Shae-Lynn Bourne

Shae-Lynn Bourne
nation	Canada
birthday	January 24, 1976
place of birth	Chatham, Ontario
size	163 cm
Weight	53 kg
Career
discipline	Ice dance
Partner	Victor Kraatz
society	Chatham FSC
Trainer	Nikolai Morosow, Sergej Ponomarenko, Marina Klimowa, Uschi Keszler, Natalja Dubowa, Tatjana Tarassowa, Erik Gillies, Josée Picard
status	resigned
End of career	2003
Medal table
World Cup medals 1 × 1 × 4 × VKM medals 3 × 0 × 0 ×
World figure skating championships bronze Edmonton 1996 Ice dance bronze Lausanne 1997 Ice dance bronze Minneapolis 1998 Ice dance bronze Helsinki 1999 Ice dance silver Nagano 2002 Ice dance gold Washington 2003 Ice dance Four continents championships gold Halifax 1999 Ice dance gold Salt Lake City 2001 Ice dance gold Beijing 2003 Ice dance

Shae-Lynn Bourne (born January 24, 1976 in Chatham , Ontario , Canada ) is a former Canadian figure skater who started in ice dancing .

Bourne began ice skating at the age of seven. Her brother Christopher is also a figure skater. She initially started in pair skating with Andrew Bertleff. She later switched to ice dancing and found a new partner in Victor Kraatz . The ice dancing couple had several coaches one after the other, Josée Picard , Eric Gillies , Tatjana Tarassowa , Natalja Dubowa , Uschi Keszler , Marina Klimowa and Sergei Ponomarenko as well as Nikolai Morosow . Victor Kraatz started for the CPA Boucherville. At the end of their amateur careers, Bourne and Kraatz were training in Newington , Connecticut .

In 1993 Bourne and Kraatz became Canadian ice dance champions for the first time and made their debut at world championships . In 1996 they won their first world championship medal with bronze. They achieved the same result in 1997 , 1998 and 1999 . In 1999 they won the first four continents championships in Halifax . They succeeded in doing this again in 2001 and 2003. In 2002 they became runner-up world champions and in 2003 they finally became world champions in Washington . It was the first ever world ice dance title for a Canadian and North American couple. Bourne and Kraatz took part in the Olympic Games three times , but without winning a medal. In 1994 they finished tenth and in 1998 and 2002 they finished fourth. After winning the World Cup, they ended their competitive career in 2003.

Bourne and Kraatz were a total of ten Canadian champions and won six times at the Grand Prix Skate Canada , which they are each record winner. They were twice victorious in the Grand Prix finals .

On August 12, 2005, Shae-Lynn Bourne married her former coach Nikolai Morozov in Chatham . The marriage was divorced two years later.

Bourne works as a choreographer . In this role she created programs for a. Jeremy Abbott , Kiira Korpi , Joannie Rochette , Daisuke Takahashi , Pang Qing and Tong Jian . She is currently working with Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje .

Results

Ice dance

(with Victor Kraatz )

Competition / year	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
winter Olympics		10.				4th				4th
World championships	14th	6th	4th	3.	3.	3.	3.		4th	2.	1.
Four continents championships							1.		1.		1.
Canadian Championships	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.		1.	1.	1.
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Grand Prix competition / season	92/93	93/94	94/95	95/96	96/97	97/98	98/99	99/00	00/01	01/02	02/03
Grand Prix Final					4th	1.	2.		5.	1.
Skate America									3.		1.
Skate Canada	6th	3.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.			1.
Eric Bompard Trophy										2.
Cup of Russia								2.
NHK Trophy				2.		2.	1.
Bofrost Cup on Ice		5.			2.		2.		3.

• Z = withdrawn

Web links

• Victor Kraatz / Shae-Lynn Bourne in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
• Shae-Lynn Bourne in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )