Barbara Berezowski

Barbara Berezowski
Full name	Barbara Berezowski-Ivan
nation	Canada
birthday	5th September 1954
place of birth	Toronto , Ontario
Career
discipline	Ice dance
Partner	David Porter
status	resigned

Barbara Berezowski-Ivan (born September 5, 1954 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a former Canadian figure skater .

Berezowski first got national attention when she won the gold medal with her partner David Porter at the national junior ice dance championships in 1971 . The following year she took part for the first time in the national championships for senior citizens and won silver in ice dancing. At the World Figure Skating Championships in 1973 in Bratislava , Czechoslovakia , she was 15. The same results at national and world championships she achieved in 1974. In 1975 and 1976 Berezowski was Canadian ice dancing champion and was able to improve to ninth and seventh places at the world championships. At the 1976 Winter Olympic Games in the Austrian Innsbruck Berezovsky and her partner Porter could reach the tenth.

After the Olympic Winter Games, Berezowski and Porter switched to the pros and in the following years went on tour with The Ice Show by Toller Cranston and Ice Follies .

She worked as a motivational coach until the mid-1970s and was a founding member and chair of the Sports Hall of Fame in Etobicoke , Toronto , from 1994 to 2008 . In 1999 she was accepted into this as an athlete.

Berezowski was married to baseball player John Ivan .

Web links

• Barbara Berezowski in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )