Scott Moir
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birthday | 2nd September 1987 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Ilderton, Ontario, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 172 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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discipline | Ice dance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Partner | Tessa Virtue | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
society | Ilderton Skating Club, Arctic Edge FSC, Montreal International School of Skating |
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Trainer | Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon, Romain Haguenauer |
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Former trainers | Marina Zueva, Oleg Epstein, Jonny Johns, Igor Shpilband, Carol Moir, Paul MacIntosh, Suzanne Killing (1997–2014) |
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choreographer | David Wilson, Marie-France Dubreuil, Samul Chouinard |
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status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
End of career | 18th September 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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last change: February 21, 2018 |
Scott Moir (born September 2, 1987 in London , Ontario ) is a former Canadian figure skater who started in ice dancing . Scott Moir's partner has been Tessa Virtue since 1997 and the ice dance couple was trained by Marie-France Dubreuil , Patrice Lauzon and Romain Haguenauer.
Career
Scott Moir comes from a figure skating family. His mother is a figure skating trainer, his brother Danny was also an ice dancer and started at the international junior level together with cousin Sheri. Sheri and his other cousin Cara won the bronze medal with the Canadian team at the synchronized figure skating world championship in 2007. Moir's aunt Carol was his first ice dance coach.
Moir started figure skating at the age of three. In 1997, Moir's family ran a training camp and his aunt brought him and Tessa Virtue together.
2000s
In the 2003/04 season Virtue and Moir made their debut in the Junior Grand Prix series and won the Canadian Junior Championships. At the Junior World Championships they took eleventh place. After a silver medal in the following year, they won the Junior World Championship in Ljubljana in 2006 as the first Canadian ever. In doing so, they not only defeated the Russians Natalja Michailowa and Arkadi Sergejew , but also the Americans Meryl Davis and Charlie White , who would later become their biggest competitors in the senior class. Also in the 2005/06 season, Virtue and Moir won the Junior Grand Prix Final and won their first medal at a major international championship, namely bronze at the Four Continents Championships in Colorado Springs .
In the 2006/07 season Virtue and Moir contested their first Grand Prix competition . At Skate Canada they won the silver medal straight away. They finished the national championships as runner-up behind Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon . In their second four continents championships they defended their bronze medal from the previous year. In March 2007, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir made their debut at world championships . In Tokyo , they took sixth place.
The 2007-08 season brought the Canadians their first victory in a Grand Prix competition , they won the gold medal at Skate Canada . They finished their first Grand Prix final in fourth place. In Vancouver they became Canadian champions for the first time. In their third participation in four continents championships , they won the gold medal in Goyang, South Korea, ahead of Meryl Davis and Charlie White . Virtue / Moir were runner-up in Gothenburg when they took part in the world championship for the second time, even beating the future world champions Isabelle Delobel and Olivier Schoenfelder in the freestyle to the music of Michel Legrand's Die Regenschirme von Cherbourg .
Virtue and Moir missed the first half of the following season due to a protracted injury to Virtue. It was not until December that they stood on the ice together for the first time and defended their national championship title. At the Four Continents Championship in February 2009, they won the silver medal behind Meryl Davis and Charlie White . They were able to leave them behind at the world championship and won the bronze medal behind the Russians Oxana Domnina and Maxim Schabalin and the Americans Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto .
2010s
The Olympic season began for Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir with victories in their two Grand Prix competitions , the Eric Bompard Trophy and Skate Canada . Both times they defeated the French Nathalie Péchalat and Fabian Bourzat . At Skate Canada they were the first ice dance couple to receive the maximum rating of 10.0 for the components under the new rating system, the Code of Points. At the Grand Prix final, Virtue and Moir lost to Davis and White. It would be the Canadians' only defeat this season. For the third time in a row they became Canadian champions and so went to their first Olympic Games . In front of their home crowd, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir won the gold medal in Vancouver ahead of their greatest competitors Meryl Davis and Charlie White . In the freestyle, they received four top marks. Virtue and Moir were the first Canadians and the first ever North Americans to win Olympic gold in ice dancing . They were also the youngest ice dance couple to become Olympic champions and the first to do so on their Olympic debut as well as in their own country. A few weeks later, the Canadians made the triumph perfect and won their first world championship title in Turin . In doing so, they defeated Davis and White again. They set a new world record in the original dance and received numerous top marks in the original dance and in the freestyle.
