Skaters you've seen live

[icenut84]

I haven't been to that many events (actually, hardly any) but I thought it'd be interesting to write down all the skaters we've seen live. (For those of you who could write 1000000000 names, maybe be easier to keep it to the most famous ones)

For me:

Torvill & Dean
Anissina & Peizerat
Berezhnaya & Sikharulidze
Sasha Cohen
Kristi Yamaguchi
Kurt Browning
Ilia Kulik
Steven Cousins
Humphreys & Baranov (and other British skaters)

I think that's it, of the well-known ones...

[Tpangner]

Kurt Browning
Alexei Yagudin
Brian Orser
Scott Hamilton
Steven Cousins
Todd Eldredge
Brian Boitano
Jayson Denommee

Bourne/Kraatz
Sale/Pelletier
Brasseur/Eisler
Berezhnaya/Sikharulidze
Meno/Sand
Wakamatsu/Fecteau
Marcoux/Buntin
Zagorska/Siudek
Ina/Zimmerman

Kristi Yamaguchi
Jennifer Robinson
Josee Chouinard
Lu Chen
Joannie Rochette
Lucinda Ruh

And many others unknown canadian skaters !!!!

[Sk8Bunny]

David and Jamie
Elena and Anton
Ina and Zimmerman
Katia Gordeeva
Roca and Sur
Tara Lipinski
Kurt Browning
Oksana Bauil(sp?)
Scott Hamilton
Denis Petrov(sp?)
Kristi Yamaguchi
Steven Cousins
Todd Elderedge
Melissa Gregory and her partner(???)

Ann Patrice McDonough
Ryan Bradley
Ryan Jahnke

A bunch of national competitors at junior level skaters:
Grant Marron and Jenna Yount
Katie Uhlig and Colin Loomis
Brandi Sandoval and Larry Ibarro
Brittany Vise and Nick Kole
Tiffany Vise and Derek Trent
Lauren Hennesy
Erica Archmbault
i wont go on, cause most likely a lot of posters here havent heard many of these junior/early senior level names before.

[triple twist]

Michelle Kwan
Jamie and David
Sarah Hughes
Irina Slutskaya
Bourne and Kraatz
Annissa and Peizerat
Michelle Currie
Steven Cousins
Emanuel Sandhu
Tom Goebal
Todd Eldridge
Evgeni Plushenko
The Chinese Pairs (can't remember their names)

[purplecat]

I feel very fortunate to have seen the following skaters :) :) :):

Kristi Yamaguchi, Katarina Witt, Nicole Bobek, Rosalynn Sumners, Lu Chen, Tara Lipinski, Jill Trenary, Ekaterina Gordeeva, Oksana Baiul, Nancy Kerrigan, Tonya Harding, Denise Beillmann, Michelle Kwan, Sasha Cohen, Irina Slutskaya, Peggy Fleming, Surya Bonaly, Irina Grigorian, Sarah Hughes, Jenny Kirk, Ann Patrice McDonough, Beatrisa Liang, Angela Nikodinov, Amber Corwin, Andrea Gardiner, YeBin Mok, Fumie Suguri, Yuka Sato, Midori Ito and some more lesser known U.S. skaters

Brian Boitano, Brian Orser, Scott Hamilton, Paul Wylie, Kurt Browning, Alexei Yagudin, Todd Eldredge, Michael Weiss, Ilia Kulik, Steven Cousins, Evgeni Plushenko, Viktor Petrenko, Gary Beacom, Mark Mitchell, Phillipe Candeloro, Rudy Galindo, Scott Davis, Christopher Bowman, Timothy Goebel, Elvis Stojko, Dan Hollander, Petr Barna, Besedin and Polishuk

Meno and Sand, Bechke and Petrov, Mishkutenok and Dmitriev, Kazakova and Dmitriev, Gordeeva and Grinkov, Sale and Pelletier, Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze, Ina and Zimmerman, Brasseur and Eisler, Hough and Ladret, Underhill and Martini, Valova and Vasiliev, the Carruthers, Kuchiki and Sand, Urbanski and Marvel, Babilonia and Gardner

Torvill and Dean, Roca and Sur, Punsalan and Swallow, Lang and Tchernyshev, Anissina and Peizerat, Krylova and Ovsiannikov, Annenko and Srtenski, Rahkamo and Kokko, Wynne and Druar, Wilson and McCall, the Duchesnays, Klimova and Ponomarenko, Usova and Zhulin, Bestimianova and Bukin, Engi and Toth, Bourne and Kraatz

