Brian Pockar
Canadian figure skater
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Full name | Brian James Pockar | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1959-10-27)October 27, 1959 Calgary, Alberta | ||||||||||||||||||||
Died | April 28, 1992(1992-04-28) (aged 32) Calgary | ||||||||||||||||||||
Figure skating career | |||||||||||||||||||||
Country | Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||
Skating club | Calgary WC | ||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 1982 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Brian James Pockar (October 27, 1959 – April 28, 1992) was a Canadian figure skater. He was the 1982 World bronze medalist, a three-time Canadian national champion (1978–80), and competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics.[1] He was born and died in Calgary.
After turning pro, Pockar toured with Stars on Ice and worked as a choreographer. He died of AIDS in 1992.[2] Scott Hamilton outed Pockar as gay in Hamilton's autobiography, Landing It.[3]
Competitive highlights
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Event | 73–74 | 74–75 | 75–76 | 76–77 | 77–78 | 78–79 | 79–80 | 80–81 | 81–82 |
Olympics | 12th | ||||||||
Worlds | 14th | 10th | 13th | 9th | 8th | 3rd | |||
Skate Canada | 11th | 5th | 3rd | 2nd | |||||
Nebelhorn | 4th | ||||||||
St. Gervais | 2nd | ||||||||
International: Junior | |||||||||
Junior Worlds | 3rd | ||||||||
National | |||||||||
Canada | 3rd J | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | ||
J = Junior level |
References
- ^ "Brian Pockar". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2009-06-26.
- ^ Bondy, Filip (November 17, 1992). "FIGURE SKATING; AIDS Deaths Tear at Figure-Skating World". The New York Times. Retrieved March 15, 2008.
- ^ Hamilton, Scott; Benet, Lorenzo (1999). Landing It: My Life on and Off the Ice. Kensington Publishing. ISBN 1-57566-466-6.
- "Skate Canada Results Book - Volume 1 - 1896 - 1973" (PDF). Skate Canada. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-11-22.
- "Skate Canada Results Book - Volume 2 - 1974 - current" (PDF). Skate Canada. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-09-20.
- "Canadian National Championships Medallists" (PDF). Skate Canada. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-09-20.
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- 1905–06, 1908: Ormond B. Haycock
- 1910: Douglas H. Nelles
- 1911: Ormond B. Haycock
- 1912: Douglas H. Nelles
- 1913: Philip Chrysler
- 1914, 1920: Norman Scott
- 1921–22: Duncan Hodgson
- 1923: Melville Rogers
- 1924: John Machado
- 1925: Melville Rogers
- 1929–35: Montgomery Wilson
- 1936–37: Osborne Colson
- 1938–39: Montgomery Wilson
- 1940–41: Ralph McCreath
- 1942: Michael Kirby
- 1945: Nigel Stephens
- 1946: Ralph McCreath
- 1947: Norris Bowden
- 1948: Wallace Diestelmeyer
- 1949–50: Roger Wickson
- 1951–53: Peter Firstbrook
- 1954–58: Charles Snelling
- 1959–62: Donald Jackson
- 1963: Donald McPherson
- 1964: Charles Snelling
- 1965–67: Donald Knight
- 1968–69: Jay Humphry
- 1970: David McGillivray
- 1971–76: Toller Cranston
- 1977: Ron Shaver
- 1978–80: Brian Pockar
- 1981–88: Brian Orser
- 1989–91: Kurt Browning
- 1992: Michael Slipchuk
- 1993: Kurt Browning
- 1994: Elvis Stojko
- 1995: Sébastien Britten
- 1996–2000: Elvis Stojko
- 2001: Emanuel Sandhu
- 2002: Elvis Stojko
- 2003–04: Emanuel Sandhu
- 2005–07: Jeffrey Buttle
- 2008–14: Patrick Chan
- 2015: Nam Nguyen
- 2016–18: Patrick Chan
- 2019: Nam Nguyen
- 2020: Roman Sadovsky
- 2022–23: Keegan Messing
- 2024: Wesley Chiu
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