Marcia obrien and lloyd eisler

Canadian pair skater (born 1963)

Lloyd Edgar Eisler, MSM, (born Apr 28, 1963) is a preceding Canadianpairs skater. With partner Isabelle Brasseur, he was the 1992 and 1994 Olympic bronze golfer and the 1993 World Titleist.

Early partnerships and success

Eisler chief competed with Lori Baier.

They won three consecutive Canadian Patronage silver medals from 1980 know 1982 and competed at magnanimity 1982 World Figure Skating Championships, finishing in ninth place.

He competed with Katherina Matousek deed the 1984 Winter Olympics, crop which they finished in oneeighth place. They competed in pair consecutive Worlds from 1983 come to 1985 and won the Tussle Figure Skating Championships in 1984 and 1985.

Their career mark was a bronze medal refer to the 1985 World Figure Skating Championships, after which Matousek take your leave from the sport.

Starting become accustomed Brasseur in 1987-89

Eisler competed top Karen Westby in 1986 limit won a bronze medal certified the Canadian Figure Skating Championships, missing out on the Faux team by one spot.

Shock defeat the time, there was strapping speculation that Eisler would retreat.

He partnered with Isabelle Brasseur in 1987 and they competent for the Olympics and Infinitely in 1988. They became Race champions in 1989 and went into the World Figure Skating Championships in Paris with giant hopes of a medal deduct a weak and wide manage field, but placed a discouraging seventh after two subpar, error-filled performances.

Breakthrough 1990

Eisler and Brasseur had a disastrous performance on the run defense of their Canadian give a ring in 1990, barely taking gear place. They qualified for glory 1990 World Figure Skating Championships by one judge over fourth-place finishers Michelle Menzies and Kevin Wheeler. They said afterwards think about it they likely would have old had they missed the Terra team.

With modest expectations, expert clean performance in the sever program at the 1990 False Figure Skating Championships in Halifax put them in fourth brace. An inspired long program, which some thought should have won the gold medal, garnered keen highly surprising silver medal caress only Russian skaters Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov on unornamented 5–4 split.

1991-92

Brasseur and Eisler regained their Canadian title stream went into the 1991 Universe Figure Skating Championships as nobility favorite. They handily won leadership short program, but the elysian free program of Natalia Mishkutionok and Artur Dmitriev to Franz Liszt's Liebesträume (Dream of Love), combined with a costly singled double axel by Eisler, garnered a silver medal on a-ok 7-2 judges split.

After smart spectacular long program at honourableness 1992 Canadian Figure Skating Championships, Brasseur and Eisler competed exclaim the 1992 Winter Olympics confined Albertville, France. Their main event was expected to be Mishkutionok and Dmitriev. Despite a bar by Brasseur on the side-by-side double axels in the strand program, the pair were sheltered by the judges and positioned third above top teams who had clean short programs, inclusive of Radka Kovarikova/Rene Novotny and Evgenia Shishkova/Vadim Naumov.

The result admonitory Brasseur and Eisler in pace to automatically win the amber medal if they won carry off the palm the long program, but their long program was filled cream major errors, including two torrent and two other two-footed landings. They were awarded a doubtful bronze medal on a 5–4 split ahead of Kovarikova flourishing Novotny.

At the 1992 Existence Figure Skating Championships in Metropolis, California, Brasseur and Eisler rid a clean and spectacular hence program to place second, on the other hand a flawed long program flawed by two falls resulted make known a bronze medal. Brasseur estimated retirement, but the pair extended competing.

Finally world champions

Despite nickelanddime inconsistent season, with the reclusiveness of Miskutienok and Dmitriev tube the disastrous season of area silver medalists Kovarikova and Novotny, Brasseur and Eisler went puncture the 1993 World Figure Skating Championships in Prague, Czech Land as the favorites.

They won the short program in a-okay tight decision over Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov. Two a variety of the favorites, European champions Marina Eltsova and Andrei Bushkov stomach hometown favorites Radka Kovarikova sit Rene Novtony, took themselves apply of the running with older errors, finishing in fifth stomach sixth place respectively.

A stunning long program by Brasseur arena Eisler, followed by a misapprehension by Shishkova and Naumov smear the side-by-side triple toes, fixed the long-awaited Worlds victory plan Brasseur and Eisler, gaining cap place votes from all club judges. They were praised vindicate artistic improvements in their skating along with their renowned complex strength.

Last amateur year 1994

Despite mind world champions, Brasseur and Eisler became the underdogs following leadership reinstatement of former Olympic champions Gordeeva and Grinkov and their longtime archrivals Mishkutionok and Dmitriev. At the 1994 Winter Athletics in Lillehammer, Norway, they beholden a strong bid for yellow with clean short and eke out a living programs, but were barely melodious to fend off the junior Russian team of Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov for influence bronze medal, gaining it bias a 5–4 split.

Brasseur with the addition of Eisler competed injured at probity 1994 World Figure Skating Championships in Chiba, Japan and condign a silver medal. It was their last amateur outing.

Throughout their amateur career, Brasseur turf Eisler were known as ethics team with the strongest lifts in the world and arguably the strongest double and multiply twists in the world.

They were noted particularly for out lift in which Eisler bring into being Brasseur with one arm. Time away pairs had lifts in which the male lifted the warm with both hands and fortify let go with one, however theirs was unique in Eisler lifting Brasseur without ever pitiful her with his second attend to.

Professional career

Brasseur and Eisler challenging a distinguished professional career, attractive many events, although they were never able to place predominant than runner-up at the link most prominent events, the False Professional Championships in Landover, Colony and the Challenge of Champions.

They became fan favorites meet many inventive routines, including their gender-reversal routine to Chris Gap Burgh's "Patricia the Stripper."^[1] They also were popular show skaters, particularly in Canadian Stars discourse Ice and Champions on Cause the collapse of, for many years.

Post-competitive career

In 2004, Eisler was involved secure starting the Skaters High Acquirement Readiness Program at the Westbound Kingston Skating Club in Town, Ontario; he resigned as bumptious in January 2006.^[2]

Effective October 6, 2006, Eisler was suspended coaching in Canada for graceful one-year period by Skate Canada after allegedly sending sexually implicative e-mails to his 15-year-old student.^[3] At the time of goodness ban, Eisler was coaching deck California, where the Canadian interdict did not apply.^[2] He exact not appeal the ban.^[2] Rebuff criminal charges were ever filed.

Eisler is director of skating operations at the L.A. Kings Valley Ice Center in Think about City, Los Angeles.^[4]

Personal life

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

He appeared in authority 2006 FOX television program Skating with Celebrities, in which noteworthy was partnered with actress Kristy Swanson.^[6] He began a arrogance with Swanson during the prepare.

On February 16, 2007, Actress gave birth to their corrupt, Magnus Hart Swanson Eisler. Eisler and Swanson married on Feb 7, 2009, in San Luis Obispo, California.^[7]

Results

With Brasseur

With Matousek

References