Joseph Buckland

Joseph Buckland
Smart/Buckland in 2012
Personal information
Country represented	United Kingdom
Born	(1992-10-27) 27 October 1992 (age 24) Nottingham, England
Home town	Nottingham, England
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Partner	Robynne Tweedale
Former partner	Molly Lanaghan, Olivia Smart, Danielle Bennett, Georgia Robinson
Coach	Evgeni Platov Philip Askew
Former coach	Neil Chilcott
Choreographer	Philip Askew
Skating club	National Ice Centre Nottingham
Training locations	New Jersey Nottingham Sheffield
Began skating	2003
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	121.01 2014 Junior Worlds
Short dance	49.28 2014 Junior Worlds
Free dance	71.73 2014 Junior Worlds

Joseph Buckland (born 27 October 1992) is an English ice dancer. With former partner Olivia Smart, he is a three-time British national junior champion (2012–14) and competed at three World Junior Championships, reaching the top ten in 2014.

Joseph Buckland was born in Nottingham, England. He is the younger brother of Nicholas Buckland, who also competes in ice dancing.

Buckland teamed up with his first partner, Georgia Robinson, at age 15. In 2008, he was diagnosed with two stress fractures in his spine, keeping him off the ice for six months. He skated with Danielle Bennett in the 2009–10 season. The two placed 15th at their sole ISU Junior Grand Prix event, in Turkey, and became the British national silver medalists on the junior level.

Buckland began skating with Olivia Smart in 2010. They made their JGP debut in autumn 2011, ranking 13th in Austria and 12th in Estonia. They came in 17th at their first World Junior Championships, held in Minsk in March 2012. In the 2012–13 season, the duo missed the JGP series and finished 22nd at the 2013 World Junior Championships in Milan.

In 2013–14, Smart/Buckland placed seventh at both of their JGP assignments, Poland and the Czech Republic, and finished 10th at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Smart/Buckland moved up to the senior level in the 2014–15 season. In October 2014, they placed fourth at the Ondrej Nepela Trophy, an ISU Challenger Series event. In November, they won silver medals at the International Cup of Nice and NRW Trophy before taking the British national title in the absence of Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland. Smart/Buckland withdrew from the 2015 European Championships before the short dance, Buckland having fallen ill with gastroenteritis. The duo then went on to place 27th at the 2015 World Championships in Shanghai, China. They split in June 2015.