[Sing_Alto]

Men:

Brian Boitano, Paul Wylie, Elvis Stojko, Todd Eldredge, Rudy Galindo,
Scott Davis, Philippe Candeloro, Viktor Petrenko, Gary Beacom, Aren Nielsen, Scott Williams, Eric Millot, Petr Barna, Mark Mitchell, Alexei Urmanov

Ladies:

Michelle Kwan, Kristi Yamaguchi, Lu Chen, Oksana Baiul, Nancy Kerrigan, Nicole Bobek, Katia Gordeeva, Roz Sumners, Denise Biellmann, Jill Trenary, Surya Bonaly

Pairs:

Gordeeva & Grinkov, Underhill & Martini, Babilonia & Gardner, Mishkutenok & Dmitriev, The Steiglers, Kovarikova & Novotny, Brasseur & Eisler, Meno & Sand, Hartshorn & Sweiding

Dance:

Torvill & Dean, Roca & Sur, Klimova & Ponomarenko, Usova & Zhulin, Punsalan & Swallow, The Duchesnays, Bourne & Kraatz, Grishuk & Platov

[sasafrass452]

Hmm, let's see....

Paul Wylie
Rosalyn Sumners
Brian Orser

There were others, but I can't remember who since it's been so long.

[plinko]

I was never really a Todd Eldridge fan until I had the occasion to see him skate live, in competition and then in SOI. I was an instant convert. He really is the skaters' skater. If you ever have a chance to see him skate live, please go.

[FSWer]

I have seen Sasha Cohen,Kati Orsher and Garrette (sorry,I can't spell his name without looking at it). I also got to see cute little Daria Gordeeva Grinkova skate one time in a Holiday show. She had on a red dress. I was so desperate to meet her and Katia.

[danibellerika]

I've seen all the skaters at the 2003 World Championships for ladies and men.

[witewave]

I've been fortunate to see all of these skaters this year!


Elvis Stojko,Viktor Petrenko, Phillipe Candeloro, Rudy Galindo, Evgeny Plushenko, Tim Goebel, Michael Weiss, Jeff Buttle, Takeshi Honda, Alexei Yagudin, Chenjiang Li, Ryan Jahnke, Kevin Van Der Perren, Fedor Andreev

Dorothy Hamill, Nancy Kerrigan, Michelle Kwan, Sasha Cohen, Elena Sokolova, Fumie Suguri, Irina Slutskaya, Jennifer Robinson, Elizabeth Manley, Nicole Bobek, Josee Chouinard (yet to see her skate!) Joannie Rochette, Annie Bellemare, Surya Bonaly, Julia Sebestyen, Shizuka Arakawa, Yukina Oto

Isabelle Brasseur/Lloyd Eisler, Anabelle Langlois/Patrice Archetto, Elizabeth Putnam/Sean Wirtz, Valerie Marcoux/Craig Buntin, Tatiana Totmianina/Maxim Marinin, Dorota Zagorska/Mariusz Siudek, Xue Shen/Hongbo Zhao

Shae-Lynn Bourne/Victor Kraatz, Marie-France Dubreil/Patrice Lauzon, Albena Denkova/Maxim Staviyski, Tatiana Navka/Roman Kostomarov, Galit Chait/Sergei Sakhnovski, Megan Wing/Aaron Lowe, Naomi Lang/Peter Tchernyshev, Elizabeth Punsalan/Jerrod Swallow,Debbie Koegel/Oleg Feduikov

[Jennifer]

Alexei Yagudin, Takeshi Honda, Brian Orser
Jennifer Robinson, Maria Butryskaya, Angela Nikodinov
Berezhnaya/Sikharulidze, Ina/Zimmerman

[triple twist]

Oh my goodness! I totally forgot to say my KING! Elvis Stojko!!
And Tara lipinkski too!

[Intensity20]

Off hand... Elvis Stojko, Liz Manley, Jennifer Robinson, Brasseur and Eisler, Bourne and Kraatz, Philippe Candeloro, Rudy Galindo, Surya Bonaly, Urbanski and Marval, Sargeant and Wirtz... many more I can't think of off hand.

