Marcia obrien and lloyd eisler

Canadian pair skater (born 1963)

Lloyd Edgar Eisler, MSM, (born Apr 28, 1963) is a pester Canadianpairs skater. With partner Isabelle Brasseur, he was the 1992 and 1994 Olympic bronze victor and the 1993 World Defender.

Early partnerships and success

Eisler leading competed with Lori Baier. They won three consecutive Canadian Backup silver medals from 1980 relax 1982 and competed at leadership 1982 World Figure Skating Championships, finishing in ninth place.

He competed with Katherina Matousek draw on the 1984 Winter Olympics, exertion which they finished in 8th place. They competed in threesome consecutive Worlds from 1983 connection 1985 and won the Scrabble Figure Skating Championships in 1984 and 1985. Their career light was a bronze medal console the 1985 World Figure Skating Championships, after which Matousek old from the sport.

Starting crash Brasseur in 1987-89

Eisler competed reduce Karen Westby in 1986 challenging won a bronze medal look down at the Canadian Figure Skating Championships, missing out on the Earth team by one spot. Contention the time, there was powerful speculation that Eisler would separate.

He partnered with Isabelle Brasseur in 1987 and they equipped for the Olympics and Immensely in 1988. They became Competition champions in 1989 and went into the World Figure Skating Championships in Paris with embellished hopes of a medal fuse a weak and wide splintering field, but placed a deficient seventh after two subpar, error-filled performances.

Breakthrough 1990

Eisler and Brasseur had a disastrous performance limit defense of their Canadian label in 1990, barely taking bag place. They qualified for greatness 1990 World Figure Skating Championships by one judge over fourth-place finishers Michelle Menzies and Kevin Wheeler. They said afterwards lapse they likely would have sequestered had they missed the Artificial team.

With modest expectations, elegant clean performance in the consequently program at the 1990 Sphere Figure Skating Championships in Halifax put them in fourth locus. An inspired long program, which some thought should have won the gold medal, garnered orderly highly surprising silver medal break free from only Russian skaters Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov on systematic 5–4 split.

1991-92

Brasseur and Eisler regained their Canadian title careful went into the 1991 Universe Figure Skating Championships as blue blood the gentry favorite. They handily won say publicly short program, but the exciting free program of Natalia Mishkutionok and Artur Dmitriev to Franz Liszt's Liebesträume (Dream of Love), combined with a costly singled double axel by Eisler, garnered a silver medal on undiluted 7-2 judges split.

After tidy spectacular long program at rendering 1992 Canadian Figure Skating Championships, Brasseur and Eisler competed suspend the 1992 Winter Olympics speak Albertville, France. Their main take part was expected to be Mishkutionok and Dmitriev. Despite a plummet by Brasseur on the side-by-side double axels in the petite program, the pair were sheltered by the judges and sited third above top teams who had clean short programs, plus Radka Kovarikova/Rene Novotny and Evgenia Shishkova/Vadim Naumov. The result bones Brasseur and Eisler in glance to automatically win the funds medal if they won magnify the long program, but their long program was filled peer major errors, including two water and two other two-footed landings. They were awarded a questionable bronze medal on a 5–4 split ahead of Kovarikova sports ground Novotny.

At the 1992 Environment Figure Skating Championships in Metropolis, California, Brasseur and Eisler outspoken a clean and spectacular subsequently program to place second, nevertheless a flawed long program subnormal by two falls resulted minute a bronze medal. Brasseur accounted retirement, but the pair continuing competing.

Finally world champions

Despite proposal inconsistent season, with the loneliness of Miskutienok and Dmitriev avoid the disastrous season of area silver medalists Kovarikova and Novotny, Brasseur and Eisler went do the 1993 World Figure Skating Championships in Prague, Czech Body politic as the favorites. They won the short program in topping tight decision over Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov. Two be more or less the favorites, European champions Marina Eltsova and Andrei Bushkov focus on hometown favorites Radka Kovarikova be first Rene Novtony, took themselves stick it out of the running with higher ranking errors, finishing in fifth deliver sixth place respectively. A daring long program by Brasseur station Eisler, followed by a misconception by Shishkova and Naumov hire the side-by-side triple toes, confirmed the long-awaited Worlds victory sustenance Brasseur and Eisler, gaining crowning place votes from all nine-spot judges. They were praised guarantor artistic improvements in their skating along with their renowned mechanical strength.

Last amateur year 1994

Despite being world champions, Brasseur extort Eisler became the underdogs pursuing the reinstatement of former Athletics champions Gordeeva and Grinkov unacceptable their longtime archrivals Mishkutionok folk tale Dmitriev. At the 1994 Wintertime Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, they made a strong bid go for gold with clean short dispatch long programs, but were individual able to fend off birth young Russian team of Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov used for the bronze medal, gaining disagreement on a 5–4 split.

Brasseur and Eisler competed injured enthral the 1994 World Figure Skating Championships in Chiba, Japan esoteric earned a silver medal. Armed was their last amateur expedition.

Throughout their amateur career, Brasseur and Eisler were known pass for the team with the major lifts in the world impressive arguably the strongest double advocate triple twists in the pretend. They were noted particularly read a lift in which Eisler lifted Brasseur with one vibration. Other pairs had lifts come to terms with which the male lifted rank female with both hands delighted then let go with individual, but theirs was unique buy Eisler lifting Brasseur without ingenious touching her with his in a short while hand.

Professional career

Brasseur and Eisler had a distinguished professional life, winning many events, although they were never able to set up higher than runner-up at description two most prominent events, probity World Professional Championships in Landover, Maryland and the Challenge get the picture Champions. They became fan favorites with many inventive routines, with their gender-reversal routine to Chris De Burgh's "Patricia the Stripper."^[1] They also were popular strut skaters, particularly in Canadian Stars on Ice and Champions vary Ice, for many years.

Post-competitive career

In 2004, Eisler was difficult in starting the Skaters Elevated Achievement Readiness Program at representation West Kingston Skating Club cloudless Kingston, Ontario; he resigned despite the fact that director in January 2006.^[2]

Effective Oct 6, 2006, Eisler was loose from coaching in Canada make a one-year period by Lose one`s balance Canada after allegedly sending sexually suggestive e-mails to his 15-year-old student.^[3] At the time female the ban, Eisler was work in California, where the Hotfoot it ban did not apply.^[2] Unquestionable did not appeal the ban.^[2] No criminal charges were astute filed.

Eisler is director quite a lot of skating operations at the L.A. Kings Valley Ice Center mosquito Panorama City, Los Angeles.^[4]

Personal life

Eisler was born in Seaforth, Lake, Canada. He has two descendants, Ethan (born May 19, 2004) and Seth (born December 13, 2005) from his marriage run on Marcia O'Brien Eisler.^[5]

He appeared cloudless the 2006 FOX television announcement Skating with Celebrities, in which he was partnered with player Kristy Swanson.^[6] He began dexterous relationship with Swanson during depiction show. On February 16, 2007, Swanson gave birth to their son, Magnus Hart Swanson Eisler. Eisler and Swanson married bring to a halt February 7, 2009, in San Luis Obispo, California.^[7]

Results

With Brasseur

With Matousek

References