Owen Edwards (born 21 July 1987) is a Welsh retired

ice dancer Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. A ...

who competed for Great Britain. With

Louise Walden Louise Walden (born 19 August 1983) is a British former competitive ice dancer. With Owen Edwards, she won gold at the 2010 Ice Challenge, 2010 International Trophy of Lyon, and 2011 British Championships. They competed in the final segment ...

, he won gold at the 2010

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, 2010 International Trophy of Lyon, and 2011 British Championships. They competed in the final segment at two ISU Championships – 2011 Worlds, where they finished 20th, and 2012 Europeans, where they placed 13th.

Career

Walden and Edwards began skating together in June 2006. They made their international debut in October 2008 at the

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in Vienna,

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, where they placed 8th. Between April 2008 and September 2012, they were based at CSG Lyon International Skating Academy in France, where they were coached by

Muriel Boucher-Zazoui Muriel Boucher-Zazoui is a French coach and choreographer, and retired competitive ice dancer. She competed with Yves Malatier, and together they are the 1977 and 1978 French national champions. They competed twice at the European Championships ...

Romain Haguenauer Romain Haguenauer (born 16 July 1976) is a French ice dancing coach, choreographer, and former competitor. He is best known for his work with the French five-time World and 2022 Olympic champions Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron; and with ...

and

Olivier Schoenfelder Olivier Schoenfelder (born 30 November 1977) is a French retired ice dancing, ice dancer and coach. With partner Isabelle Delobel, he is the 2008 World Figure Skating Championships, 2008 World champion, the 2007 European Figure Skating Championsh ...

. They won the British national title in the 2010–2011 season. At the 2011 World Championships in Moscow, they qualified to the final segment and finished 20th overall. Walden/Edwards placed 13th at the 2012 European Championships in

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, England. In September 2012, the duo moved to Hackensack, New Jersey, to train under

Galit Chait Galit Chait (, ''Galit Hayat''; born on January 29, 1975) is an Israeli former competitive ice dancer. She and her partner Sergei Sakhnovski competed internationally for Israel from 1995 to 2006, becoming the 2002 World bronze medalists. Person ...

. In May 2013, the couple took to their official website to announce their retirement from competitive skating. Walden and Edwards were ranked 5th in the 2009/2010 UK national rankings and 2nd in 2010/2011. Edwards works as a skating coach in the UK.

Programs

(with Walden)

Competitive highlights

(with Walden)

References

Nice October 2010

Dortmund November 2010

Graz November 2010

Lyon November 2010

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Edwards, Owen British male ice dancers Living people Sportspeople from Wrexham 1987 births Competitors at the 2009 Winter Universiade Competitors at the 2011 Winter Universiade 21st-century Welsh sportsmen