Tracey Wainman
| Tracey Wainman | |
|---|---|
| Personal information | |
| Country represented | Canada |
| Born | January 2, 1968 |
| Former coach |
Ellen Burka Doug Leigh |
| Skating club | Toronto Cricket, Skating, and Curling Club |
| Former training locations |
Toronto Orillia |
| Retired | 1986 |
Tracey Wainman (born January 2, 1968) is a Canadian former competitive figure skater. She is the 1981 Skate Canada International champion and a two-time Canadian national champion (1981 and 1986).
Early in her career, Tracey Wainman was coached by Ellen Burka at the Toronto Cricket, Skating, and Curling Club. Her skating-related expenses were about $30,000 a year.
Wainman first came to international prominence in 1980. At the age of 12, she won her first senior national medal, taking bronze at the 1980 Canadian Championships behind Heather Kemkaran and Janet Morrissey. Kemkaran received Canada's sole ladies' berth to the 1980 Olympics but Wainman was controversially selected for the World Championships instead of Kemkaran or Morrissey. At that time, David Dore, the head of the Canadian Figure Skating Association (CFSA), and Canadian television were heavily promoting Wainman as a future champion.
At the 1980 World Championships in Dortmund, she finished 14th overall, having placed 21st in the compulsory figures, 17th in the short program and 10th in the free skate. Howard Bass of The Daily Telegraph wrote, "Tracey steals the show", and predicted she would win the 1984 Olympic title. In a 2006 interview, Wainman stated, "I was so excited to be there, skating with my idols, all these stars I'd seen on TV. I spent the whole week running around with an autograph book." The chatter at her skating club in Toronto, however, was sometimes harsh. Wainman recalled, "Kids said that I was taking drugs to stunt my growth, that I was secretly 27. The best one was that my parents had doctored my birth certificate and locked me in a room to prevent me from growing."
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