Canadian ice dancer

Scott Moir

Scott Patrick Moir is a Canadian retired ice dancer and coach. With ice dance partner Tessa Virtue, he is the 2010 and 2018 Olympic champion, the 2014 Olympic silver medallist, a three-time World champion, a three-time Four Continents champion, the 2016–17 Grand Prix Final champion, an eight-time Canadian national champion, the 2006 World Junior champion and the 2006 Junior Grand Prix champion. Moir and Virtue are also the 2018 Olympic gold medallists in the team event and the 2014 Olympic silver medallists in the team event. Upon winning their third Olympic gold medal, they became the most decorated Canadian ice dance team of all time and the most decorated Olympic figure skaters of all time.

Born

1987

September 2

Died

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1980s

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1987 Born

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The world in 1987

When Scott arrived

april 11 The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
april 21 The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that detonates in the Sri Lankan capital city of Colombo, killing 106 people.
april 27 The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife, Elisabeth, who had also been a Nazi) from entering the US, charging that he had aided in the deportations and executions of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
april 4 Garuda Indonesia Flight 032 crashes at Medan Airport, killing 23.

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Adolph Rupp 1901–1977 American basketball player and coach (born 1901) Andreas Embirikos 1901–1975 Greek poet and photographer (born 1901) Austin Abrams 1996– American actor Bill Shankly 1913–1981 Scottish footballer and manager (died 1981) Billy Preston 1946–2006 American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (born 1946) Cleveland Amory 1917–1998 American author and activist (born 1917) Frederick Soddy 1877–1956 English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1956) Israel Gelfand 1913– Russian-American mathematician and biologist (died 2009) John Zorn 1953– American saxophonist, composer, and producer

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Andre Russell 1987– Jamaican cricketer Andrew Cogliano 1987– Canadian ice hockey player Brooklyn Decker 1987– American model and actress Carlos Quintero 1987– Colombian footballer Carolina Kostner 1987– Italian figure skater Charlotte Henshaw 1987– English swimmer Chelsea Manning 1987– American soldier and intelligence analyst Dana Vollmer 1987– American swimmer Daniel Hudson 1987– American baseball player

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