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Christopher Dean was born on July 27, 1958 in Nottingham, United Kingdom. Christopher Dean is credited as a figure skating choreographer, ice dancer and figure skating coach. That works out to 68 years old in 2026. Recorded honors include Officer of the Order of the British Empire (2000), BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award (1984) and Member of the Order of the British Empire (1981). The listed height is 179 cm.
My Take
Christopher Dean, with Jayne Torvill, gave us Boléro at the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics, and that routine is still the gold standard for what ice dance can be, an unbroken, hypnotic four and a half minutes that earned a row of perfect sixes. I think their genius was treating skating as genuine theatre rather than athletics with music. Dean was the choreographer, the architect of those programs, and a 1994 bronze in Lillehammer proved their staying power. For an entire generation in Britain, Torvill and Dean were sport. Knighted and honored, he remains the rare figure who changed how a discipline is judged.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Christopher Dean
- Name (Japanese)
- クリストファー・ディーン
- Reading
- くりすとふぁー・でぃーん
- Born
- July 27, 1958 (age 68)
- Origin
- Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Height
- 179 cm
- Occupation
- figure skating choreographer / ice dancer / figure skating coach
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Leo / Dog
2. Background
Awards & achievements
- 2000 Officer of the Order of the British Empire
- 1984 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award
- 1981 Member of the Order of the British Empire
3. Links
4. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.
Frequently asked questions
When was Christopher Dean born?
Christopher Dean was born on July 27, 1958 and is 68 years old.
Where is Christopher Dean from?
Christopher Dean is from Nottingham, United Kingdom.
What does Christopher Dean do?
Christopher Dean works as figure skating choreographer, ice dancer, figure skating coach.
How tall is Christopher Dean?
Christopher Dean is 179 cm tall.
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