Eric Radford
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Duhamel and Radford in 2015
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| Country represented | Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
January 27, 1985 Winnipeg, Manitoba |
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| Home town | Balmertown, Ontario | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Montreal, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Partner | Meagan Duhamel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former partner | Anne-Marie Giroux Rachel Kirkland Sarah Burke |
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| Coach | Richard Gauthier, Bruno Marcotte, Sylvie Fullum | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former coach | Brian Orser | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Choreographer | Julie Marcotte | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skating club | CPA St. Leonard | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Began skating | 1993 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Combined total | 231.99 2016 Worlds |
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| Short program | 78.18 2016 Worlds |
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| Free skate | 153.81 2016 Worlds |
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Medal record
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Eric Radford (born January 27, 1985) is a Canadian pair skater. With partner Meagan Duhamel, he is a two-time world champion (2015, 2016), an Olympic silver medalist in the team event, a two-time Four Continents champion (2013, 2015), the 2014–15 Grand Prix Final champion, and a six-time Canadian national champion (2012–17).
Radford was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and raised in Balmertown, Ontario. He moved to Kenora at age 14, to Winnipeg and Montreal at 15, and to Toronto at 16. He studied music at York University and holds a Grade 9 Royal Conservatory of Music certificate. He plays piano and writes and composes music, and registered as a member of the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada in 2014. During the summer of 2016, Radford composed the 2016–17 free skate music for fellow Canadian skater and three-time world champion Patrick Chan.
In December 2014, Radford publicly came out as gay in an interview with the LGBT publication Outsports. In doing so, he became the first competitive figure skater ever to come out at the height of his career while still a contender for championship titles, rather than waiting until he was near or past retirement; at the 2015 World Figure Skating Championships, Radford and Duhamel's gold medal win in pairs skating made him the first openly gay figure skater ever to win a medal at that competition. He is an ambassador for the Canadian Olympic Committee's #OneTeam program to combat homophobia in sports.
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