Emanuel Sandhu

Emanuel Sandhu
nation	Canada
birthday	November 18, 1980
place of birth	Toronto, Ontario
Career
discipline	Single run
society	North Shore Winter Club
Trainer	Joanne McLeod
status	resigned
End of career	2007
Medal table
VK medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Four continents championships silver Hamilton 2004 Men's
Personal best
Total points 228.29 GPF 2003/04  Freestyle 152.74 GPF 2003/04  Short program 78.41 World Cup 2006
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 1 0 0  Grand Prix competitions 3 1 3

Emanuel Sandhu (born November 18, 1980 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian figure skater who started in a single run .

Sandhu was born in Toronto and raised in Richmond Hill . His mother is from Italy , his father is a Sikh . Sandhu began taking ballet lessons at the age of three and figure skating at the age of eight. He graduated from Canada's prestigious National Ballet School. A year after he started figure skating, he was discovered by Joanne McLeod . She remained his trainer until the end of his career.

In 2001, 2003 and 2004, Sandhu became the Canadian champion. At world championships he was able to place five times in the top ten, his best result was fifth place at the 2006 World Cup in Calgary, home . In 2004 he was runner-up at the four continents championships behind his compatriot Jeffrey Buttle . Shortly before, he had surprisingly won the Grand Prix final ahead of Yevgeny Pljuschtschenko and achieved a personal record number of 228.29 points. Sandhu took part in the Winter Olympics twice. In 2002 in Salt Lake City he had to withdraw injured, in 2006 in Turin he was 13.

Results

Championship / year	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
winter Olympics					Z				13.
World championships	29	18th		9.		8th.	8th.	7th	5.	16.
Four continents championships		10.	13.	7th		5.	2.			9.
Junior World Championships	11.
Canadian Championships	2.	2.	2.	1.	2.	1.	1.	2.	2.	3.
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Grand Prix competition / season	97/98	98/99	99/00	00/01	01/02	02/03	03/04	04/05	05/06	06/07
Grand Prix Final							1.	4th	5.
Skate America				4th		6th
Skate Canada					5.	2.	4th	1.	1.
Cup of Russia										5.
Eric Bompard Trophy		3.			9.			3.
Sparkassen Cup			8th.	6th
NHK Trophy		6th
Cup of China							5.		1.	3.

• Z = withdrawn

Web links

• Emanuel Sandhu in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
• Emanuel Sandhu in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )