Barbara Berezowski is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 ice dancer. With partner David Porter

David Porter (figure skater)

David Porter was a Canadian ice dancer. With partner Barbara Berezowski, he won two gold medals at the Canadian Figure Skating Championships and competed at the 1976 Winter Olympics....

, she won two gold medals at the Canadian Figure Skating Championships

Canadian Figure Skating Championships

The Canadian Figure Skating Championships is a figure skating competition held annually to crown the national champions of Canada. It is organized by Skate Canada, the nation's figure skating governing body. The levels of the competition are senior and junior; in some years, the novice level has...

 and competed at the 1976 Winter Olympics

1976 Winter Olympics

The 1976 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XII Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated February 4–15, 1976 in Innsbruck, Austria...

. From 1994 through 2008, she served as Founding Chairperson of the Board of Governors of the Etobicoke Sports Hall of Fame. She was inducted into their athlete category in 1999.

Competitive highlights

(with Porter)

Event	1970-71	1971-72	1972-73	1973-74	1974-75	1975-76
Winter Olympic Games Winter Olympic Games The Winter Olympic Games is a sporting event, which occurs every four years. The first celebration of the Winter Olympics was held in Chamonix, France, in 1924. The original sports were alpine and cross-country skiing, figure skating, ice hockey, Nordic combined, ski jumping and speed skating...						10th
World Championships World Figure Skating Championships The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion...			15th	15th	9th	7th
Canadian Championships Canadian Figure Skating Championships The Canadian Figure Skating Championships is a figure skating competition held annually to crown the national champions of Canada. It is organized by Skate Canada, the nation's figure skating governing body. The levels of the competition are senior and junior; in some years, the novice level has...	5th	2nd	2nd	2nd	1st	1st
Skate Canada International Skate Canada International The Skate Canada International is an international, senior-level invitation-only figure skating competition organized by Skate Canada. It is the second competition of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating. The location changes yearly. Medals are awarded in four disciplines: Ladies' singles, Men's...					4th	2nd

1971

• Junior Canadian Champions - 1st -Winnipeg, Manitoba

1972

• Lake Placid Invitational Championships - 1st -New York, USA

1973
1974

• Moscow Invitational Championships - 5th - Moscow, USSR - named "Miss Charm on Ice"

1975

• Moscow Invitational Championships - 5th - Moscow, USSR - named "Miss Charm on Ice" second time

1976

• Prestige Cutlery Awards - 3rd - London, England
• Special Note: Barbara and David became first ice dancers in the world to become Olympians.
• Selected as "Miss Olympics" - at 1976 Winter Olympic Games, Innsbruck, Austria by world journalists
• Barbara Berezowski also won the title of "Miss Toronto" 1975-1976 and was a Finalist in the 1976 Miss Canada Beauty Pageant

Professional career

• 1976-1977 Barbara (with Porter) turned professional and toured with Toller Cranston's "The Ice Show"
• 1977 World Professional Dance Champions - 1st Jaca, Spain
• 1978-1980 Toured with Ice Follies
  Ice Follies
  Shipstads & Johnson Ice Follies was a touring ice show featuring elaborate production numbers, similar in concept to Ice Capades. It was founded in 1937 by Eddie Shipstad, Roy Shipstad, and Oscar Johnson, who also skated in the show. In later years, Olympic skaters such as Donald Jackson, Barbara...
  
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• 1982 Headlined in Professional Ice Show in "Stars on Ice" Seoul, Korea
• 1999 Performed in "Legendary Night of Figure Skating" celebrating Canadian Figure Skating Champions, Air Canada Centre, Toronto Canada

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