[sweetlilnothing]

Dance: Bourne/Kraatz, Dubreuil/Lauzon, Wing/Lowe, Piché/Denis, Denkova/Staviyski, Lang/Tchernyshev, Punsalan/Swallow, Roca/Sur, Navka/Kostomorov, Chait/Sakhonski, Usova/Platov, Fusar-Poli/Margaglio, Drobiazko/Vanagas, Beier/Beier, Fraser/Lukanin, Watanabe/Kido, Galler-Rabinowitz/Mitchell, Grushina/Goncharov, Longpre/Zuwisky (sp), Lefebvre/Brunet, Koinurma/Arakalin, Humphreys/Askew, Chalom/Gates, Nowak/Kolasinski, Semenovich/Fedoroc, Gregory/Petukhoc, Piperno/Daughtery

Men: Alexei Yagudin, Eldredge, Tim Goebel, Ivan Dinev, Takeshi Honda, Ryan Jahnke, Brian Orser, Elvis Stojko, Don Jackson, Kurt Browning, Jeff Buttle, Shawn Sawyer, Emanuel Sandhu, Fedor Andreev, Ben Ferreira, Steven Cousins, Brian Boitano, Evengi Plushenko, Viktor Petrenko, Kulik, Hollander, Rudy Galindo, Philippe Canderloro, Nicholas Young, Stanislav Timchenko, Keven Vander Perren, Chengjiang Li, Mike Weiss, Stanick Jeannette, Parker Pennington, Jozef Sabovcik, Jeff Langdon, Eric Millot, Thierry Cerez, Andrei Vlachtchenko, Jayson Denoumee, Scott Davis, Cornel Georghe, Dmitry Dmitrenko, Dasuke Tatahashi, Fabrizio Garattoni

Pairs: Shen/Zhao, Putnam/Wirtz, Brasseur/Eisler, Ina/Zimmerman, Meno/Sand, Berezhnaya/Sikharulidze, Salé/Pelletier, Langlois/Archetto, Kazakova/Dmitriev, Totmianina/Marinin, Petrova/Tikhonov, Ding/Ren, Arbitbol/Bernadis, Orbertas/Slavnov, Marcoux/Buntin, Orscher/Lucash, Spielberg/Joeright, Zagorska/Siudek, Higgins/Rice, Woetzel/Steuer, Meinzes/Bombardier, Schwartz/Mueller, Sargeant/Wirtz, Eltsova/Bushkov, Rodgers/Aldred, Ina/Dungjen, Shiskova/Naumov, Protopopovs

Ladies: Elena Solokova, Irina Gigorian, Irina Slutskaya, Ludmile Nelidina, Maria Butrayskaya, Elena Liachenko, Yulia Vorobieva, Liz Manley, Josée Chouinard, Emily Manley, Jennifer Robinson, Annie Bellemare, Joannie Rochette, Michelle Currie, Karen Preston, Susan Humphreys, Michelle Kwan, Sarah Hughes, Angela Nikodinov, Tara Lipinksi, Sasha Cohen, Nicole Bobek, Ann Patrice McDonough, Yoshie Honda, Fumie Suguri, Katarina Witt, Astrid Hochstetter, Tatiana Malinina, Tonia Kwiatkowski, Lu Chen, Silvia Fontana, Lucinda Ruh,

[Roma]

Originally posted by plinko
I was never really a Todd Eldridge fan until I had the occasion to see him skate live, in competition and then in SOI. I was an instant convert. He really is the skaters' skater. If you ever have a chance to see him skate live, please go.

That's interesting, because I found Eldredge very disappointing in person. I saw him at Nationals three times, and even though he won each time, none of the three was that great. In both 97 and 98, many in the audience even groaned when he won the long -- it seems that both of these times (especially 98) many in the audience thought Weiss should have won the long.

He always gave me the impression that he either wasn't fully prepared for Nats or wasn't giving it his best. I found his performance quite lackluster. (And by 98, I was reaaaaaaallllllly tired of that same old combination spin. It's very good, but IMO it was very, very overused.)

In all 3 Nats I attended he was one of the weaker champions compared to the other 3 disciplines.

