Let's not forget about Shawn Sawyer. he was a great skater and performer with outstanding moves and flexibility,
And just look at his moves in this tribute to his mentor Toller:
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He did win a fluky silver medal at Skate America in 2009 though.
He had his best skates at nationals in 2011 (couldn't find them on you tube) where he placed 2nd in the short and free and overall. He qualified for worlds but due to worlds being postponed that year he ending up not going and then he retired.
I was just rereading a couple of Toller's autobiographies, including where he says he saw a similar artistic ability to his own in Shawn's skating.
In "Zero Tollerance" he includes a chapter on
"The Great Unknowns", skaters he admired but who mostly had little success internationally or even in their own countries, perhaps either because of competition nerves, or lack of opportunity for the best training, or, like Shawn's, problems with the big jumps. (In another book, "When Hell Freezes Over Should I Bring My Skates", Toller scorns achieving fame by just adding another rotation to one of the jumps.) Most of his favourites dropped out of competitions and achieved their best work as professionals.
The skaters he admired most from his own era were: Gary Beacom "the king of the Great Unknowns", Allen Schramm and his wife Angela Greenhow, Cindy Stuart, Catarina Lindgren, Simone Grigorescu, Sarah Kawahara, Doug Mattis, Christopher Nolan, Stephanee Grosscup, Robert Wagenhoffer, Karen Kresge, Ann Pellegrino, Kitty Kelly, Norm Proft, Kathleen Schmeltz, Daniel Weiss, and Suzanne Russell.
I had the great pleasure to be one of the hundreds of Toller's casual friends, only meeting him a few times in the 1970s. Memorably, we first met in mid-air. Literally. He had dropped in to a Montreal rink while visiting friends in the weeks leading up to the 1972 Olympics. It was my home rink at the time and I was on my own without my pairs partner, working on improving my Axel takeoff. By a fluke we were the only two skaters on the ice, and I stayed down at one end, confining myself to a small area and not paying attention to him. I guess he assumed I was a better, faster skater than I was and would be out of his way in seconds, while I forgot he was a reverse (clockwise) jumper, and didn't think of him being very much faster and stronger than I was. Absorbed in my own little putterings, I stepped forward into a takeoff for a single Axel just as he launched a double Axel right behind me. Mid-air collision that sent me flying. He was appalled, rushing to pick me up, brushing the snow off me, checking me out for injuries (none), and apologizing over and over.
I was only a couple of years older than he was, and finally I said, through gritted teeth, "Toller, if you call me Ma'am one more time I am going to KICK you!" Then we both started to laugh. My acquaintance with him was minimal, but he was never other than one of the nicest, politest people I ever met in my unspectacular skating career.
Needless to say, I'm not including *him* among the "less-known skaters"!
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