From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robin Cousins
Robin Cousins
Robin Cousins
Personal information
Skating career
From a sporting family (his father was a goalkeeper for
Country represented United Kingdom Millwall) of Bristol, England, Robin Cousins took to figure
Born 17 August 1957 (1957-08-17) skating very early after skating for the first time at
Westover Road Ice Rink in Bournemouth. He won his first
Height 6’ (183 cm)[1]
national title in 1969 at the age of twelve on the novice
Former coach Carlo Fassi level.[2] By age fourteen, he was Britain’s junior champi-
on, and he made his international debut that same year.
Skating club Queen’s Ice Dance Club
As a young skater, Cousins also did ice dancing at the
Retired 1980 same time as singles, his first coach being a dancer.[2] He
Medal record was later coached by Carlo Fassi.[3] Cousins can spin in
both directions.[2]
Competitor for United Kingdom
Cousins represented the United Kingdom as an ama-
Men’s Figure skating teur skater for eight years, winning the National Senior
Championships for four consecutive years. He had a left
Olympic Games
knee injury at the 1977 World Championships.[2] By 1980,
Gold 1980 Lake Placid Men’s singles he had undergone major surgery on both his left and
World Championships
right knees.[2]
Cousins won the free skating portion of the World
Silver 1980 Dortmund Men’s singles Championships three times, 1978 through 1980. He won
Silver 1979 Vienna Men’s singles silver medals at the World Championships in 1979 and
1980. He reached the pinnacle of his amateur ice skating
Bronze 1978 Ottawa Men’s singles career by winning the European Championships gold
European Championships medal, and also winning the Winter Olympic Games gold
medal in Lake Placid, New York, in 1980.
Gold 1980 Gothenburg Men’s singles
Cousins followed this with a highly successful career
Bronze 1979 Zagreb Men’s singles as a professional ice skater. He starred in such skating
shows as Holiday on Ice and Ice Capades,[2] and he was a
Bronze 1978 Strasbourg Men’s singles
regular in the World Professional Championships.
Bronze 1977 Helsinki Men’s singles In 1983, Cousins formed his own ice-skating perfor-
mance company, and it toured the world with the pro-
Olympic medal record
grams Electric Ice and Ice Majesty.
Figure skating
Later life
Gold 1980 Lake Placid Men’s singles
Theatre
Robert "Robin" Cousins (born 17 August 1957 in Bristol)
is a British retired competitive figure skater. He is the Cousins has made the successful transfer from sport to
1980 Olympic Champion, the 1980 European champion, a stage, playing the Prince in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s
three-time (1978, 1979 & 1980) World medalist and four- Cinderella, Munkustrap in Cats, and Frank N Furter in The
time (1977, 1978, 1979 & 1980) British national champion. Rocky Horror Show in the West End.
He later starred in ice shows and also produced his own. Cousins also starred in, produced, directed, and/or
In addition to skating, he has also appeared in theatre choreographed many international TV ice spectaculars
productions, including in the West End. He has also com- such as The Nutcracker: A Fantasy on Ice, Sleeping Beauty on
mentated on figure skating events for the BBC and from Ice, The Wizard of Oz on Ice, Toy Story on Ice, Andrew Lloyd
2006 to 2011 he has been a judge on ITV’s Dancing on Ice Webber’s Starlight Express on Ice, Holiday on Ice, and the
movie The Cutting Edge.
He has also made various pantomime performances,
playing Jack Frost in Santa Clause and the Return of Jack
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robin Cousins
Event 1972-73 1973-74 1974-75 1975-76 1976-77 1977-78 1978-79 1979-80
Winter Olympics 10th 1st
World Championships 10th 9th Withdrew 3rd 2nd 2nd
European Championships 15th 11th 11th 6th 3rd 3rd 3rd 1st
British Championships 3rd 2nd 2nd 2nd 1st 1st 1st 1st
Skate Canada International 2nd 1st
NHK Trophy 1st
Event/Season 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
World Professional Figure Skating Competitions 1st * 2nd * 1st 2nd 1st 4th
Challenge of Champions 1st 2nd
World Cup of Skating 1st
Event/Season 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997
World Professional Figure Skating Competitions 2nd 3rd 2nd
Challenge of Champions 3rd 4th 2nd 3rd
World Team Championship 3rd *
Legends Championship 2nd
Canadian Pro Championship 4th
Frost at the Mayflower Theatre, Southampton. Prior to Those marked with a * were team competitions
this he played the Prince in Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs at the Grand Opera House, Belfast.
References
Media work [1] Robin Cousins
Over several years, Cousins has been a regular guest pre- [2] ^ "Cousins Continues to Entertain". GoldenSkate.
senter and commentator for BBC Sport, for the European December 6, 2003. http://www.goldenskate.com/
and World Figure Skating Championships and the Winter articles/2003/120603.shtml. Retrieved April 12,
Olympics.[4] 2011.
He appeared as the head judge on the show Dancing on [3] (Russian) Tarasova, T. A. (1985). "Выдающиеся
Ice in each series from 2006 to 2011. тренеры". Chetyrye Vremeni Goda. Moscow: Sov.
Rossia. pp. 176.
[4] Robin Cousins BBC Sport
Honours • Martha Lowder Kimball (1998) Robin Cousins.
In 2005, Cousins was inducted into the World Figure Skat- Baltimore: Gateway Press ISBN 0-9662502-0-6
ing Hall of Fame.
External links
Charity work • Cousins Entertainment
Cousins is a significant patron of the Meningitis UK orga- • Robin Cousins skates to Julian Lloyd Webber’s music
nization. Television appearance, YouTube
Amateur competitive results Navigation
Persondata
Professional competitive re- Name Cousins, Robin
sults Alternative names
Short description British figure skater
1980-1989
1990-1997 Date of birth 17 August 1957
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Sporting positions
Preceded by BBC Sports Personality of the Year Succeeded by
Sebastian Coe 1980 Ian Botham
Place of birth Bristol Place of death
Date of death
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Categories:
• 1957 births
• BBC Sports Personality of the Year winners
• British male single skaters
• Figure skaters at the 1976 Winter Olympics
• Figure skaters at the 1980 Winter Olympics
• Living people
• Olympic figure skaters of Great Britain
• Olympic gold medalists for Great Britain
• Reality television judges
• Dancing on Ice participants
• Dancing on Ice
• People from Bristol
• Olympic medalists in figure skating
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