Bryce Davison | |
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Dubé and Davison at 2008 Skate Canada
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Personal information | |
Full name | Bryce Davison |
Country represented | Canada |
Born |
Walnut Creek, California |
January 29, 1986
Home town | Huntsville, Ontario |
Residence | Varennes, Quebec |
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Former partner | Jessica Dubé (2003-2011) |
Coach | Annie Barabé Sophie Richard David Pelletier |
Former coach | Yvan Desjardins |
Choreographer | David Wilson |
Former choreographer |
Lori Nichol Pasquale Camerlengo |
Skating club | Hamilton SC |
Began skating | 1990 |
Retired | 2011 |
Season's bests |
8 (2009–2010) 5 (2008–2009) |
ISU personal best scores | |
Combined total | 192.78 2008 Worlds |
Short program | 68.66 2008 Worlds |
Free skate | 124.12 2008 Worlds |
Bryce Davison (born January 29, 1986 in Walnut Creek, California) is an American-Canadian pair skater. With former partner Jessica Dubé, he is a three-time (2007, 2009, 2010) Canadian national champion, the 2008 World bronze medalist and the 2009 Four Continents silver medalist.
They represented Canada at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics.
Davison began skating at age six. He competed with Jessie McNeil at the pre-novice and juvenile levels. They were the 2000 Canadian Juvenile national champions. He later competed with Claire Daugulis on the novice and junior levels.
Davison teamed up with Jessica Dubé in July 2003. The two had a successful junior career before moving up to the senior level in 2005–06. They placed 10th at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games and 7th at the World Championships that same season.
In the summer of 2006, Dubé suffered an injury in practice and was removed from the ice on a backboard; she had knee surgery in September. They won their first national crown in Nova Scotia at the 2007 Canadian Championships. After an on-ice accident at the 2007 Four Continents (see below), they made a comeback a month later at the World Championships, where they again finished seventh.
Dube and Davison had a breakthrough season in 2007–08. They won their first Grand Prix medals, including a gold at 2007 Skate America. They lost the national title to Anabelle Langlois and Cody Hay at the 2008 Canadian Championships, but two months later at the World Championships, they won the bronze medal after finishing second in the long program; they set personal best scores in each segment of the event and overall.