Jennifer ROBINSON

Canada

Single

Date of birth / Születési idõ

 2 December 1976

Place of birth / Születés helye

 Goderich, Ontario

Height / Magasság

 170 cm

Weight / Súly

 55 kg

Home town  /Lakóhely

 Barrie, Ontario

Profession / Foglalkozás

 Athlete, part-time student

Hobbies / Hobbi

 reading, cooking

Start skating / Korcsolyázás kezdete

 1986

Club

 Riverside FSC

 

Coach / Edzõ

 Michelle Leigh, Doug Leigh

Choreographer / Koreográfus

 Lori Nichol

Practice low season / Gyakorlás holtszezonban (h/week)

 25 at Mariposa School of Skating, Barrie

Practice high season / Gyakorlás fõszezonban  (h/week)

 30 at Mariposa School of Skating, Barrie

 

Music Short Program as of 2000/2001 season

 Moon Ghosts for Aldous Huxley by M. Hoppe

Music Free Skating as of 2000/2001 season

 An Irish Symphony by H. Harty

Music Short Program as of 2002/2003 season

 Symphonie Moderne  by Max Steiner

Music Free Skating as of 2002/2003 season

 Suite Populaire Espagnole pour Violin et Piano (Manuel de Falla)

Music Short Program as of 2003/2004 season

 Tangosain  by Luis Bacalov / Welcome to Cuba  by David Arnold

Music Free Skating as of 2003/2004 season

 Prelude a L'Apres - Midi d'un faune   by Claude Debussy

Results / Eredmények

 

Olympic Games
 Olimpia 

World Champs
 Világbajnokság

Four Continent
 Négy Kontinens

World Junior
Junior Világbajnokság

National Champs
 Nemzeti Bajnokság

1994

 

 

 

10

1 J

1995

 

19

 

 

2

1996

 

21

 

 

1

1997

 

 

 

 

3

1998

 

 

 

 

3

1999

 

18 

7 

 

1

2000

 

8 

6 

 

1

2001

 

15 

8 

 

1

2002

7

9

4 

 

1

2003

 

9

5

 

1

2004

 

14

5

 

 

International Competition:

 1998

 Skate America, Detroit

8

 1998

 Sparkassen Cup on Ice, Gelsenkirchen

5

 1998

 Nebelhorn Trophy, Oberstdorf

4

 1999

 Skate Canada, Saint John, NB

3

 1999

 Trophee Lalique, Paris

4

 1999

 Sears Open, Mississauga

2

 2000

 Skate Canada, Mississauga

4

 2000

 Trophée Lalique, Paris

5

 2001

 Skate America, Colorado Springs

7

 2001

 Cup of Russia, St. Petersburg

5

 2002

 MasterCard Skate Canada Int., Quebec

4

 2002

 Bofrost Cup on Ice, Gelsenkirchen

4

 2002

 Campbells FS Classic, Daytona, Fl.

6

 2002

 Sears Open

2

 2003

 Skate Canada Int., Mississauga

5

 2003

 Cup of China, Beijing

9

Robinson got hooked by figure skating when she watched an Ice Capades Show at age eight. The following day she signed up for lessons. Her brother Jason took up ice hockey and became an NHL-hockey player. Robinson got married to figure skating coach Shane Dennison in September 2002. The athlete is involved in many charities, such as the Tim Hortons Camp Day, Alzheimers Society, and Heart and Stroke Foundation. Although currently a full-time athlete, she hopes to attend Ryerson University to study broadcasting in the near future. 

International Skating Union, Chemin de Primerose 2, CH - 1007 Lausanne 08.11.2003

Highs and lows

Jennifer Robinson has been competing at senior-level events since 1995. She placed a career-best eighth at the 2000 World Championships in Nice, France. It was also the best result for a Canadian ladies' figure skater at a World Championships or Olympic Winter Games since Josee Chouinard placed fifth at the 1994 World Championships in Chiba, Japan. Robinson struggled, however, at the 2001 World Championships, held in front of a home crowd in Vancouver, Canada. She finished 15th after touching the ice with her hands three times during her free skate. Robinson says the problem was not the hometown pressure, but "the pressure I put on myself to improve my ranking from the previous year" and to clinch two ladies' Olympic berths for Canada. Her country needed to have a skater finish in the top 12 to earn two spots for the Salt Lake Games. One spot is still an improvement for Canada, which did not have a an athlete compete in ladies' figure skating in Nagano.

Training and music

Entering the 2001-2002 season, Robinson had won four Canadian senior national titles, including three in a row from 1999-2001. She placed 10th at the World Junior Championships in 1994. Robinson is coached by Michelle and Doug Leigh at the Mariposa School of Skating in Barrie, Canada. Noted Japanese men's skater Takeshi Honda also trains at that rink. Robinson's choreographer is Lori Nichol. The music for her Olympic-year short program is Alfred Newman's "Street Scene," and the theme of the program is a young woman who discovers flirting. It's about "what is flirting and should I flirt?" Robinson explains. "Street Scene" was the first piece of music Robinson listened to for her short program. Nichol was wary of picking music so quickly, but Robinson insisted, "No, this is it." In her free skate, Robinson performs to Franz Liszt's "Liebestraum," depicting a bride as she walks down the aisle. She says that Nichol was reliving her own experience of walking down the aisle as she choreographed the program. Robinson wears a "bridal" white costume and says, "It's not just me as a bride. It's any bride and what she's feeling and thinking." Her most difficult skill is a triple Salchow-triple loop combination, the second element in her free skate.

Past and future

Robinson was hooked on figure skating at age 8, when she watched an Ice Capades show. She signed up for lessons the next day. She wants to attend a broadcast journalism school in Toronto after her skating career is over.

Official Olympic Site 2002

Pictures / Képek