Evan Lysacek biography
Evan Lysacek, (born June 4, 1985, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), American determine skater who received the lads’s determine skating gold medal on the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.
Lysacek began skating at age eight when his grandmother bought a pair of hockey skates for him. Though he initially confirmed no pure skill on the ice, he quickly improved after studying the fundamentals in group classes along with his sister’s determine skating courses. After mastering just a few tips, he was inspired by non-public coaches to pursue determine skating. In only one yr, he certified to compete at nationwide competitions, and he captured first place on the juvenile ability degree on the 1996 Junior Olympics. He went on to win on the novice (1999) and junior (2000) ranges.
After graduating from highschool, Lysacek moved to California, the place he skilled below famed coach Frank Carroll. At the Turin 2006 Olympic Winter Games, Lysacek was in tenth place on the finish of the brief program and sick with the abdomen flu. He gained nationwide consideration by preventing by his sickness in the course of the free skate and finally inserting fourth general within the males’s skating occasion. In 2007 he captured the bronze medal on the 2007 International Skating Union (ISU) Grand Prix Final. In the U.S. championships on the senior degree, he was twice gold medalist (2007 and 2008), silver medalist (2006 and 2010), and bronze medalist (2005 and 2009). Though harm compelled him to withdraw from the world championships in 2008, Lysacek was victorious at that competitors in 2009; he was the primary American in 13 years (since Todd Eldredge) to turn out to be world champion. That yr Lysacek additionally received the Grand Prix Final. At the 2010 Winter Olympics he upset defending gold medalist Yevgeny Plushchenko to turn out to be the primary American man to win Olympic determine skating gold since Brian Boitano in 1988.
Lysacek didn't compete within the two skating seasons that adopted his Olympic triumph. He tried to return in time to qualify for the 2014 Sochi Olympics, however he sustained a lot of accidents throughout his coaching and, in December 2013, introduced that he wouldn't be capable to defend his Olympic gold medal.