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Dylan Moscovitch

Dylan Moscovitch
Kirsten Moore-Towers Dylan Moscovitch 2010 Skate America.jpg
Moore-Towers and Moscovitch in 2010
Personal information
Full name Dylan David Moscovitch
Country represented Canada
Born (1984-09-23) September 23, 1984 (age 32)
Toronto, Ontario
Residence Toronto
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Partner Lubov Ilyushechkina
Former partner Kirsten Moore-Towers, Kyra Moscovitch
Coach Lee Barkell, Bryce Davison, Tracy Wilson
Former coach Kristy Sargeant-Wirtz, Kris Wirtz
Choreographer David Wilson, Marie-France Dubreuil, Sandra Bezic
Former choreographer Mark Pillay
Skating club Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club
Former skating club Kitchener-Waterloo SC
Began skating 1987
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 199.52
2016 Worlds
Short program 71.28
2016 Cup of China
Free skate 131.35
2016 Worlds

Dylan David Moscovitch (born 23 September 1984) is a Canadian pair skater who competes with Lubov Ilyushechkina. They are two-time Canadian national medalists.

With former partner Kirsten Moore-Towers, he is the 2013 Four Continents silver medalist, 2014 Olympic team event silver medalist, and 2011 Canadian national champion.

Dylan David Moscovitch was born 23 September 1984 in Toronto, Ontario. He is Jewish. His mother is a midwife from South Africa, his father is an engineer designer from Montreal, and one of his grandfathers is from Romania. He has two younger sisters, Natasha and Kyra, and a younger brother, Mischa. He teaches Krav Maga.

Moscovitch first stepped onto the ice at the age of thirteen months, at an outdoor rink, and then took lessons at the West Toronto Skating Club. Early in his career, he was coached by Paul Wirtz at the Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club.

Moscovitch began pair skating in June 2003, partnering his nine-year-old sister, Kyra. He also continued to compete in singles. Paul Wirtz and assistant coaches Kris Wirtz and Kristy Sargeant-Wirtz worked with the Moscovitches until January 2006, when the pair joined Lee Barkell in Barrie, Ontario. Kyra Moscovitch retired from competition after being diagnosed with scoliosis in October 2008.

In February 2009, Moscovitch teamed up with Kirsten Moore-Towers, who had trained at the same rink for several years.Kris Wirtz and Kristy Sargeant-Wirtz coached the pair at the Kitchener-Waterloo Skating Club in Waterloo, Ontario.


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