Phillip Poole
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Phillip Poole is a multi-medal winning ice dancer and ice dance coach born 24 June 1981 in Windsor
, Great Britain
.
With his second partner, Charlotte Clements
, Poole became the 2002 British bronze medalist
. The following year he teamed up with Phillipa Towler-Green
and was coached by former World Champion, Diane Towler
. Poole and Towler-Green were the 2005-2008 British silver medalists and the 2004 Nebelhorn Trophy
bronze medalists.
Poole and Towler-Green represented Great Britain
at the European Figure Skating Championships
in 2006, 2007 and 2008. In March 2009 they competed at the World Figure Skating Championships
in Los Angeles, representing Great Britain alongside Sinead Kerr
and John Kerr
.
Between 2001-2009 Poole was a member of the British Olympic Squad.
coach since 1999 and has taught at Slough
and Alexandra Palace
ice rinks. Since 2009 he has taught at the John Nike
Leisuresport Complex in Bracknell
, Berkshire, where he is a full time coach.
In 2006 Poole and Towler-Green starred at Somerset House
's New Year's Eve extravaganza, televised live on BBC One
, alongside stars including Jamelia
, Natasha Kaplinsky
and Sophie Ellis-Bextor
.
During series two of ITV
's Dancing On Ice
reality TV show in 2007, Poole and Towler-Green were the ice dancing couple who appeared in the DFS
promotional sting in each edition.
In October 2010 Poole starred in the charity gala event Inspiration on Ice where he performed ice dance routines with Dr Charlotte Hawkins, a Harley Street
consultant
in aid of Cancer Research UK
, following an intensive 9 month training programme to take her from beginner level through to capable ice dancer. The event was hosted by Nicky Slater and Christopher Biggins
, and also featured Poole's own ice dancers and other members of Bracknell Ice Skating Club.
Phillip played the role of Prince Charming in the 2010 Bracknell ice pantomime
, Cinderella on Ice and between 2010-11 he was the stand-in male pro skater for series 6 of Dancing on Ice
with his celebrity partner, Faye Tozer
, from Steps.
(in Couples Ice Dance)
(with Charlotte Clements)
(with Holly Hambrook)
(as a Free Skater)
(as a Solo Ice Dancer)
Windsor, Berkshire
Windsor is an affluent suburban town and unparished area in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire, England. It is widely known as the site of Windsor Castle, one of the official residences of the British Royal Family....
, Great Britain
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
.
Competitive career
Phillip Poole's skating career began in 1986 at the age of five and he competed at his first British Championships in 1991. In the 1990s he was both British free skating champion and solo ice dance champion before commencing his couples ice dance career, initially partnering Holly Hambrook in 1998.With his second partner, Charlotte Clements
Charlotte Clements
Charlotte Clements is a British ice dancer. With partner Gary Shortland, she captured the gold medal at the British Ice Figure and Dance Championships in 1997 and again in 1998. She later teamed up with Phillip Poole and won the bronze medal at the 2002 national championships.She now coaches at...
, Poole became the 2002 British bronze medalist
British Figure Skating Championships
The British Figure Skating Championships are a figure skating competition held annually to crown the national champions of the United Kingdom...
. The following year he teamed up with Phillipa Towler-Green
Phillipa Towler-Green
Phillipa Towler-Green is a British ice dancer. After originally skating with Robert Burgerman they won 2 junior international medals , They represented Great Britain at 4 JGPs and 1 World Junior Championships...
and was coached by former World Champion, Diane Towler
Diane Towler
Diane Towler is a former British ice dancer and currently a figure skating coach....
. Poole and Towler-Green were the 2005-2008 British silver medalists and the 2004 Nebelhorn Trophy
Nebelhorn Trophy
The Nebelhorn Trophy is an international senior-level figure skating competition organized by the Deutsche Eislauf-Union and held annually in Oberstdorf, Germany. The competition is named after the Nebelhorn, a nearby mountain....
bronze medalists.
