Torville and Dean

Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean
Torvill and Dean on the Dancing on Ice tour in Manchester, 2011
Personal information
Country represented	United Kingdom
Born	Nottingham
Former coach	Betty Callaway Janet Sawbridge
Retired	1984, 1994 (amateur), 1998 (professional)
Medal record Figure skating: ice dancing Representing  Great Britain Olympic Games 1984 Sarajevo Ice dancing 1994 Lillehammer Ice dancing World Championships 1981 Hartford Ice dancing 1982 Copenhagen Ice dancing 1983 Helsinki Ice dancing 1984 Ottawa Ice dancing European Championships 1981 Innsbruck Ice dancing 1982 Lyon Ice dancing 1984 Budapest Ice dancing 1994 Copenhagen Ice dancing British Figure Skating Championships 1977 Nottingham Ice dancing 1978 Nottingham Ice dancing 1979 Nottingham Ice dancing 1980 Nottingham Ice dancing 1981 Nottingham Ice dancing 1982 Nottingham Ice dancing 1983 Nottingham Ice dancing 1994 Sheffield Ice dancing

Torvill and Dean (Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean) are British ice dancers and former British, European, Olympic and World champions. At the Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics the pair won gold and became the highest scoring figure skaters of all time (for a single programme) receiving twelve perfect 6.0s and six 5.9s which included artistic impression scores of 6.0 from every judge, after skating to Maurice Ravel's Boléro. Their performance was watched by a British television audience of more than 24 million people. The pair turned professional following the 1984 World Championships, regaining amateur status briefly ten years later in 1994 to compete in the Olympics once again. The pair retired from competitive skating for good in 1998 when they toured one last time with their own show, Ice Adventures, before rejoining Stars on Ice for one more season. Their final routine was performed to Paul Simon's "Still Crazy After All These Years", a routine they had devised a few years earlier for competition. Although remaining close friends, the pair did not skate together again until they were enticed out of retirement to take part in ITV's Dancing on Ice.

Both are from Nottingham, England, where the local National Ice Centre is accessed through a public area known as Bolero Square, in honour of the pair's Olympic achievements. There is also a housing estate in the Wollaton area of the city with a street named 'Torvill Drive' and another named 'Dean Close' which is located just off Torvill Drive, with many of the surrounding roads named after coaches and dances associated with the pair. In a UK poll conducted by Channel 4 in 2002, the British public voted Torvill and Dean's historic gold-medal-winning performance at the 1984 Winter Olympics as Number 8 in the list of the 100 Greatest Sporting Moments.