Derrick Delmore (born December 12, 1978) is an American

figure skater Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, when contested at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic disciplines are m ...

. He is the 1998 World Junior champion, the

2000 Nebelhorn Trophy The 2000 Nebelhorn Trophy took place between September 5 and 8, 2000 at the Bundesleistungszentrum Oberstdorf. It is an international senior-level figure skating competition organized by the Deutsche Eislauf-Union and held annually in Oberstdorf, ...

silver medalist,

2000 Karl Schäfer Memorial The 2000 Karl Schäfer Memorial (also known as the Vienna Cup) took place from October 4 through 7th, 2000. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, and pair skating Pair skating is a figure skating discipline d ...

bronze medalist, and 1999 U.S. National Collegiate champion.

Personal life

Derrick Delmore was born on December 12, 1978 at

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. In 1995, he was awarded the Paderewski medal for a decade of playing classical piano at the national level. He attended Stanford University, graduating in June 2000 with a double major in communications and psychology. Derrick is married to San Francisco-based physician Dr. Kenneth Leong.

Career

Delmore started skating when he was eight years old. He competed in novice pair skating with Alix Clymer in the 1990–91 season and with Crystal Kim in the 1995–96 season. Competing in men's singles, he won the pewter medal (fourth place) on the novice level at the 1992 U.S. Championships and on the junior level at the 1995 U.S. Championships. During the

1997–98 ISU Junior Series The 1997–98 ISU Junior Series was the first season of what was later named the ISU Junior Grand Prix, a series of international junior level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It was designed to be a junior-level compleme ...

, Delmore won silver in Bulgaria and finished sixth in Hungary. In December 1997, he was awarded gold ahead of Russia's Sergei Davydov and China's Li Yunfei at the

1998 World Junior Championships 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

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, Canada. At the 2002 Skate America, Delmore broke one of his blades during a practice session and back-up skates were delivered to him hours before the short program. He went on to finish 8th at the event. A right hip flexor injury began bothering him in early November 2002 after he fell on a quad attempt at the

2002 Skate Canada International The 2002 Skate Canada International was the second event of six in the 2002–03 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Colisée Pepsi in Quebec City, Quebec on October 3 ...

. Due to the injury, he withdrew from the 2003 U.S. Championships after placing 12th in the short program. Delmore appeared as the male lead in a musical production of '' Cold As Ice'' at the Gateway Playhouse in 2007 in New York. In 2008, he retired from single skating to compete as a pair skater. He and his partner, Kelcie Lee, placed 5th at the junior level at the Sectional Championship; they did not qualify for the 2009 U.S. Championships. Delmore works as a skating coach at the East West Ice Palace in California.

Programs

Competitive highlights

Pairs career

Singles career

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; JGP: Junior Series (Junior Grand Prix)''

References

External links

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Personal website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Delmore, Derrick American male pair skaters American male single skaters LGBT figure skaters 1978 births Living people Stanford University alumni People from Prince George's County, Maryland World Junior Figure Skating Championships medalists