Shae-Lynn Bourne

Shae-Lynn Bourne
Shae-Lynn Bourne with Victor Kraatz.
Personal information
Country represented	Canada
Born	(1976-01-24) January 24, 1976 (age 41) Chatham, Ontario, Canada
Residence	Toronto / South Carolina
Height	1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Former partner	Victor Kraatz Andrew Bertleff (Pairs)
Former coach	Nikolai Morozov Uschi Keszler Natalia Dubova Tatiana Tarasova Josée Picard Eric Gilles Paul Wirtz
Skating club	CPA Brossard Granite Club
Medal record Figure skating: Ice dancing Representing  Canada World Championships 2003 Washington, D.C. Ice dancing 2002 Nagano Ice dancing 1999 Helsinki Ice dancing 1998 Minneapolis Ice dancing 1997 Lausanne Ice dancing 1996 Edmonton Ice dancing Four Continents Championships 2003 Beijing Ice dancing 2001 Salt Lake City Ice dancing 1999 Halifax Ice dancing Grand Prix Final 2001–2002 Kitchener Ice dancing 1998–1999 St. Petersburg Ice dancing 1997–1998 Colorado Springs Ice dancing

Shae-Lynn Bourne, MSC (born January 24, 1976) is a Canadian ice dancer. In 2003, she and partner Victor Kraatz became the first North American ice dancers to win a World Championship. They competed at three Winter Olympic Games, placing 10th at the 1994 Winter Olympics, 4th at the 1998 Winter Olympics, and 4th at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Bourne was born on January 24, 1976 in Chatham, Ontario. She has an older brother, Chris, a younger sister, Calea and younger brother Sean. She married her skating coach Nikolai Morozov on August 12, 2005, but the marriage was short-lived, and they divorced in July 2007. She is currently married to Bohdan Turok with whom she has a son, Kai, born in June 2012, and working as a coach at the Granite Club, Toronto, Ontario.

Bourne began skating in 1983. Early in her career, she competed in pair skating with partner Andrew Bertleff. She stated that she enjoyed pairs "but I was dropped a lot, there were a lot of head injuries, and I finally said, 'No more, I'm not going to last much longer if I kept doing this.'"

Interested in switching to ice dancing, Bourne traveled to Boucherville, Quebec in 1991 after a coach, Paul Wirtz, suggested that she try out with Victor Kraatz. Although at first Kraatz did not see himself with Bourne, they skated together for a week and a week after she returned to Ontario he asked to form a partnership.

During their career, Bourne/Kraatz were coached at various times by Tatiana Tarasova, Natalia Dubova, Uschi Keszler, Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko, and Nikolai Morozov. For the 1997–98 season, their free dance was modeled after Riverdance, with footwork instruction provided by Riverdance lead dancer Colin Dunne. Bourne/Kraatz became known for their deep edges and soft knees. They were credited with perfecting and popularizing the hydroblading technique.