Famous Ice Dancers

On January 10, 2012, U.S. and World Ice Dance Champions, Meryl Davis and Charlie White took the time to chat with the media. This article summarizes that teleconference.

Shortly after the 2010 Olympics. during the time that Olympic Ice Dancing Silver Medalist, Tanith Belbin, was preparing for the "Stars on Ice" tour, she took the time to chat with About.com's Figure Skating Guide, Jo Ann Schneider Farris.

It has been said that Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto are the most outstanding ice dance team ever produced by the United States.

Judy Blumberg and Michael Seibert won the ice dance title at the U.S. National Figure Skating Championships five times. They were the 1983, 1984, and 1985 world ice dancing bronze medalists, and they placed 4th at the 1984 Winter Olympics.

Canadian ice dancers, Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz, were the first North Americans to win a World Championship in ice dancing.

In 2010, U.S. ice dancers Meryl Davis and Charlie White won a silver medal at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver.

Doreen Denny (with ice dancer partner, Courtney Jones) is a two-time world ice dancing champion. She also was the coach of 1976 Olympic Bronze Ice Dance Medalists Colleen O'Connor and Jim Millns, the first ice dancers from the USA to compete in ice dancing at the Olympic Winter Games.

Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin are the 2009 World Ice Dance Champions, the 2008 and 2010 European Ice Dance Champions, the 2007 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final ice dance champions, and the 2005, 2007, 2010 Russian ice dance champions.

Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon won the Canadian national ice dancing title in 2000, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007.

YouTube user "TeresaDawn" has put together a video montage dedicated to Canadian ice dance champions Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon.

US National junior ice dance champion and US senior ice dance bronze medalist Michelle Ford has coached ice skating for over 30 years. She is also the inventor of the Silent Coach figure skating training aid.

Melissa Gregory, and her husband and skating partner, Denis Petukhov, won a Silver Medal in the 2006 U.S. National Figure Skating Championships. That placement earned them a trip to the 2006 Olympics in Torino.

Melissa Gregory and Denis Petukhov's second-place finish at the 2006 US National Figure Skating Championships earned them a trip to the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino.

Kim Navarro and Brent Bommentre are two-time U.S. national ice dancing bronze medalists. They have been on the US World figure skating team and were Olympic team alternates.

Colleen O'Connor and Jim Millns won a silver medal at the 1975 World Figure Skating Championships. Before 2006, they were the only ice dancing team in U.S. history to have won a medal at the Olympic Games in figure skating.

Daniel Danny Ryan, was the 1953 U.S. National ice dance champion. He also won the bronze medal in ice dancing at the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952 and 1953. His ice dancing partner was Carol Ann Peters. Ryan was one of the U.S. figure skating coaches who died in the 1961 plane crash where the entire U.S. figure skating team...

Emily Samuelson and Evan Bates are the 2009 U.S. Ice Dance Silver medalists and 2008 World Junior Ice Dance Champions.

Maia and Alex Shibutani won the 2007 U.S. National Novice and the 2006 U.S. National Intermediate Ice Dance titles.

Jim Sladky and Judy Schwomeyer, an outstanding American ice dance team, demonstrated ice dancing at the Grenoble Olympics in 1968. That demonstration resulted in ice dancing becoming an Olympic event. Jim shares the story of his skating career in this article.

Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean won the Olympics in ice dancing in 1984. They are considered figure skating legends.

Figure skaters, Alexandra and Roman Zaretsky, are an Israeli sister-brother ice dance team. They have competed on the international level since 1999 and participated in the 2006 Winter Olympics.

In 1984, British ice dancers, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, won the Olympics. This photo gallery shows some of the highlights of their figure skating career.

On February 22, 2010, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir became Canada's first-ever Olympic Ice Dance Champions.

Figure skaters, Alexandra and Roman Zaretsky, are an Israeli sister-brother ice dance team. They have competed on the international level since 1999 and participated in the 2006 Winter Olympics.