[Josef]

Sounds fun! I'll stick to the at-least-semi-known skaters.. Here goes:

Bechke/Petrov, Brasseur/Eisler, Urbanski/Marval, Kovarikova/Novotny, Meno/Sand, Woetzel/Steuer, Sargeant-Wirtz/Wirtz, Kazakova/Dmitriev, Ina/Zimmerman, Shen/Zhao, Shishkova/Naumov, Sato/Dungjen, Spielberg/Joeright, Quigley/Cording, Vise/Ibarra, Howerton/Pottenger, Kalesavich/Parchem, Totmianina/Marinin, Inoue/Baldwin, Baca/Smith, Sale/Pelletier, Berezhnaya/Sikharulidze

Paul Wylie, Kurt Browning, Jozef Sabovcik, Alexander Fadeev, Scott Hamilton, Rudy Galindo, Philippe Candeloro, Brian Boitano, Victor Petrenko, Ilia Kulik, Todd Eldredge, Damon Allen, Alexei Yagudin, Steven Cousins, Brian Orser, Dan Hollander, Viacheslav Zagorodniuk, Craig Heath, Colin Pennington, Michael Dimalanta, Eric Radford, Ryan Bradley, Evan Lysacek, Ryan Jahnke, Parker Pennington, Rohene Ward, Danny Clausen, Braden Overett, Jordan Brauninger, Dustin Brinsmade, Benjamin Miller, Michael Weiss, Elvis Stojko, Timothy Goebel, Evgeny Plushenko

Torvill/Dean, Mcdonald/Smith, Wynne/Witherby, Usova/Zhulin, Klimova/Ponomarenko, Grishuk/Platov, Krylova/Ovsiannikov, Punsalan/Swallow, Roca/Sur, Graham/Neumann-Aubichon, Steeves/Coreno (anyone know if they're still together?), Virtue/Moir, Davis/White, Gregory/Petukhov, Beckerdite/Kelling, Ralph/O'Meara, Steed/Hill, Chait/Sakhnovski, Lang/Tchernyshev, Lobacheva/Averbukh, Bourne/Kraatz

Kristi Yamaguchi, Katarina Witt, Anna Kondrashova, Karen Preston, Ekaterina Gordeeva, Michelle Kwan, Lu Chen, Surya Bonaly, Tonia Kwiatkowski, Nancy Kerrigan, Oksana Baiul, Naomi Nari Nam, Angela Nikodinov, Josée Chouinard, Maria Butyrskaya, Nicole Bobek, Yuka Sato, Tara Lipinski, Gia Guddat, Rory Burghart, Katherine Healy, Lisa Bell, Krysta Pouliot, Lisa Dannemiller, Meagan Duhamel, Michelle Cantu, Monica Boucher, Lauren Wilson, Jordana Blesa, Jennifer Don, Amber Czisny, Cynthia Phaneuf, Kristen Sheaffer, Ann Patrice McDonough, Andrea Gardiner, Alissa Czisny, Katie Lee, Andrea Aggeler, Heidi Pakkala, Katie Stewart, Kristen Mita, Tiffany Vise, Lucinda Ruh, Sasha Cohen, Irina Slutskaya, Irina Grigorian, Sarah Hughes, Dorothy Hamill, Shanell Noji, Elena Sokolova, Lisa Horstman, Angie Lien, Elizabeth Manley

[Josef]

Originally posted by Roma
That's interesting, because I found Eldredge very disappointing in person.

I would have to beg to differ on this one. I have seen Todd live numerous times, and one of his performances stands among my top five performances I've ever seen in person -- when he skated to "The Glory" in the interpretive free at the 1999 Masters of Figure Skating pro-am in Green Bay, WI. It was simply an incredible skate, one that still gives me chills when I think about that night.

[Roma]

Josef, I'm not saying he never gave any very good performances. But I am saying that he can be quite disppointing. For example, when I attended both the 97 and 98 Nats, of the 4 national champions, I thought he was the least impressive. (In fact I don't think he even landed a triple axel-triple toe in any one of the 3 long programs I saw.)

I also think he found a style that works for him, but he has done the same elements so, so, so many times that I found hime no longer interesting. His ending combination spin was very much like Irina's: a great highlight the first 5 or 6 times you saw it, but by the 100th time it certainly lost its effect.

Of all the skaters I've seen live, (Yamaguchi, Shen and Zhao, Kwan, etc, etc,) he would not even make the top 25 in most impressive performances.