Poole and Towler-Green represented Great Britain
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
at the European Figure Skating Championships
European Figure Skating Championships
The European Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition in which figure skaters compete for the title of European Champion...
in 2006, 2007 and 2008. In March 2009 they competed at the World Figure Skating Championships
World Figure Skating Championships
The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion...
in Los Angeles, representing Great Britain alongside Sinead Kerr
Sinead Kerr
Sinead Houston Kerr is a Scottish ice dancer who represents Great Britain. She teamed up with her brother John Kerr in 2000. They are two-time European bronze medalists and the 2004–2010 British national champions...
and John Kerr
John Kerr
Sir John Robert Kerr, was the 18th Governor-General of Australia. He dismissed the Labor government of Gough Whitlam on 11 November 1975, marking the climax of the most significant constitutional crisis in Australian history...
.
Between 2001-2009 Poole was a member of the British Olympic Squad.
Coaching career
Phillip Poole has been an accredited National Ice Skating AssociationNational Ice Skating Association
The National Ice Skating Association is a British organisation that is responsible for the development of ice skating careers. It is known as the biggest ice-skating company in the UK...
coach since 1999 and has taught at Slough
Slough
Slough is a borough and unitary authority within the ceremonial county of Royal Berkshire, England. The town straddles the A4 Bath Road and the Great Western Main Line, west of central London...
and Alexandra Palace
Alexandra Palace
Alexandra Palace is a building in North London, England. It stands in Alexandra Park, in an area between Hornsey, Muswell Hill and Wood Green...
ice rinks. Since 2009 he has taught at the John Nike
John Nike
John Nike OBE is a Bracknell-based leisure and hotels entrepreneur.He used to own the Thames Valley Tigers basketball team. With his family, he is worth £92 million according to the Sunday Times Rich List 2006....
Leisuresport Complex in Bracknell
Bracknell
Bracknell is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Bracknell Forest in Berkshire, England. It lies to the south-east of Reading, southwest of Windsor and west of central London...
, Berkshire, where he is a full time coach.
Other Work
A young Poole is featured in 1998's The Young Ice Skater and Dorling-Kindersley's Superguides: Ice Skating (2000) books, where he is illustrated demonstrating moves and positions on the ice.In 2006 Poole and Towler-Green starred at Somerset House
Somerset House
Somerset House is a large building situated on the south side of the Strand in central London, England, overlooking the River Thames, just east of Waterloo Bridge. The central block of the Neoclassical building, the outstanding project of the architect Sir William Chambers, dates from 1776–96. It...
's New Year's Eve extravaganza, televised live on BBC One
BBC One
BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...
, alongside stars including Jamelia
Jamelia
Jamelia Niela Davis , best known mononymously as Jamelia, is an English singer-songwriter, model, entertainer, television presenter and actress. She is most famous for her use of a cappella and prolific work in the R&B genre...
, Natasha Kaplinsky
Natasha Kaplinsky
Natasha Margaret Kaplinsky is a British newsreader and television presenter, currently employed by ITV having previously worked for Channel 5, Sky News and the BBC...
and Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Sophie Michelle Ellis-Bextor is an English singer, songwriter, model and occasional DJ. She first came to prominence in the late 1990s, as the lead singer of the indie rock band Theaudience. After the group disbanded, Ellis-Bextor went solo, achieving widespread success in the early 2000s...
.
During series two of ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
's Dancing On Ice
Dancing on Ice
Dancing on Ice is a British television show co-hosted by Christine Bleakley and Philip Schofield, in which celebrities and their professional partners figure skate in front of a panel of judges. The format, devised by LWT and Granada Television, has been a prime-time hit in eight different...
reality TV show in 2007, Poole and Towler-Green were the ice dancing couple who appeared in the DFS
DFS
-File systems:* Depth-first search, an algorithm for traversing or searching a tree* DCE Distributed File System * Disc Filing System, a filesystem developed by Acorn Computers...
promotional sting in each edition.
In October 2010 Poole starred in the charity gala event Inspiration on Ice where he performed ice dance routines with Dr Charlotte Hawkins, a Harley Street
Harley Street
Harley Street is a street in the City of Westminster in London, England which has been noted since the 19th century for its large number of private specialists in medicine and surgery.- Overview :...
consultant
Consultant
A consultant is a professional who provides professional or expert advice in a particular area such as management, accountancy, the environment, entertainment, technology, law , human resources, marketing, emergency management, food production, medicine, finance, life management, economics, public...
in aid of Cancer Research UK
Cancer Research UK
Cancer Research UK is a cancer research and awareness charity in the United Kingdom, formed on 4 February 2002 by the merger of The Cancer Research Campaign and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. Its aim is to reduce the number of deaths from cancer. As the world's largest independent cancer...
