Eric Radford

Eric Radford
nation	Canada
birthday	January 27, 1985
place of birth	Balmertown, Ontario
size	188 cm
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	Meagan Duhamel
Former partner	Sarah Burke, Rachel Kirkland
Trainer	Richard Gauthier, Bruno Marcotte , Sylvie Fullum
choreographer	Julie Marcotte
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 2 × 0 × 2 × VKM medals 2 × 2 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver Sochi 2014 team gold Pyeongchang 2018 team  World figure skating championships bronze London (Ontario) 2013 Couples bronze Saitama 2014 Couples gold Shanghai 2015 Couples gold Boston 2016 Couples Four continents championships silver Taipei 2011 Couples gold Osaka 2013 Couples gold Seoul 2015 Couples silver Gangneung 2017 Couples
Personal best
Total points 231.99 World Cup 2016  Freestyle 153.81 World Cup 2016  Short program 78.39 Skate Canada 2016
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 1 1 2  Grand Prix competitions 7th 3 4th
last change: December 6, 2017

Eric Radford (born January 27, 1985 in Balmertown , Ontario ) is a Canadian figure skater who starts in pair skating . He is world champion in 2015 and 2016 and four continents champion in 2013 and 2015 (together with Meagan Duhamel ).

Career

Radford has been running alongside Meagan Duhamel since 2010 .

In 2011 the figure skating couple won the silver medal at the four continents championships. In 2012 Duhamel / Radford became Canadian champions for the first time . In 2013 they defended this title and won their first major international title with gold at the Four Continents Championships in Osaka . At the following world championship in London , Canada , the couple won their first medal at world championships with bronze . The following year they repeated this in Saitama .

Duhamel / Radford became world champions at the 2015 World Championships in Shanghai . They also defended this title at the 2016 World Cup in Boston .

Personal

In early December 2014, Radford came out as gay . Since February 11, 2018, he has been the first openly gay male gold medalist in the history of the Winter Olympics.

Results

Pair skating

(with Meagan Duhamel )

Competition / year	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
winter Olympics				7th
World championships	7th	5.	3.	3.	1.	1.	7th
Four continents championships	2.	4th	1.		1.		2.
World Team Trophy		3.
Canadian Championships	2.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.
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Grand Prix competition / season	10/11	11/12	12/13	13/14	14/15	15/16	16/17	17/18
Grand Prix Final		5.	4th	5.	1.	2.	3.	3.
Skate Canada	5.	3.	2.	3.	1.	1.	1.	1.
Skate America								3.
Eric Bompard Trophy		3.	2.	2.
NHK Trophy					1.	1.	1.

Web links

Commons : Eric Radford  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford in the database of the International Skating Union (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Eric Radford: Olympic figure skater, medal-winning family man. And gay." . Outsports , December 4, 2014.
2. ↑ Eric Radford: Skater is first openly gay man to win Winter Olympics gold ( English ) BBC. February 13, 2018. Retrieved February 13, 2018.