In October 2010, Tessa Virtue had to undergo an operation. This led to the cancellation of all Grand Prix competitions and the national championship. Her first competition of the 2010/11 season was the Four Continents Championships in Taipei . After the newly introduced short dance Virtue and Moir were in the lead and had to give up during the freestyle due to a muscle problem with Virtue. At the World Championships in Moscow , the Canadians led again after the short dance, in which they had set a new world record . Their freestyle was rated worse by the judges than that of the Americans Meryl Davis and Charlie White , behind whom Virtue and Moir thus won the silver medal.
Virtue and Moir started the 2011/12 season with victories in their two Grand Prix competitions . In the Grand Prix final, however, they were defeated by Meryl Davis and Charlie White . At the four continents championships and the world championships , however, the Canadians were able to turn the result around again and won ahead of their big competitors from the USA.
In the 2012/13 season Virtue and Moir won all Grand Prix competitions but were beaten in the final by Meryl Davis and Charlie White . They became Canadian champions and four continent champions. They won silver at the World Championships in London, Ontario.
At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , Moir won the silver medal in ice dancing with Virtue and also achieved second place with the team. With 190.99 points (76.33 points in the short program / 114.66 points in the freestyle) they were only worse than Meryl Davis and Charlie White from the USA in ice dancing . In the team competition they achieved 72.98 points in the short program and 107.56 points in the subsequent freestyle, which meant that they only had to admit defeat to Davis and White.
Withdrawal, comeback and change of coach
After the exhausting season, Virtue and Moir retired for the 2014/15 and 2015/16 seasons. They danced in shows like "Stars on Ice" and delighted their fans.
After a coaching change from Marina Zueva , Jonny Johns and Igor Shpilband to their current coaches, they decided to come back for the 2018 Olympic Games in Pyeongchang . Her "comeback" was in the 2016/17 season, which was extremely successful for her. They won their third world championship in Helsinki, Finland and became Canadian champions for the seventh time. He ended his active career on September 18, 2019. In 2019, Virtue and Moir received an honorary doctorate from the University of Western Ontario in recognition of their life's work in sport .
Book and show
In October 2010 the book by Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir is " Tessa and Scott: Our Journey from Childhood Dream to Gold ". In 2013 they were followed by cameras before the Olympic Games. January 2014, a reality show from her life appeared on W Network.
Results
Ice dance
(with Tessa Virtue )
Championship / year | 02/03 | 03/04 | 04/05 | 05/06 | 06/07 | 07/08 | 08/09 | 09/10 | 10/11 | 11/12 | 12/13 | 13/14 | 16/17 | 17/18 |
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winter Olympics | 1. | 2. | 1. | |||||||||||
Olympic Winter Games (team) | 2. | 1. | ||||||||||||
World championships | 6th | 2. | 3. | 1. | 2. | 1. | 2. | 1. | ||||||
Four continents championships | 3. | 3. | 1. | 2. | Z | 1. | 2. | 1. | ||||||
World Team Trophy | 2. | 3. | ||||||||||||
Junior World Championships | 11. | 2. | 1. | |||||||||||
Canadian Championships | 7th J | 1st J | 4th | 3. | 2. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. | |
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Grand Prix competition / season | 02/03 | 03/04 | 04/05 | 05/06 | 06/07 | 07/08 | 08/09 | 09/10 | 10/11 | 11/12 | 12/13 | 13/14 | 16/17 | 17/18 |
Grand Prix Final | 4th | Z | 2. | 2. | 1. | 1. | 2. | |||||||
Skate Canada | 2. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. | ||||||
Cup of Russia | 1. | |||||||||||||
Eric Bompard Trophy | 4th | 1. | 1. | |||||||||||
NHK Trophy | 2. | 1. | 1. | 1. |
- J = juniors; Z = withdrawn
Web links
- Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
- Scott Moir in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Web presence of the ice dance couple Virtue / Moir
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eistanz, accessed on February 21, 2014 ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ ARD Olympia, figure skating team competition. Archived from the original on April 4, 2015 ; accessed on February 21, 2014 .
- ↑ Three times Olympic gold: Ice dancers Virtue / Moir end their careers. ran.de, September 18, 2019, accessed on August 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Virtue / Moir end career . In: pirouette . Volume 52, No. 8, 2019, p. 7.
- ↑ Honorary doctorates for Virtue and Moir . In: pirouette . Volume 52, No. 9, 2019, p. 7.
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SURNAME | Moir, Scott |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian figure skater |
DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd September 1987 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | London (Ontario) |