Andrew Speroff (born May 19, 1988) is an American former

pair skater Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a ...

. With partner

Gretchen Donlan Gretchen Donlan (born November 18, 1993) is an American former pair skater. With partner Andrew Speroff, she is the 2013 Ondrej Nepela Trophy champion, 2013 Ice Challenge champion, and 2012 U.S. national pewter medalist. In July 2014, Donlan te ...

, he is the 2013

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champion, 2013

Ice Challenge The IceChallenge (2021 held as Cup of Austria; originally called the Leo-Scheu-Gedächtnislaufen) is an annual international figure skating competition, organized by the Grazer Eislaufverein and generally held every autumn in Graz, Austria. In som ...

champion, and 2012 U.S. national pewter medalist.

Personal life

Born in

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, Speroff was raised in

Cleveland Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located along the southern shore of Lake Erie, it is situated across the Canada–U.S. maritime border and approximately west of the Ohio-Pennsylvania st ...

until age ten when his family moved to

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. He moved to

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in 2009 to train with Donlan. He has a college degree in sports management. He married pair skater Kylie Duarte on October 8, 2018.

Career

Speroff began skating when he was eight. At age thirteen, he began training in the

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discipline with

Rachael Flatt Rachael Elizabeth Flatt (born July 21, 1992) is an American former competitive figure skater. She is the 2008 World Junior champion, a winner of four silver medals on the Grand Prix series, and the 2010 U.S. national champion. She was nomina ...

, who would be his partner for over three years. In 2001, Speroff had stress fractures in his lower back. The pair won the 2004 U.S. national title on the intermediate level before parting ways. Speroff had nerve damage in his shoulder in 2004. He later skated with Ariel Avant, Amanda Luchau, and Brittany Chase. Speroff and

were paired together in spring 2009 by coach Bobby Martin. The pair made their international debut at the

2010 Nebelhorn Trophy The 2010 Nebelhorn Trophy took place between September 23 and 26, 2010 at the Eislaufzentrum Oberstdorf. The competition is held annually in Oberstdorf, Germany and is named after the Nebelhorn, a nearby mountain. It is one of the first internatio ...

where they finished 4th. They were 8th at the 2011 U.S. Championships. Donlan/Speroff won the pewter medal at the 2012 U.S. Championships. The next season, they received a Grand Prix assignment, the

2012 Skate America The 2012 Hilton HHonors Skate America was the first event of six in the 2012–13 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the ShoWare Center in Kent, Washington on October 19� ...

, and finished 6th. The pair took the silver medal at the 2012

. In the 2013–14 season, Donlan/Speroff won gold medals at two international events, the 2013

and 2013

. Speroff retired from competition in 2014. He then began skating on cruise ships in partnership with Kylie Duarte.

Programs

(with Donlan)

Competitive highlights

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With Donlan

With Chase

References

External links

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Gretchen Donlan / Andrew Speroff
at IceNetwork
Official website of Donlan / Speroff
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