Brian Orser

Brian Orser is one of those figures in figure skating who has genuinely lived the sport across multiple lifetimes — first as a competitor, then as one of the most respected coaches on the planet. I've always found his story quietly compelling: a kid from Belleville, Ontario who climbed all the way to back-to-back Olympic silver medals in 1984 and 1988, plus the 1987 World Championship title. He narrowly missed Olympic gold twice, which would've crushed lesser athletes, but Orser turned that near-miss energy into a coaching career that's frankly more decorated than most champions' full resumes. Yuzuru Hanyu, Yuna Kim — he coached both to Olympic gold. That's not luck; that's a gift for reading skaters and coaxing out their best. An Officer of the Order of Canada and a Canada's Sports Hall of Fame inductee, the man's legacy on ice is just undeniable.

Name (English)

Brian Orser

Name (Japanese)

ブライアン・オーサー

Reading

ぶらいあん・おーさー

Born

December 18, 1961 (age 64)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Ox

Origin

Belleville, Ontario, Canada

Height

168 cm

Occupation

figure skater / figure skating coach / actor

Awards & achievements

• Officer of the Order of Canada
• Order of Ontario
• Canada's Sports Hall of Fame
• Ontario Sports Hall of Fame

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.canadianexcellence.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/brianorser/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC

Tags

• Ontario
• figure skater
• figure skating coach
• actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.