Robert McCall

This article is about the figure skater. For the artist, see Robert T. McCall .

Robert McCall
Robert McCall and Tracy Wilson on the ISU summer exhibition tour in the Berlin Dynamo ice rink, 1985
nation	Canada
birthday	September 14, 1958
place of birth	Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
size	175 cm
Weight	72 kg
date of death	November 15, 1991
Place of death	Ottawa, Ontario
Career
discipline	Ice dance
Partner	Tracy Wilson, Marie McNeil
End of career	1988
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 3 ×
winter Olympics bronze Calgary 1988 Ice dance  World figure skating championships bronze Geneva 1986 Ice dance bronze Cincinnati 1987 Ice dance bronze Budapest 1988 Ice dance

Robert McCall , CM (born September 14, 1958 in Dartmouth , Nova Scotia , † November 15, 1991 in Ottawa , Ontario ) was a Canadian figure skater who started in ice dancing .

His first ice dance partner was Marie McNeil . The ice dance couple finished their two world championships in 1980 and 1981 in 13th place respectively, in 1981 McNeill and McCall were Canadian ice dance champions.

From 1982 McCall ran alongside Tracy Wilson . From 1982 to the end of their career in 1988 they were Canadian champions in ice dance and took part in all world championships during this period . At the World Championships in 1986 in Geneva , 1987 in Cincinnati and 1988 in Budapest , they each won the bronze medal behind the two Soviet ice dance couples Natalja Bestemjanowa and Andrei Bukin as well as Marina Klimowa and Sergei Ponomarenko . Wilson and McCall also won bronze in this order at the 1988 Olympic Games in Calgary . At their first Olympic Games in Sarajevo in 1984 , they finished eighth.

After the 1988 Olympic Games , Tracy Wilson and Robert McCall ended their amateur careers and switched to professionals . In 1989 they became world champions among professionals. They also ran for the ice revue Stars On Ice.

In March 1990 McCall fell ill with pneumonia while on tour with Brian Boitano and Katarina Witt . The doctors diagnosed him with AIDS . McCall kept this a secret in the hope of continuing to be a professional figure skater in the US. However, his health deteriorated and on November 15, 1991, at the age of 33, he succumbed to brain cancer caused by AIDS. In 1999 Scott Hamilton came out as gay in his autobiography Landing It: My Life On And Off The Ice McCall.

Results

Ice dance

(with Marie McNeil )

Competition / year	1978	1979	1980	1981
World championships			13.	13.
Canadian Championships	3.	3.	2.	1.

(with Tracy Wilson )

Competition / year	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988
winter Olympics			8th.				3.
World championships	10.	6th	6th	4th	3.	3.	3.
Canadian Championships	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.

Web links

• Robert McCall in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FIGURE SKATING; AIDS Deaths Tear at Figure-Skating World
2. ↑ Scott Hamilton; Lorenzo Benet, 1999, Landing It: My Life On And Off The Ice , ISBN 1-57566-466-6