Jeffrey Buttle

Jeffrey Buttle
nation	Canada
birthday	September 1, 1982
place of birth	Smooth Rock Falls, Ontario
size	173 cm
Career
discipline	Single run
society	Sudbury SC
Trainer	Lee Barkell, Rafael Arutunian, Doug Leigh, Wendy Philion
choreographer	David Wilson
End of career	2008
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 1 × 1 × 0 × VKM medals 2 × 2 × 0 ×
winter Olympics bronze Turin 2006 Men's  World figure skating championships silver Moscow 2005 Men's gold Gothenburg 2008 Men's Four continents championships gold Jeonju 2002 Men's gold Hamilton 2004 Men's silver Colorado Springs 2007 Men's silver Goyang 2008 Men's
Personal best
Total points 245.17 World Cup 2008  Freestyle 163.07 World Cup 2008  Short program 83.85 VKM 2008
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 0 2 0  Grand Prix competitions 3 3 2

Jeffrey Buttle (born September 1, 1982 in Smooth Rock Falls , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian figure skater who started in a single run . He is the world champion of 2008 and the Four Continents champion of 2002 and of 2004.

Career

Jeffrey Buttle started figure skating at the age of two and competed in competitions from the age of six. He also took part in ice dancing competitions with his older sister Meghan . During his professional career, he lived in Barrie , Ontario and trained at the Mariposa School of Skating. Although he is not a French-Canadian, Buttle attended the École Don Bosco, a French-speaking primary school, and thus also learned the French language. Before devoting himself entirely to figure skating, he studied chemistry by the hour at the University of Toronto .

After Buttle had won the four continents championships in 2002 and 2004 , he became vice world champion in 2005 behind Stéphane Lambiel . At his first and only Olympic Games in Turin in 2006 , he won the bronze medal behind Yevgeny Pljuschtschenko and Stéphane Lambiel. Two years later, the three-time Canadian champion became world champion in Gothenburg with a personal best, celebrating his greatest sporting triumph. In 2008 he ended his career and did not take the chance to compete in the 2010 Olympic Games in his own country .

Buttle works today as a choreographer , among others for Kim Yu-na , Patrick Chan , Javier Fernández and Yuzuru Hanyū .

He has been married to Justin Harris since February 2014.

Results

Competition / season	1998/99	1999/00	2000/01	2001/02	2002/03	2003/04	2004/05	2005/06	2006/07	2007/08
winter Olympics								3.
World championships				8th.	15th		2.	6th	6th	1.
Four continents championships				1.	4th	1.			2.	2.
Grand Prix Final						Z	2.	2.
Junior World Championships			7th
Canadian Championships	10.	6th	9.	3.	2.	3.	1.	1.	1.	2.

• Z = withdrawn

Buttle 2008 at Canadian Stars on Ice in Halifax.

Web links

Commons : Jeffrey Buttle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jeffrey Buttle in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
• Jeffrey Buttle in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• official page

Footnotes

1. ^ N-tv.de, Before the Olympics in your own country - world champion Buttle quits , Sept. 11, 2008
2. ↑ Jeff Buttle's creative ideas come alive on the Stars on Ice tours , May 20, 2014 |