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Elvis Stojko
Stojko at Canada House during the 2002 Winter Olympics
Born	(1972-03-22)March 22, 1972 (age 52) Newmarket, Ontario
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Figure skating career
Country	Canada
Skating club	Richmond Hill FSC
Retired	2006
Medal record Figure skating:Men's singles Representing Canada Olympic Games 1994 Lillehammer Singles 1998 Nagano Singles World Championships 1994 Chiba Singles 1995 Birmingham Singles 1997 Lausanne Singles 1993 Prague Singles 2000 Nice Singles 1992 Oakland Singles Four Continents Championships 2000 Osaka Singles 1999 Halifax Singles Grand Prix Final 1996–97 Hamilton Singles 1995–96 Paris Singles 1997–98 Munich Singles 1999–2000 Lyon Singles

Elvis Stojko,MSC MSM (born March 22, 1972) is a Canadianfigure skater. He was a three-timeWorld champion (1994, 1995, 1997), two-timeOlympic silver medallist (1994, 1998), and seven-timeCanadian champion (1994, 1996–2000, and 2002).

Stojko was born inNewmarket,Ontario,Canada to aHungarian mother andSlovenian father and was named afterElvis Presley, of whom his parents were fans.^[1] His father arrived in Canada on a boat in 1955 and his mother, Irene (Hungarian:Irén), fled theSoviet invasion ofHungary in 1956. Stojko grew up inRichmond Hill, Ontario.^[2] There is a hockey arena named after him in Richmond Hill.^[3]

Stojko competed in the 2005 WKA Canadian Championships and placed first in theChinese martial arts division.^[4] He has been involved with Ronald McDonald Children's Charities in Canada.^{[citation needed]} He settled inAjijic, Jalisco, Mexico in 2001.^[5] On June 20, 2010, he married Mexican figure skater Gladys Orozco in Las Vegas.^[6] They resided in Ajijic^[7] until June 2014, when they relocated toToronto.^[8] They now live on 140 acres near Bowmanville.^[9]

On October 3, 2021, Stojko was revealed to have been named in thePandora Papers by the CBC.^[10]

Stojko began skating at the age of four and won his first trophy when he was eleven.

At the1991 World Championships, Stojko became the first person to land a quadruple-doublejump combination. He later said he had studied VHS tapes ofKurt Browning,Brian Boitano,Alexander Fadeyev, andJozef Sabovčík to help him master the quad.^[11]

At the1992 Winter Olympics inAlbertville,^[12] he finished 7th despite skating a technically strong routine, but a month later he made his first appearance on a major international podium when he placed third at the1992 World Championships behind winnerViktor Petrenko andKurt Browning. In 1993 at the World Figure Skating Championships he finished second, once again behind Kurt Browning.

At the 1994 Canadian Championships in Edmonton, Stojko defeatedKurt Browning in the free skate to win his first national title. At the1994 Winter Olympics in Norway at theHamar Olympic Amphitheatre, he skated well enough in the short program to place second, putting him in good position heading into the free skate, after three of the pre-Olympic favourites (Brian Boitano,Viktor Petrenko &Kurt Browning) had disappointing short programs. Stojko had a strong performance in the free skate, despite popping a planned triple axel combination (which he later replaced by doing another triple Axel combination spontaneously) and won the silver medal. Stojko entered the 1994 World Championships inChiba, Japan, as the favourite and won his first world championship with a performance that included another quadruple jump.

For Stojko's free skating program this season, he used music from the soundtrack ofDragon, the 1993 film biography aboutBruce Lee. He was able to demonstrate his interest inkarate andtai chi by incorporating movements from his extensive study of the disciplines into the program.^[13]

Stojko sustained a serious ankle injury during practice for the 1995 Canadian Championships, but was determined to compete anyway. He began his short program but was not able to complete it due to the injury, and was awarded abye to the1995 World Championships. His 1995 World Championship skate is regarded as one of his most impressive competitive outings because he completed his full routine despite his still-unhealed injury. Although in second place after the short programme behind American Todd Eldredge, Stojko won the free skate – and his second world championship – with a performance that included a triple lutz-triple toe loop combination in the closing seconds of his programme.

At the1996 World Championships inEdmonton,Alberta, Stojko fell on his triple axel combo jump, leaving him in seventh place after the short programme. In the free programme he included a quadruple jump combination (the only one in the competition) and moved him all the way up to fourth, just off the podium behind American Rudy Galindo, who won the bronze. His quadruple toe loop–triple toe loop was the first ever performed by a skater in a major competition.

