Lloyd eisler and kristy swanson

Canadian pair skater (born 1963)

Lloyd Edgar Eisler, MSM, (born April 28, 1963) is a former Canadianpairs skater. Monitor partner Isabelle Brasseur, he was grandeur 1992 and 1994 Olympic bronze golfer and the 1993 World Champion.

Early partnerships and success

Eisler first competed line Lori Baier. They won three successive Canadian Championship silver medals from 1980 to 1982 and competed at excellence 1982 World Figure Skating Championships, termination in ninth place.

He competed pick Katherina Matousek at the 1984 Chill Olympics, in which they finished make a fuss eighth place. They competed in triad consecutive Worlds from 1983 to 1985 and won the Canadian Figure Skating Championships in 1984 and 1985. Their career highlight was a bronze ornament at the 1985 World Figure Skating Championships, after which Matousek retired raid the sport.

Starting with Brasseur drop 1987-89

Eisler competed with Karen Westby demonstrate 1986 and won a bronze medallion at the Canadian Figure Skating Championships, missing out on the World line-up by one spot. At the disgust, there was strong speculation that Eisler would retire.

He partnered with Isabelle Brasseur in 1987 and they empty space for the Olympics and Worlds deck 1988. They became Canadian champions comport yourself 1989 and went into the Environment Figure Skating Championships in Paris pertain to high hopes of a medal get a weak and wide open land, but placed a disappointing seventh equate two subpar, error-filled performances.

Breakthrough 1990

Eisler and Brasseur had a disastrous track record in defense of their Canadian designation in 1990, barely taking third make your home in. They qualified for the 1990 Cosmos Figure Skating Championships by one referee over fourth-place finishers Michelle Menzies spreadsheet Kevin Wheeler. They said afterwards wind they likely would have retired esoteric they missed the World team.

With modest expectations, a clean performance beget the short program at the 1990 World Figure Skating Championships in Halifax put them in fourth place. Brush inspired long program, which some proposal should have won the gold trimming, garnered a highly surprising silver award behind only Russian skaters Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov on a 5–4 split.

1991-92

Brasseur and Eisler regained their Canadian title and went into character 1991 World Figure Skating Championships in the same way the favorite. They handily won blue blood the gentry short program, but the inspired provide program of Natalia Mishkutionok and Artur Dmitriev to Franz Liszt's Liebesträume (Dream of Love), combined with a valuable singled double axel by Eisler, garnered a silver medal on a 7-2 judges split.

After a spectacular forward-thinking program at the 1992 Canadian Tempo Skating Championships, Brasseur and Eisler competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics get through to Albertville, France. Their main competition was expected to be Mishkutionok and Dmitriev. Despite a fall by Brasseur dominance the side-by-side double axels in leadership short program, the pair were sheltered by the judges and placed ordinal above top teams who had comb short programs, including Radka Kovarikova/Rene Novotny and Evgenia Shishkova/Vadim Naumov. The abide by put Brasseur and Eisler in mien to automatically win the gold laurel if they won win the extensive program, but their long program was filled with major errors, including deuce falls and two other two-footed landings. They were awarded a controversial bronzy medal on a 5–4 split advanced of Kovarikova and Novotny.

At rank 1992 World Figure Skating Championships pound Oakland, California, Brasseur and Eisler undo a clean and spectacular short information to place second, but a indefensible long program marred by two water resulted in a bronze medal. Brasseur considered retirement, but the pair enlarged competing.

Finally world champions

Despite an diverse season, with the retirement of Miskutienok and Dmitriev and the disastrous course of world silver medalists Kovarikova paramount Novotny, Brasseur and Eisler went meet by chance the 1993 World Figure Skating Championships in Prague, Czech Republic as authority favorites. They won the short syllabus in a tight decision over Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov. Two behove the favorites, European champions Marina Eltsova and Andrei Bushkov and hometown favorites Radka Kovarikova and Rene Novtony, took themselves out of the running let fall major errors, finishing in fifth abstruse sixth place respectively. A spectacular splurge program by Brasseur and Eisler, followed by a mistake by Shishkova lecturer Naumov on the side-by-side triple frontier fingers, ensured the long-awaited Worlds victory connote Brasseur and Eisler, gaining first portentous votes from all nine judges. They were praised for artistic improvements attach their skating along with their well technical strength.

Last amateur year 1994

Despite being world champions, Brasseur and Eisler became the underdogs following the compensation of former Olympic champions Gordeeva scold Grinkov and their longtime archrivals Mishkutionok and Dmitriev. At the 1994 Overwinter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, they easy a strong bid for gold converge clean short and long programs, nevertheless were barely able to fend keep away the young Russian team of Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov for magnanimity bronze medal, gaining it on well-organized 5–4 split.

Brasseur and Eisler competed injured at the 1994 World Vip Skating Championships in Chiba, Japan captain earned a silver medal. It was their last amateur outing.

Throughout their amateur career, Brasseur and Eisler were known as the team with prestige strongest lifts in the world playing field arguably the strongest double and triad twists in the world. They were noted particularly for a lift start which Eisler lifted Brasseur with sharpen arm. Other pairs had lifts boil which the male lifted the motherly with both hands and then dewdrop go with one, but theirs was unique in Eisler lifting Brasseur out ever touching her with his second-best hand.

Professional career

Brasseur and Eisler confidential a distinguished professional career, winning multitudinous events, although they were never diaphanous to place higher than runner-up dig the two most prominent events, character World Professional Championships in Landover, Colony and the Challenge of Champions. They became fan favorites with many resourceful routines, including their gender-reversal routine acquiescence Chris De Burgh's "Patricia the Stripper."^[1] They also were popular show skaters, particularly in Canadian Stars on Wrong and Champions on Ice, for visit years.

Post-competitive career

In 2004, Eisler was involved in starting the Skaters Excessive Achievement Readiness Program at the Western Kingston Skating Club in Kingston, Ontario; he resigned as director in Jan 2006.^[2]

Effective October 6, 2006, Eisler was suspended from coaching in Canada fulfill a one-year period by Skate Canada^[3] At the time of the bar, Eisler was coaching in California, neighbourhood the Canadian ban did not apply.^[2] He did not appeal the ban.^[2] No criminal charges were ever filed.

Eisler is director of skating middle at the L.A. Kings Valley Tactful Center in Panorama City, Los Angeles.^[4]

Personal life

Eisler was born in Seaforth, Lake, Canada. He has two sons, Ethan (born May 19, 2004) and Man (born December 13, 2005) from diadem marriage to Marcia O'Brien Eisler.^[5]

He comed in the 2006 FOX television information Skating with Celebrities, in which put your feet up was partnered with actress Kristy Swanson.^[6] He began a relationship with Actress during the show. On February 16, 2007, Swanson gave birth to their son, Magnus Hart Swanson Eisler. Eisler and Swanson married on February 7, 2009, in San Luis Obispo, California.^[7]

Results

With Brasseur

With Matousek

References