Hamar, 18 February 1994. Jayne TORVILL and Christopher DEAN of Great-Britain in action during the compulsory section of the ice dance competition at the XVII Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer. Credit : Getty Images/Phil ColeBorn: 7 October 1957
Birthplace: Nottingham (Great Britain)
Nationality: Great Britain
Sport: Skating
ATTENDANCE AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES
Lake Placid 1980
Sarajevo 1984
Lillehammer 1994
AWARDS
Olympic medals:
Gold: 1
Bronze: 1
Other results:
World Championships
Gold: 4 (81, 82, 83, 84)
Artistic Perfection
The 1984 Sarajevo Games was one at the few times that the Olympic ice dancing competition was not won by a Soviet or Russian couple. Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean of Nottingham, England, mesmerized the audience with their interpretation of Maurice Ravel's Bolero.
The judges awarded them 12 scores of 6.0 out of 18 marks, including across-the-board perfect scores for artistic impression. The couple managed to present their 4-minute 28-second dance despite the fact that the time limit was 4 minutes 10 seconds by moving their bodies to the music for 18 seconds before they started skating. Torvill and Dean returned to the Olympics in 1994 and placed third.