, following an intensive 9 month training programme to take her from beginner level through to capable ice dancer. The event was hosted by Nicky Slater and Christopher Biggins
Christopher Biggins
Christopher Kenneth Biggins is an English actor and media personality.-Career:Biggins was born in Oldham, Lancashire, England and brought up in Salisbury, Wiltshire, where he took elocution lessons and participated in local drama groups...
, and also featured Poole's own ice dancers and other members of Bracknell Ice Skating Club.
Phillip played the role of Prince Charming in the 2010 Bracknell ice pantomime
Pantomime
Pantomime — not to be confused with a mime artist, a theatrical performer of mime—is a musical-comedy theatrical production traditionally found in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Jamaica, South Africa, India, Ireland, Gibraltar and Malta, and is mostly performed during the...
, Cinderella on Ice and between 2010-11 he was the stand-in male pro skater for series 6 of Dancing on Ice
Dancing on Ice
Dancing on Ice is a British television show co-hosted by Christine Bleakley and Philip Schofield, in which celebrities and their professional partners figure skate in front of a panel of judges. The format, devised by LWT and Granada Television, has been a prime-time hit in eight different...
with his celebrity partner, Faye Tozer
Faye Tozer
Faye Louise Tozer is an English singer, songwriter and actress; famous for being a member of pop group Steps.-Music:Steps were a pop group that achieved a series of charted singles between 1997 and 2001...
, from Steps.
Success of skaters coached by Poole
(in Solo Ice Dance)| Competition | Title | Year | Placing |
| British Championships | Pre-novice Men's | 2010 | 1st |
| British Championships | Novice Men's | 2010 | 1st |
| British Championships | Senior Ladies | 2010 | 2nd |
| British Championships | Senior Men's | 2010 | 1st |
| British Championships | Senior Ladies | 2009 | 1st |
| British Championships | Intermediate Men's | 2009 | 1st |
| British Championships | Novice Men's | 2008 | 2nd |
| British Championships | Intermediate Ladies | 2007 | 2nd |
| British Championships | Junior Men's | 2007 | 3rd |
| British Championships | Primary Men's | 2006 | 2nd |
| British Championships | Novice Men's | 2005 | 2nd |
| British Championships | Primary Men's | 2000 | 1st |
(in Couples Ice Dance)
| Competition | Title | Year | Placing |
| British Championships | Novice | 2003 | 2nd |
Personal Results
(with Phillipa Towler-Green)| Event | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2009-10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World Championships World Figure Skating Championships The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion... |
23rd | |||||
| European Championships European Figure Skating Championships The European Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition in which figure skaters compete for the title of European Champion... |
20th | 23rd | 18th | |||
| British Championships British Figure Skating Championships The British Figure Skating Championships are a figure skating competition held annually to crown the national champions of the United Kingdom... |
3rd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | |
| Finlandia Trophy Finlandia Trophy The Finlandia Trophy is an annual senior-level international figure skating competition, held in Finland. Skaters compete in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating and ice dancing, although not every discipline has been included in every year... |
6th | |||||
| Nebelhorn Trophy Nebelhorn Trophy The Nebelhorn Trophy is an international senior-level figure skating competition organized by the Deutsche Eislauf-Union and held annually in Oberstdorf, Germany. The competition is named after the Nebelhorn, a nearby mountain.... |
3rd | 7th | 9th | 12th | 9th | |
| Ondrej Nepela Memorial Ondrej Nepela Memorial The Ondrej Nepela Memorial is an annual senior-level international figure skating competition held in Slovakia. Skaters compete in four disciplines: men's singles, ladies singles, pairs, and ice dancing. In some years, some disciplines have not been held.... |
5th |
(with Charlotte Clements)
| Competition | Title | Year | Placing |
| British Championships | Senior | 2002 | 3rd |
(with Holly Hambrook)
| Competition | Title | Year | Placing |
| British Championships | Junior | 1999 | 3rd |
(as a Free Skater)
| Competition | Title | Year | Placing |
| British Championships | Primary | 1993 | 1st |
| British Championships | Novice | 1992 | 1st |
(as a Solo Ice Dancer)
| Competition | Title | Year | Placing |
| British Championships | Intermediate | 1998 | 1st |