Katherina Matousek (born as Kateřina Matoušková; April 20, 1964) is a 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 ...

who competed for

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. As a junior skater, she won a regional junior pairs title skating with Brad Starchuk. Early in her career, she also competed with Eric Thomsen. She joined forces with partner

Lloyd Eisler Lloyd Edgar Eisler, MSM, (born April 28, 1963) is a former Canadian pairs skater. With partner Isabelle Brasseur, he was the 1992 and 1994 Olympic bronze medallist and the 1993 World Champion. Early partnerships and success Eisler first c ...

in 1982. In 1984, they won the gold medal at the

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and competed in the

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, finishing eighth. The next year they won the bronze medal at the 1985 World Championships. She retired on 14 May 1986 due to a

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in her right ankle, and began working as a skating coach in North Vancouver.

Results

With Lloyd Eisler

With Eric Thomsen

References

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