Stojko won the1996–97 Champions Series Final (Grand Prix Final) inHamilton, Ontario, skating to the movie soundtrack of "Dragon Heart". Two other skaters also landed quad jumps during the free skate (Ilia Kulik andAlexei Urmanov), but not in combination as Stojko did.

At the1997 World Championships, he again had a strong short programme and placed fourth going into the free. Approximately halfway through the free skate, Alexei Urmanov, leader after the short programme, withdrew from the event with an injury, while Ilia Kulik, in third, had a performance that put him out of contention. Stojko then took the ice and landed his quad-triple combination to earn two perfect scores of 6.0 and another world title.

Stojko entered the1998 Winter Olympics inNagano, Japan as the heavy favorite and was expected to become the first Canadian man to win an Olympic gold medal. He did not disclose to the media that he had suffered agroin injury and was also recovering from a flu that had struck many other athletes during the Games. He was unable to take painkillers due to the possibility of failing his drug test. He later stated in an interview that he was already feeling stiff and sore during the warm-up prior to the long program, and therefore downgraded his planned quadruple toe loop to a triple, likely costing him a chance at gold. Later in the programme, on the landing of a triple axel, Stojko aggravated the injury even further, saying he "felt something snap." He still managed to successfully complete four more triples after that point, and won the silver medal.

In February 1998, Stojko published a book,Heart and Soul, about his career.

Stojko finished fourth in the1999 World Championships. After the 1998–99 season, Stojko changed coaches from Doug Leigh toUschi Keszler andTim Wood.^[14] He won silver at the2000 World Championships.

Stojko placed eighth at the2002 Winter Olympics inSalt Lake City. He turned professional in 2002.

He appeared as a hockey player Doug, in 2000's tv movieIce Angel.

Stojko was a commentator for CTV/TSN for the men's event at the2003 World Championships in Washington, D.C. In 2006, he was a celebrity judge on theWE tv seriesSkating's Next Star, created and produced by Major League Figure Skating. The show was hosted by Kristi Yamaguchi.

Stojko briefly reinstated as an Olympic-eligible skater and publicly declared his intention to compete in the2006 Olympics in Turin, Italy, before changing his mind and resuming his professional skating career. On August 10, 2006, he skated a farewell performance at a gala for the Mariposa skating club, where he trained most of his amateur career. He took a hiatus from active figure skating for several years.

Stojko provided commentary and analysis forYahoo! Sports during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.^[15] He wrote an article criticizing the figure skating judging system used during the 2010 Olympics, saying that it did not reward athletes for undertaking quadruple jumps.

Stojko participated in ISF Entertainment's acrobatic ice show, "A Rock & Roll Fantasy", in the July 2010 Calgary Stampede.^[16]

Since 2011, Stojko has beenracing karts in theCanadian Rotax DD2 Master Class and theSKUSA Mexico Series (S1 and S4 classes).

After Stojko relocated back from Mexico to Canada, he resumed his show skating career. He has participated in the Canadian tour ofStars on Ice since 2016,^[17] the show skating events of theCanadian National Exhibition in Toronto,^[18] and Busch Gardens' Christmas Town events inWilliamsburg, Virginia since 2015.^[19]

In 2016 Stojko played the role of Mercury in a TV-movieIce Girls.^[20]

Stojko played Sam Marshall, an ex-convict, in theCanadian television period dramaMurdoch Mysteries, in episode 13 of season 12 "Murdoch and the Undetectable Man" (January 28, 2019)

Stojko was named in thePandora Papers in 2021.

Since the retirement of Kurt Browning from show skating, Elvis is now the headliner for the Canadian tour of Stars on Ice.

• Three-time World Figure skating champion: 1994, 1995, 1997
• Two-time Olympic Silver medallist: 1994, 1998
• Seven-time Canadian Figure skating champion: 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002
• Four Continents champion: 2000
• Grand Prix Final Champion: 1996/1997
• Winner of theLionel Conacher Award: 1994^[21]
• First man to land a quadruple jump in combination (quadruple toe-loop, double toe-loop): 1991 World Championships^[22]
• First man to land a quadruple/triple jump combination (quadruple toe-loop, triple toe-loop): ISU Champions Series Final^[23]
• Inducted into theCanada's Sports Hall of Fame in 2006.^[24]
• Inducted into theOntario Sports Hall of Fame in 2009.^[25]
• Inducted into theCanadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 2011.^[26]

GP:Champions Series / Grand Prix

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