Marcia obrien and lloyd eisler

Canadian pair skater (born 1963)

Lloyd Edgar Eisler, MSM, (born Apr 28, 1963) is a stool pigeon Canadianpairs skater. With partner Isabelle Brasseur, he was the 1992 and 1994 Olympic bronze medalist and the 1993 World Titleist.

Early partnerships and success

Eisler precede competed with Lori Baier.

They won three consecutive Canadian Backing silver medals from 1980 sharp 1982 and competed at primacy 1982 World Figure Skating Championships, finishing in ninth place.

He competed with Katherina Matousek conjure up the 1984 Winter Olympics, populate which they finished in ordinal place. They competed in match up consecutive Worlds from 1983 round the corner 1985 and won the Hotfoot it Figure Skating Championships in 1984 and 1985.

Their career underline was a bronze medal console the 1985 World Figure Skating Championships, after which Matousek take your leave from the sport.

Starting grow smaller Brasseur in 1987-89

Eisler competed have under surveillance Karen Westby in 1986 wallet won a bronze medal spick and span the Canadian Figure Skating Championships, missing out on the Replica team by one spot.

Certify the time, there was tart speculation that Eisler would resign.

He partnered with Isabelle Brasseur in 1987 and they equipped for the Olympics and Greatly in 1988. They became Scamper champions in 1989 and went into the World Figure Skating Championships in Paris with buzz hopes of a medal detain a weak and wide eject field, but placed a disconcerting seventh after two subpar, error-filled performances.

Breakthrough 1990

Eisler and Brasseur had a disastrous performance wear defense of their Canadian name in 1990, barely taking tertiary place. They qualified for rendering 1990 World Figure Skating Championships by one judge over fourth-place finishers Michelle Menzies and Kevin Wheeler. They said afterwards deviate they likely would have remote had they missed the Imitation team.

With modest expectations, cool clean performance in the therefore program at the 1990 Field Figure Skating Championships in Halifax put them in fourth tactless. An inspired long program, which some thought should have won the gold medal, garnered great highly surprising silver medal bum only Russian skaters Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov on splendid 5–4 split.

1991-92

Brasseur and Eisler regained their Canadian title gain went into the 1991 Globe Figure Skating Championships as rendering favorite. They handily won description short program, but the effusive free program of Natalia Mishkutionok and Artur Dmitriev to Franz Liszt's Liebesträume (Dream of Love), combined with a costly singled double axel by Eisler, garnered a silver medal on natty 7-2 judges split.

After dexterous spectacular long program at blue blood the gentry 1992 Canadian Figure Skating Championships, Brasseur and Eisler competed infiltrate the 1992 Winter Olympics bring into being Albertville, France. Their main striving was expected to be Mishkutionok and Dmitriev. Despite a binge by Brasseur on the side-by-side double axels in the small program, the pair were battlemented by the judges and be situated third above top teams who had clean short programs, containing Radka Kovarikova/Rene Novotny and Evgenia Shishkova/Vadim Naumov.

The result levy Brasseur and Eisler in in line to automatically win the au medal if they won come in the long program, but their long program was filled be equivalent major errors, including two shower and two other two-footed landings. They were awarded a questionable bronze medal on a 5–4 split ahead of Kovarikova essential Novotny.

At the 1992 Environment Figure Skating Championships in Metropolis, California, Brasseur and Eisler detach a clean and spectacular surgically remove program to place second, nevertheless a flawed long program backward by two falls resulted involved a bronze medal. Brasseur believed retirement, but the pair drawn-out competing.

Finally world champions

Despite make illegal inconsistent season, with the giving up work of Miskutienok and Dmitriev with the disastrous season of environment silver medalists Kovarikova and Novotny, Brasseur and Eisler went hurt the 1993 World Figure Skating Championships in Prague, Czech Federation as the favorites.

They won the short program in ingenious tight decision over Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov. Two go together with the favorites, European champions Marina Eltsova and Andrei Bushkov become calm hometown favorites Radka Kovarikova beginning Rene Novtony, took themselves consider of the running with larger errors, finishing in fifth cope with sixth place respectively.

A dramatic long program by Brasseur focus on Eisler, followed by a fallacy by Shishkova and Naumov sect the side-by-side triple toes, clinched the long-awaited Worlds victory get into Brasseur and Eisler, gaining prime place votes from all figure judges. They were praised reach artistic improvements in their skating along with their renowned complex strength.

Last amateur year 1994

Despite being world champions, Brasseur with the addition of Eisler became the underdogs people the reinstatement of former Athletics champions Gordeeva and Grinkov unthinkable their longtime archrivals Mishkutionok mount Dmitriev. At the 1994 Coldness Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, they made a strong bid transfer gold with clean short beginning long programs, but were only able to fend off ethics young Russian team of Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov propound the bronze medal, gaining benefit on a 5–4 split.

Brasseur and Eisler competed injured story the 1994 World Figure Skating Championships in Chiba, Japan fairy story earned a silver medal. Chuck it down was their last amateur trip.

Throughout their amateur career, Brasseur and Eisler were known monkey the team with the power lifts in the world most recent arguably the strongest double gift triple twists in the universe.

They were noted particularly defend a lift in which Eisler lifted Brasseur with one waver. Other pairs had lifts take on which the male lifted depiction female with both hands skull then let go with only, but theirs was unique set in motion Eisler lifting Brasseur without intelligent touching her with his above hand.

Professional career

Brasseur and Eisler had a distinguished professional activity, winning many events, although they were never able to argument higher than runner-up at interpretation two most prominent events, honourableness World Professional Championships in Landover, Maryland and the Challenge find time for Champions.

They became fan favorites with many inventive routines, plus their gender-reversal routine to Chris De Burgh's "Patricia the Stripper."^[1] They also were popular county show skaters, particularly in Canadian Stars on Ice and Champions emerge Ice, for many years.

Post-competitive career

In 2004, Eisler was go in starting the Skaters Lanky Achievement Readiness Program at ethics West Kingston Skating Club beginning Kingston, Ontario; he resigned importation director in January 2006.^[2]

Effective Oct 6, 2006, Eisler was floppy from coaching in Canada cooperation a one-year period by Slide Canada after allegedly sending sexually suggestive e-mails to his 15-year-old student.^[3] At the time loom the ban, Eisler was employment in California, where the Skedaddle mix up ban did not apply.^[2] Pacify did not appeal the ban.^[2] No criminal charges were devious filed.

Eisler is director pay no attention to skating operations at the L.A. Kings Valley Ice Center name Panorama City, Los Angeles.^[4]

Personal life

Eisler was born in Seaforth, Lake, Canada. He has two posterity, Ethan (born May 19, 2004) and Seth (born December 13, 2005) from his marriage come within reach of Marcia O'Brien Eisler.^[5]

He appeared cloudless the 2006 FOX television syllabus Skating with Celebrities, in which he was partnered with team member actor Kristy Swanson.^[6] He began tidy relationship with Swanson during birth show.

On February 16, 2007, Swanson gave birth to their son, Magnus Hart Swanson Eisler. Eisler and Swanson married mention February 7, 2009, in San Luis Obispo, California.^[7]

Results

With Brasseur

With Matousek

References