[alexeiluvr]

At Skate America '02 (Spokane, WA)
Michelle Kwan (ew)
Ann Patrice
Brian Joubert
Alexei Yagudin (SOOOOOOOOO CUTE)
Todd Eldredge
Elena Liashenko
Belbin/Agosto!!!!!
Scott/Dulebohn
Matt Savoie
Navka/Kostomarov
Grushina/Goncharov

Stars on Ice 2000
Tara Lipinski
Kurt Browning
Scott Hamilton
Ilia Kulik
Katia Gordeeva

Lots more, just listing most familiar ones...

[Lulia]

I haven't attended many live events.

Everybody who competed at Skate Canada last year.
In April 1989, I saw a show at the Montreal Forum that showcased these skaters:

Brian Orser
Katarina Witt
Scott Hamilton
Gary Beacom
Toller Cranston
Jaimee Eggleton (one time Canadian Jr. champ)
Lee Ann Miller and Bill Fauver
Wilson and McCall
Rosalynn Sumners

I saw the Ice Capades in 1981 and 1985, so whoever was on their Canadian tour. (Underhill and Martini, I think, were there in 1985)On an other occasion, I saw Norm Proft, a rather voidy Canadian artistic skater in the late 80s.

[rinkrat]

hey good idea, I have attneded CND Nat '02, Skate Can 00,02, 03, Grand Prix Final '02, Holiday and Celebration on Ice 02 (ontario), SOI01-02, Skate the Nation 02? I think, Sk8 with Elvis 02, Gotta Skate 03,B&E Dreams 03.....hummm that's it I think
I am borrowing a post form someone else but eliminating and adding any they don't have
Pairs: Brasseur/Eisler, Meno/Sand, Woetzel/Steuer, Sargeant-Wirtz/Wirtz, Ina/Zimmerman, Shen/Zhao, Sato/Dungjen, Totmianina/Marinin, Sale/Pelletier, Berezhnaya/Sikharulidze, Putnam/Wirtz, Langlois/Archetto, Petrova/Tikhonov, Ding/Ren, Arbitbol/Bernadis, Orbertas/Slavnov, Marcoux/Buntin, Orscher/Lucash, Zagorska/Siudek,

Jeff Buttle, Shawn Sawyer, Emanuel Sandhu, Fedor Andreev, Ben Ferreira, Takeshi Honda, Markus Leminen, Michael Hopfes, Chris Mabee, Hugh Yik, Elvis Stojko, Timothy Goebel, Evgeny Plushenko, Alexei Yagudin, Steven Cousins, Brian Orser, Paul Wylie, Kurt Browning, Jozef Sabovcik, Scott Hamilton, Rudy Galindo, Philippe Candeloro, Brian Boitano, Victor Petrenko, Todd Eldredge, Dan Hollander, Eric Radford, Ryan Bradley, Ryan Jahnke, Stanislav Timchenko, Keven Vander Perren, Chengjiang Li, Stanick Jeannette, Jayson Denoumee,Dasuke Tatahashi,Jeff Langdon

Dance: Annissa and Peizerat, Bourne/Kraatz, Dubreuil/Lauzon, Wing/Lowe, Piché/Denis, Denkova/Staviyski, Lang/Tchernyshev, Punsalan/Swallow, Roca/Sur, Navka/Kostomorov, Chait/Sakhonski, Usova/Platov, Fusar-Poli/Margaglio, Drobiazko/Vanagas, Beier/Beier, Fraser/Lukanin, Grushina/Goncharov, Longpre/Zuwisky (sp), Lefebvre/Brunet, Piperno/Daughtery, Krylova/Ovsiannikov, Virtue/Moir, Lobacheva/Averbukh, Doherty/Myles

Elena Sokolova, Michelle Kwan, Lu Chen, Surya Bonaly, Nancy Kerrigan, Naomi Nari Nam, Angela Nikodinov, Josée Chouinard, Maria Butyrskaya, Nicole Bobek, Yuka Sato, Tara Lipinski, Lisa Bell, Meagan Duhamel, Lauren Wilson, Cynthia Phaneuf, Ann Patrice McDonough, Lucinda Ruh, Sasha Cohen, Irina Slutskaya, Irina Grigorian, Sarah Hughes, Elizabeth Manley, Jennifer Robinson, Annie Bellemare, Joannie Rochette, Michelle Currie, Susan Humphreys,Sarah Hughes, Yoshie Honda, Fumie Suguri,Tatiana Malinina,