Rudi Swiegers
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Rudi Swiegers is a Canadian
pair skater. With Paige Lawrence
, he is the 2011 Four Continents bronze medalist
, 2011 Canadian bronze medalist
and 2008 Canadian junior silver medalist
.
As juniors, Lawrence and Swiegers did not get off to a strong start, placing 14th at Junior Nationals
in 2006 and 2007. In 2008, however, they moved up to 2nd at the junior level and received several international assignments for the 2008-9 season. They were eighth and fifth at their two junior Grand Prix assignments before finishing fourth at the 2009 World Junior Championships
. The also skated to a fourth place finish the senior division at Canadian Nationals.
In the 2009-10 season, the pair moved up to seniors. They were seventh at the NHK Trophy but dropped to sixth at Nationals, receiving no further assignments for the season.
Lawrence and Swiegers started the 2010-11 season at the 2010 Skate Canada International
, where they won their first international medal, a bronze. They were fifth at the 2010 Cup of Russia
. At the 2011 Canadian Nationals, they made several mistakes in the long program to finish in third place, their first podium finish at the event as seniors. They were named to the Canadian team for the 2011 Four Continents Championships
. At the event, Swiegers was recognized as an example of good sportsmanship after lending his skate to Mark Ladwig
during the short program. Ladwig's boot heel broke during his program and Swiegers, who had skated earlier in the day, quickly offered his own skate so that Ladwig and partner Amanda Evora
could return to the ice to finish their program within the time allowed. Lawrence and Swiegers finished second in the short program and fourth in the free skate, with new personal best scores in both segments, and won the bronze medal. Swiegers later received a sportsmanship award from U.S. Figure Skating for his actions.
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...
pair skater. With Paige Lawrence
Paige Lawrence
Paige Lawrence is a Canadian pair skater. With partner Rudi Swiegers, she is the 2011 Four Continents bronze medalist, 2011 Canadian bronze medalist and 2008 Canadian junior silver medalist.-Career:...
, he is the 2011 Four Continents bronze medalist
Four Continents Figure Skating Championships
The Four Continents Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition. The International Skating Union established it in 1999 to provide skaters representing non-European countries with a similar competition to the much older European Figure Skating Championships and a chance...
, 2011 Canadian bronze medalist
2011 Canadian Figure Skating Championships
The 2011 Canadian Figure Skating Championships were a figure skating competition during the 2010–2011 season. The event determines the national champions of Canada and is organized by Skate Canada, the nation's figure skating governing body....
and 2008 Canadian junior silver medalist
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...
.
Career
Swiegers began skating at age ten, after his family moved from South Africa to Canada and began skating pairs at age fifteen. His first partner, Kristin Bonkowski, decided in 2005 to focus on her singles career. He then paired up with Lawrence, who was among the few skaters at his club who was also a clockwise jumper.As juniors, Lawrence and Swiegers did not get off to a strong start, placing 14th at Junior Nationals
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...
in 2006 and 2007. In 2008, however, they moved up to 2nd at the junior level and received several international assignments for the 2008-9 season. They were eighth and fifth at their two junior Grand Prix assignments before finishing fourth at the 2009 World Junior Championships
2009 World Junior Figure Skating Championships
The 2009 World Junior Figure Skating Championships was the World Junior Figure Skating Championships for the 2008–2009 figure skating season. Commonly called "World Juniors" and "Junior Worlds", they are an annual figure skating competition in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of...
. The also skated to a fourth place finish the senior division at Canadian Nationals.
In the 2009-10 season, the pair moved up to seniors. They were seventh at the NHK Trophy but dropped to sixth at Nationals, receiving no further assignments for the season.
Lawrence and Swiegers started the 2010-11 season at the 2010 Skate Canada International
2010 Skate Canada International
The 2010 Skate Canada International was the Skate Canada Grand Prix competition of the 2010–2011 season. It was the second event of six in the 2010–2011 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. The event was organized by Skate Canada.The event...
