Nicky Slater
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Full name | Nicholas Mark Slater | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Other names | Nicky Slater | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Liverpool, England | 6 April 1958|||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Figure skating career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country | Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Skating club | Richmond Ice Dance & Figure Skating Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Nicholas Mark Slater (born 6 April 1958) is a former ice dancer and TV and theatrical performer.
Personal life
Slater's parents, Joan Dewhirst Slater and John Slater, competed together in ice dancing, winning silver at the 1952 and 1953 World Championships.[1] They were also World Professional champions.[citation needed] They retired to coach at Liverpool Rink then Manchester Ice Palace and finally Altrincham Ice Rink.
Slater attended
Career
Competitive career
With partner Kathryn Winter, he won the 1976 World Junior Championships.[3] When that partnership ended, he teamed up with Karen Barber. They won the bronze medal at the 1983 European Championships.[4] They represented Great Britain at the 1980 Winter Olympics, placing 12th, and at the 1984 Winter Olympics, where they placed 6th. They were British ice dance champions in 1985.
Post-competitive career
Slater has produced ice events, his first being Sport Aid at the NEC in 1986 in aid of the
He was Marketing and Communications Director of The Shaftesbury Society for five years, during which time he gained a Masters in Marketing from Bristol Business School at The University of the West of England. After this, he endeavoured to develop ice rinks in the UK for five years.[citation needed]
He has produced ice spectaculars in the US as CEO and Creative Producer with his company Adventure On Ice working in partnership with Robin Cousins and Disson Furst and Partners. Together the partnership produced:
- Improv-Ice for USA Networks (3) *The Starskates Series (8) for NBC *Skaters Tribute to shows for ESPN (2)
In 2005, he produced and starred in The Finding a Wife Tour a UK theatre show. In 2008, he created and starred in Ice Times and toured UK theatres skating with Louise Owen and Charlotte Aitken.
Slater has also contributed to Sense-National Deafblind and Rubella Association's City Ice Skate events.
Since 2006, he has focused on developing himself as a singer-songwriter and music producer.[citation needed]
Television
Since his retirement from competitive skating, Slater has worked as an 'in vision' expert and commentator on ice skating for both
Slater appeared as a judge on the
During the
Singer-songwriter, writer, entertainer
From his earliest days, Slater was involved in music through his parents' ice dancing background. From his earliest recollections, he was helping his father edit music on their Ferrograph 'Reel to Reel' tape machine for ice dance performances. Drawing on that upbringing (and over ten years of development and study across areas of songwriting, singing, instruments and music production), he composes and performs his own music.[citation needed]
End of commentary career
On 23 March 2022, Slater and Simon Reed were acting as the commentators of the international feed of the 2022 World Figure Skating Championships. After the event concluded, a hot mic recorded them referring to two-time World Champion and three-time Olympic medalist Meagan Duhamel as the "bitch from Canada", while laughing. The clip went viral, leading the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (who were employing Duhamel to do Canadian commentary) to demand a response from the International Skating Union (ISU). The ISU released a statement on social media on 24 March 2022, in which they said they were "shocked by the language used" and that there "is no place for harassing and abusive language or remarks and behavior in sport and our society." Slater and Reed were suspended by the ISU and their service provider, neither will cover any future ISU figure skating event, and an internal investigation will follow. The ISU also apologised to Duhamel.[6]
Competitive highlights
With Barber
International | |||||||
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Event | 78–79 | 79–80 | 80–81 | 81–82 | 82–83 | 83–84 | 84–85 |
Olympics | 12th | 6th | |||||
Worlds | 13th | 10th | 7th | 7th | 5th | 5th | 6th |
Europeans | 11th | 8th | 5th | 5th | 3rd | 4th | 4th |
NHK Trophy | 2nd | 1st | 1st | ||||
Skate America | 3rd | ||||||
Skate Canada | 2nd | 2nd | |||||
St. Ivel | 3rd | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | |||
National | |||||||
British Champ. | 2nd | 2nd | 1st |
With Winter
International | |
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Event | 1975–76 |
World Junior Championships | 1st |
References
- ^ "World Figure Skating Championships: Ice dance medalists" (PDF). International Skating Union. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 February 2006.
- ^ "Boys school to open for girls". Manchester Evening News. 8 May 2007. Retrieved 27 February 2008.
- ^ "World Junior Figure Skating Championships Results: Ice Dancing Medalists" (PDF). International Skating Union. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 February 2012. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
- ^ "European Figure Skating Championships Results: Ice Dancing Medalists" (PDF). International Skating Union. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 December 2013. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
- ^ "Dancing On Ice 2014: Where's Robin Cousins? Nicky Slater returns!". Telly Mix. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
- ^ "Skating union replaces commentators, apologizes for vulgar comment aimed at Canada's Duhamel". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
External links
- Official website
- Nicky Slater at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- "Skate Canada Results Book – Volume 2 – 1974 – current" (PDF). Skate Canada. Archived from the original(PDF) on 20 September 2009.