Craig Buntin
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Duhamel and Buntin in 2008
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| Full name | Craig Buntin | |||||||||||||||
| Country represented |
 Canada
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| Born |
May 27, 1980 North Vancouver, British Columbia |
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| Home town | St-Leonard, Quebec | |||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||
| Former partner |
Meagan Duhamel Valérie Marcoux Elizabeth Putnam Virginia Toombs Marie Laurier Chantal Poirier Angela Kang Chantal Chailler Sarah Robinson |
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| Former coach | Richard Gauthier Manon Perron Bruno Marcotte Sylvie Fullum Paul Wirtz Jamie McGrigor Shannon Allison Karen Bond |
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| Former choreographer | Julie Marcotte | |||||||||||||||
| Skating club | CPA St. Leonard | |||||||||||||||
| Retired | July 2010 | |||||||||||||||
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| Combined total | 169.61 2008 Worlds |
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| Short program | 62.08 2009 Four Continents |
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| Free skate | 109.60 2008 Worlds |
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Craig Buntin (born May 27, 1980 in North Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian pair skater. With former partner Meagan Duhamel, he is the 2009 Canadian silver medalist, the 2008 & 2010 Canadian bronze medalist, and the 2010 Four Continents bronze medalist. With Valérie Marcoux, he represented Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics, where they placed 11th.
With partner Chantal Poirier, Buntin is the 2000 Canadian junior national champion. He teamed up with Valérie Marcoux in 2002 and together they are the 2004-2006 Canadian national champion. They split in early 2007 when Valérie Marcoux decided to retire from competition.
In June 2007, Buntin teamed up with Meagan Duhamel. At their first competition together, the 2007 Nebelhorn Trophy, they won the silver medal. In January 2008, the pair won the bronze medal at the Canadian Nationals but during the exhibition Buntin injured his shoulder, with which he had previous problems, as a result of a timing issue. They missed the Four Continents but competed at the 2008 World Championships in Sweden on March 19, 2008, despite the shoulder still being a problem, and finished 6th. However, their participation aggravated Buntin's injury, tearing the rotator cuff, the labrum and three tendons; he had surgery in April and the recovery took seven to eight months. They could not practice lifts until two weeks before 2008 Skate America so they worked on adding variations to their elements, such as a spread eagle entrance into a lift and a death spiral with the opposite hand. In November 2008, during the long program at the Trophée Eric Bompard, Duhamel accidentally sliced Buntin's hand a minute into the program on a move right after their side-by-side toe loop jumps and blood dripped on the ice; the pair stopped to get his hand bandaged and resumed the program to win the bronze medal. Duhamel and Buntin were the first pair to successfully land a throw triple lutz in competition.
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