, where they won their first international medal, a bronze. They were fifth at the 2010 Cup of Russia
2010 Cup of Russia
The 2010 Rostelecom Cup was the Cup of Russia Grand Prix competition of the 2010–2011 season. Organized by the Figure Skating Federation of Russia, it was the fifth event of six in the 2010–2011 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series.The event...
. At the 2011 Canadian Nationals, they made several mistakes in the long program to finish in third place, their first podium finish at the event as seniors. They were named to the Canadian team for the 2011 Four Continents Championships
2011 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships
The 2011 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships was the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships for the 2010–2011 season. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dancing for the title of Four Continents Champion...
. At the event, Swiegers was recognized as an example of good sportsmanship after lending his skate to Mark Ladwig
Mark Ladwig
Mark Ladwig is an American pair skater. He competes with Amanda Evora. They are two-time U.S. silver medalists and two-time pewter medalists.-Career:...
during the short program. Ladwig's boot heel broke during his program and Swiegers, who had skated earlier in the day, quickly offered his own skate so that Ladwig and partner Amanda Evora
Amanda Evora
Amanda Evora is an American pair skater. She competes with Mark Ladwig. They are two-time U.S. silver medalists and two-time U.S. pewter medalists.-Personal life:...
could return to the ice to finish their program within the time allowed. Lawrence and Swiegers finished second in the short program and fourth in the free skate, with new personal best scores in both segments, and won the bronze medal. Swiegers later received a sportsmanship award from U.S. Figure Skating for his actions.
Programs
With Lawrence| Season | Short program | Free skating | Exhibition |
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| 2011–2012 | Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is a 1988 American comedy horror film directed by Tim Burton, produced by The Geffen Film Company and distributed by Warner Bros... by Danny Elfman Danny Elfman Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman is an American composer, best known for scoring music for television and film. Up until 1995, he was the lead singer and songwriter in the rock band Oingo Boingo, a group he formed in 1976... |
D'Artagnan by Maxime Rodriguez Maxime Rodriguez Maxime Rodriguez, born in Colombes, France, is a French composer. Many of his works, such as Esperanza, Child of Nazareth, and Tango Volver, D'Artagnan, Coeur Brave, L'enfant pur, have been used for figure skating programs.... The Man in the Iron Mask The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film) The Man in the Iron Mask is a 1998 British/American historical action film directed, produced, and written by Randall Wallace. It uses characters from Alexandre Dumas' D'Artagnan Romances, and is very loosely adapted from some plot elements of The Vicomte de Bragelonne. It also bears several... by Nick Glennie-Smith Nick Glennie-Smith Nick Glennie-Smith is a film composer whose most prominent work is a collaboration with Hans Zimmer on the score to the 1996 action film The Rock as well as work on the 1993 drama Point of No Return... Nouvelle France by Patrick Doyle Patrick Doyle Patrick Doyle is a Scottish musician and film score composer. A longtime collaborator of actor/director Kenneth Branagh, Doyle is known for his work scoring such critically acclaimed films as Henry V , Sense and Sensibility , Hamlet , and Gosford Park , as well as noteworthy blockbusters as Harry... |
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| 2010–2011 | City Slickers City Slickers City Slickers is a 1991 American comedy film directed by Ron Underwood and starring Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby, Helen Slater and Jack Palance. Palance won an Academy Award for his performance.... by Marc Shaiman Marc Shaiman Marc Shaiman is an American composer, lyricist, arranger, and performer for films, television, and theatre. He is perhaps best known for writing the music and co-writing the lyrics for the Broadway musical version of the cult John Waters film Hairspray, for which Shaiman won Tony and Grammy... |
Van Helsing Van Helsing (film) Van Helsing is a 2004 American action horror film directed by Stephen Sommers. It stars Hugh Jackman as vigilante monster hunter Gabriel Van Helsing, and Kate Beckinsale... by Alan Silvestri Alan Silvestri Alan Anthony Silvestri is an American film composer and conductor.-Career:Silvestri is best known for his collaborations with director Robert Zemeckis, having scored Romancing the Stone , the Back to the Future trilogy , Who Framed Roger Rabbit , Death Becomes Her , Forrest Gump , Contact ,... |
