Elvis Stojko

Elvis Stojko
Stojko at Canada House during the 2002 Winter Olympics
Personal information
Country represented	Canada
Born	(1972-03-22) March 22, 1972 (age 44) Newmarket, Ontario
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Former coach	Uschi Keszler, Doug Leigh
Skating club	Richmond Hill FSC
Retired	2006
Medal record Representing  Canada Figure skating: Men's singles Olympic Games 1994 Lillehammer Singles 1998 Nagano Singles World Championships 1994 Chiba Singles 1995 Birmingham Singles 1997 Lausanne Singles 1993 Prague Singles 2000 Nice Singles 1992 Oakland Singles Four Continents Championships 2000 Osaka Singles 1999 Halifax Singles Grand Prix Final 1996–97 Hamilton Singles 1995–96 Paris Singles 1997–98 Munich Singles 1999–2000 Lyon Singles

Elvis Stojko, MSC, MSM (born March 22, 1972) is a Canadian figure skater. He is a three-time World champion (1994, 1995, 1997), two-time Olympic silver medalist (1994, 1998), and seven-time Canadian champion (1994, 1996–2000, and 2002).

Stojko was born in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada to a Hungarian mother and Slovenian father and was named after Elvis Presley, of whom his parents were fans. His father arrived in Canada on a boat in 1955 and his mother, Irenee, fled from the Soviet invasion in 1956. Stojko grew up in Richmond Hill, Ontario.

Stojko competed in the 2005 WKA Canadian Championships and placed first in the Chinese martial arts division. He has been involved with Ronald McDonald Children's Charities in Canada. He settled in Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico in 2001. On June 20, 2010, he married Mexican figure skater Gladys Orozco in Las Vegas. They resided in Ajijic until June 2014, when they relocated to Toronto.

Stojko began skating at the age of four and won his first trophy when he was six.

At the 1991 World Championships, Stojko became the first person to land a quadruple-double jump combination. He later said he had studied VHS tapes of Kurt Browning, Brian Boitano, Alexander Fadeyev, and Jozef Sabovčík to help him master the quad.