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Ice skater, born in Bristol, SW England, UK. He trained at the Bristol Ice Dance and Figure Skating Club (1968–80), and in 1980 became only the second British male to win an Olympic figure-skating gold medal. Other achievements include the European Championship gold (1980) and World Championship silver medals (1979, 1980), and he was World freeskating champion for three successive years (1978–80). He turned professional in 1980, and became artistic director of the Ice Castle International Training Center in California in 1989. He later returned to England and in 1997 co-founded the company Adventure! on Ice, creating and producing programmes for television. He later began his own production company, Cousins Entertainment Ltd. In 2000 he announced his retirement from professional ice skating, and now runs his own production company.

Olympic medal record
Figure skating
Gold	1980 Lake Placid	Men's singles

Robin Cousins (born August 17, 1957 in Bristol) is a British figure skater who won a gold medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Cousins also starred in, produced, directed, and/or choreographed many international TV ice spectaculars such as The Nutcracker on Ice, Sleeping Beauty on Ice, The Wizard of Oz on Ice, Toy Story on Ice, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express on Ice, Holiday on Ice, and the movie The Cutting Edge.

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Sporting positions
Preceded by: Sebastian Coe	BBC Sports Personality of the Year 1980	Succeeded by: Ian Botham

Olympic champions in figure skating – Men's singles European champions in figure skating – Men's singles

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NAME	Cousins, Robin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	British figure skater
DATE OF BIRTH	August 17, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bristol
DATE OF DEATH
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