Jennifer Robinson | |
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Robinson skates in 2004.
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Personal information | |
Country represented | Canada |
Born |
Goderich, Ontario |
December 2, 1976
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
Former coach | Michelle Leigh |
Former choreographer | Lori Nichol |
Skating club | Riverside Figure Skating Club |
Began skating | 1986 |
Retired | 2004 |
ISU personal best scores | |
Combined total | 144.89 2003 Skate Canada |
Short program | 47.78 2003 Skate Canada |
Free skate | 97.11 2003 Skate Canada |
Jennifer Robinson (born December 2, 1976) is a Canadian former competitive figure skater. She is a six-time national champion and finished 7th at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Robinson was born December 2, 1976 in Goderich, Ontario. She is the niece of NHL hockey player Gaston Gingras.
Robinson won six Canadian national titles. She placed as high as 8th at the World Championships (2000) and as high as 4th at the Four Continents Championships (2002). She won one Grand Prix medal, bronze, at the 1999 Skate Canada International. She finished 7th at the 2002 Olympics and retired from competition in 2004. She then skated with Stars on Ice. Robinson was one of five stunt doubles for the main character, Casey (played by Michelle Trachtenberg) in the Walt Disney Pictures's 2005 film Ice Princess.
On July 31 and August 7, 2004, Robinson made her radio-hosting debut by hosting a Saturday night retro show on CIQB-FM in Barrie, Ontario, under the direction of station program director Darren Stevens. She also hosted a dinner hour news show called First Local for the Simcoe County, Ontario public access Rogers Cable station. Robinson appears occasionally on the sports talk show Off the Record with Michael Landsberg. She was a commentator at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia for CTV along with Rod Black and Victor Kraatz during the Women's Figure Skating and Ice Dancing competitions.