Jeffrey Buttle
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Buttle on the podium at the 2008 World Championships
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| Country represented | Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
September 1, 1982 Smooth Rock Falls, Ontario, Canada |
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| Home town | Barrie, Ontario, Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former coach | Lee Barkell, Rafael Arutyunyan, Doug Leigh, Wendy Philion | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Choreographer | David Wilson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former choreographer | Linda Garneau | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skating club | Sudbury SC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former training locations |
Barrie, Ontario Lake Arrowhead, California |
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| Retired | September 10, 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Combined total | 245.17 2008 Worlds |
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| Short program | 83.85 2008 Four Continents |
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| Free skate | 163.07 2008 Worlds |
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Jeffrey "Jeff" Buttle (born September 1, 1982) is a Canadian figure skater. He is the 2006 Winter Olympics bronze medalist, the 2008 World champion, the 2002 and 2004 Four Continents champion and the 2005–2007 Canadian champion. On March 22, 2008, Buttle became the first Canadian man since Elvis Stojko in 1997 to win the World Title. He announced his retirement from competitive skating on September 10, 2008.
Buttle was born in Smooth Rock Falls, Ontario and raised in Sudbury. During his career, he lived in Barrie, Ontario.
He attended École Don Bosco, a French-language elementary school. While Buttle's family is not French-Canadian, Buttle attended French language schools as a child and is bilingual in English and French. He studied chemical engineering at the University of Toronto part-time before taking time off to focus on his skating.
Buttle is openly gay and married Justin Harris in February 2014. Buttle currently plays ice hockey for a team in the Toronto Gay Hockey Association.
Buttle began skating at age two and competing at age six. He did competitive ballet to improve his skating. Buttle also competed in ice dancing with his elder sister, Meghan. He trained at the Mariposa School of Skating in Barrie, Ontario.
Buttle won the silver medal on the junior level at the Canadian Championships in 1998. The next year, he placed in the top ten at his first senior nationals. He rose steadily through the ranks, gaining experience on the junior level. He made his senior international debut in the 2001–2002 season, making his mark immediately by winning the silver medal at the 2001 NHK Trophy behind Takeshi Honda. At the Canadian Championships, Buttle made his first run on the podium and placed third. It earned him a trip to Korea for the Four Continents, where he won his first gold medal.
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