Craig Buntin

Duhamel and Buntin in 2008
Personal information
Born	(1980-05-27)May 27, 1980 (age 45) North Vancouver,British Columbia
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Figure skating career
Country	Canada
Partner	Meagan Duhamel,Valérie Marcoux,Elizabeth Putnam, Virginia Toombs, Marie Laurier,Chantal Poirier, Angela Kang, Chantal Chailler,Sarah Robinson
Coach	Richard Gauthier, Manon Perron,Bruno Marcotte, Sylvie Fullum,Paul Wirtz,Jamie McGrigor, Shannon Allison, Karen Bond
Skating club	CPA St. Leonard
Retired	July 2010
Medal record Representing Canada Figure skating:Pairs Four Continents Championships 2010 Jeonju Pairs 2004 Hamilton Pairs

Craig Buntin (born May 27, 1980) is a Canadian formerpair skater. He is the co-founder and CEO ofSportlogiq, a sports analytics company based in Montreal, Quebec. With former partnerMeagan Duhamel, he is the2009 Canadian silver medallist, the 2008 & 2010 Canadian bronze medallist, and the 2010Four Continents bronze medallist. WithValérie Marcoux, he representedCanada at the 2006 Winter Olympics, where they placed 11th.

Buntin was born on May 27, 1980, inNorth Vancouver,British Columbia.^[1] He studied for hisMBA degree atMcGill University.^[2] He married in August 2011.^[3]

Buntin won the 2000 Canadian junior national title withChantal Poirier. He teamed up withValérie Marcoux in 2002. The pair won gold at three consecutiveCanadian Championships, from 2004 to 2006. Their partnership ended in early 2007 whenValérie Marcoux decided to retire from competition.^[4]

In June 2007, Buntin teamed up withMeagan Duhamel.^[5] At their first competition together, the2007 Nebelhorn Trophy, they won the silver medal. In January 2008, the pair won the bronze medal at theCanadian Nationals but during the exhibition Buntin injured his shoulder, with which he had previous problems, as a result of a timing issue.^[5] They missed the Four Continents but competed at the2008 World Championships in Sweden on March 19, 2008, despite the shoulder still being a problem, and finished 6th. However, their participation aggravated Buntin's injury, tearing the rotator cuff, the labrum and three tendons; he had surgery in April and the recovery took seven to eight months.^[5] They could not practice lifts until two weeks before2008 Skate America so they worked on adding variations to their elements, such as a spread eagle entrance into a lift and a death spiral with the opposite hand.^[5] In November 2008, during the long program at theTrophée Eric Bompard, Duhamel accidentally sliced Buntin's hand a minute into the program on a move right after their side-by-side toe loop jumps and blood dripped on the ice; the pair stopped to get his hand bandaged and resumed the program to win the bronze medal.^[6] Duhamel and Buntin were the first pair to successfully land a throw triple lutz in competition.^[5]

In July 2010, Buntin announced his retirement from competitive figure skating.^[2]

GP:Grand Prix; JGP:Junior Grand Prix

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• Skate Canada Profile
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• Canadian male pair skaters
• Olympic figure skaters for Canada
• Figure skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics
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• Four Continents Figure Skating Championships medalists
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