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| 2009–2010 | Baton Bunny Baton Bunny Baton Bunny is a Bugs Bunny cartoon of the Looney Tunes series, produced in 1958 and released in January 1959. It shows Bugs conducting an orchestra - with a fly bothering him. Bugs conducts, and in part, plays the overture to "Ein Morgen, ein Mittag und ein Abend in Wien" ", a composition by Franz... by Milt Franklyn Milt Franklyn Milton J. Franklyn was a musical composer and arranger who worked on the Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes animated cartoons.... |
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| 2008–2009 | Orange Blossom Sorbet by Joe Trio |
The Painted Veil The Painted Veil (soundtrack) The Painted Veil is the original soundtrack, on the Deutsche Grammophon label, of the 2006 Golden Globe-winning film The Painted Veil starring Naomi Watts and Edward Norton... by Alexandre Desplat Alexandre Desplat Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat is a French film composer. He has received four Academy Award nominations, five BAFTA nominations, five Golden Globe nominations, winning a Golden Globe for his work on The Painted Veil in 2006, and two Grammy nominations. In 2011, Desplat won his first British... |
Competitive highlights
(with Lawrence)| Event | 2005–06 | 2006–07 | 2007–08 | 2008–09 | 2009–10 | 2010–11 | 2011–12 |
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| World Junior Championships World Junior Figure Skating Championships The World Junior Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which younger figure skaters compete for the title of World Junior Champion... |
4th | ||||||
| Four Continents Championships Four Continents Figure Skating Championships The Four Continents Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition. The International Skating Union established it in 1999 to provide skaters representing non-European countries with a similar competition to the much older European Figure Skating Championships and a chance... |
3rd | ||||||
| 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... |
14th J. | 14th J. | 2nd J. | 4th | 6th | 3rd | |
| Skate Canada 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... |
3rd | 8th | |||||
| Cup of Russia Cup of Russia The Cup of Russia is an international, senior-level figure skating competition held as part of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating series. Figure skaters compete in the disciplines of ladies' singles, men's singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. It was held as the Rostelecom Cup in 2009 after... |
5th | ||||||
| NHK Trophy NHK Trophy The NHK Trophy is an international, senior-level figure skating competition held as part of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating series. Figure skaters compete in the disciplines of ladies' singles, men's singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.... |
7th | ||||||
| Nebelhorn Trophy Nebelhorn Trophy The Nebelhorn Trophy is an international senior-level figure skating competition organized by the Deutsche Eislauf-Union and held annually in Oberstdorf, Germany. The competition is named after the Nebelhorn, a nearby mountain.... |
5th | ||||||
| Junior Grand Prix, Belarus 2008-2009 ISU Junior Grand Prix The 2008–2009 ISU Junior Grand Prix was the twelfth season of the ISU Junior Grand Prix, a series of international junior level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It was the Junior-level complement to the 2008–2009 Grand Prix of Figure Skating, which was for Senior-level... |
8th | ||||||
| Junior Grand Prix, Great Britain 2008-2009 ISU Junior Grand Prix The 2008–2009 ISU Junior Grand Prix was the twelfth season of the ISU Junior Grand Prix, a series of international junior level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It was the Junior-level complement to the 2008–2009 Grand Prix of Figure Skating, which was for Senior-level... |
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| Junior Grand Prix, Germany 2007-2008 ISU Junior Grand Prix The 2007–2008 ISU Junior Grand Prix was the 11th season of the ISU Junior Grand Prix, a series of international junior level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It was the Junior-level complement to the 2007–2008 Grand Prix of Figure Skating, which is for Senior-level skaters... |
4th |
- J = Junior level
External links
- Paige Lawrence & Rudi Swiegers at Icenetwork
- Skate Canada team profile