |
Torvill and Dean (Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean) are British ice dancers and former British, European, Olympic, and World champions.
At the Sarajevo1984 Winter Olympics the pair won gold and became the highest-scoring figure skaters of all time for a single programme, receiving twelve perfect 6.0s and six 5.9s which included artistic impression scores of 6.0 from every judge, after skating to Maurice Ravel's Boléro.[1][2] One of the most-watched television events ever in the United Kingdom, their 1984 Olympics performance was watched by a British television audience of more than 24 million pe