Brendan Kerry

Brendan Kerry (born 18 November 1994) is an Australian figure skater. He is the 2017 CS Ondrej Nepela Trophy bronze medalist, the 2017 CS Lombardia Trophy bronze medalist, the 2019 Toruń Cup champion, the 2016 Egna Spring Trophy champion, and an eight-time Australian national champion (2011, 2013–2019).

Brendan Kerry
Brendan Kerry in 2016
Personal information
Country represented	Australia
Born	(1994-11-18) 18 November 1994 (age 28) Sydney, Australia
Residence	Moscow, Russia
Height	175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Coach	Nikolai Morozov
Former coach	Tammy Gambill Galina Pachin Monica MacDonald Kylie Fennell
Choreographer	Nikolai Morozov
Former choreographer	Florent Amodio Mark Pillay Justin Dillon Cindy Stuart Monica MacDonald
Skating club	Macquarie Ice Skating Club
Training locations	Moscow, Russia
Former training locations	Riverside, United States Sydney, Australia
Began skating	2004
World standing	24 (2021-22) 28 (2020–21) 32 (2019–20) 35 (2018–19) 37 (2017–18) 39 (2016–17) 46 (2015–16) 75 (2014–15) 71 (2013–14) 131 (2012–13) 114 (2011–12) 154 (2010–11)
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	244.80 2022 Winter Olympics
Short program	85.89 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy
Free skate	160.01 2022 Winter Olympics

Kerry has competed in the final segment at fifteen ISU Championships, achieving his highest placement, sixth, at the 2022 Four Continents. He placed 29th at the 2014 Winter Olympics, 20th at the 2018 Winter Olympics and 17th at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Personal life

Brendan Kerry was born 18 November 1994 in Sydney.^[1] His mother, Monica MacDonald, competed in ice dancing at the 1988 Winter Olympics, and his sister, Chantelle Kerry is also a figure skater.^[1]

Kerry attended Epping Boys High School before transferring to Sydney Distance Education High School to focus on skating.^[2]

Career

Early career

Kerry started skating in 2004.^[1] He debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) series in 2008. He won the Australian national junior title in the 2009–2010 season. In 2011, Kerry made his senior international debut at the Four Continents Championships. He also competed at his first World Junior Championships.^[3]

In the 2011–2012 season, Kerry won the Australian national title on the senior level and was assigned to his first World Championships. He was cut after finishing 15th in the preliminary round at the event in Nice, France.^[3]

2013–2014 season

In September 2013, Kerry was sent to the Nebelhorn Trophy, the final qualifying competition for the 2014 Winter Olympics. As a result of his 8th-place finish, Australia received one of the six remaining spots for countries that had not previously qualified a men's entry. He placed 5th in both of his JGP events. In January, he reached the free skate at the 2014 Four Continents Championships in Taipei and went on to finish 20th overall. In February, Kerry placed 29th in the short program at the Olympics in Sochi, Russia, scoring 47.12 points.^[4] With only the top 24 advancing, it was not enough to progress to the final segment. He ended his season at the 2014 World Junior Championships, held in March in Sofia, Bulgaria. He placed 19th in the short, 20th in the free, and 21st overall.^[3]

2014–2015 season

Kerry competed at two events of the newly inaugurated ISU Challenger Series, placing 9th at the 2014 CS Lombardia Trophy and 11th at the 2014 CS Skate Canada Autumn Classic. He finished 17th at the 2015 Four Continents Championships in Seoul, South Korea. At his second World Championships, he qualified to the free skate for the first time by placing 17th in the short program. He finished 20th overall in Shanghai, China.^[3]

2015–2016 season

Kerry was invited to his first-ever Grand Prix event, the 2015 Skate America. He placed 11th in the short program, 7th in the free skate, and 8th overall. On 23 November, he was added to the 2015 NHK Trophy.^[5] He finished 12th in Japan and 19th at the 2016 Four Continents in Taipei, Taiwan. In March, he placed 17th at the 2016 World Championships in Boston after ranking 17th in both segments. Soon after, Kerry placed second in the short and first in the free to win the gold medal at Gardena Spring Trophy 2016, in Egna, Italy, setting two ISU personal bests (short program and total combined score).^[3]

2016–2017 season

Kerry was invited to two Grand Prix events, the 2016 Skate America and 2016 Trophée de France, and finished tenth at both. In December, he won his fifth national title. In February 2017, he finished 11th at the 2017 Four Continents Championships in Gangneung, South Korea, and fifth at the Asian Winter Games in Sapporo, Japan.^[3]

In March, Kerry placed 13th in the short, 15th in the free, and 15th overall at the 2017 World Championships in Helsinki, Finland. Due to his result, Australia qualified a spot in the men's event at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.^[3]

2017–2018 season

Kerry opened his season in mid-September, winning a bronze medal at the 2017 CS Lombardia Trophy and becoming the first Australian men's skater to finish on a Challenger Series podium.^[6] A week later, he received the bronze medal at the 2017 CS Ondrej Nepela Trophy.^[3]

After parting ways with long-time coach Tammy Gambill, Kerry confirmed his relocation to Moscow to train with Russian coach, Nikolai Morozov in mid-November.

Kerry was named to the Australian team for the 2018 Winter Olympics in November 2017 and won his fifth consecutive senior national title at the 2017 Australian National Championships in Brisbane in December. He attended his second Winter Olympics, placing twentieth in the men's event. He placed eighteenth at the 2018 World Championships.^[3]

2018–2019 season

After withdrawing from the Autumn Classic, Kerry placed eleventh and tenth at his two Grand Prix assignments, the 2018 Skate Canada International and 2018 Rostelecom Cup. Winning a sixth national title, he then placed ninth at the Four Continents Championships and twentieth at the World Championships.^[3]

2019–2020 season

Kerry won his second consecutive Halloween Cup, and then began the Grand Prix at the 2019 Skate Canada International, where he placed twelfth of twelve skaters.^[7] Kerry was seventh at the 2019 Cup of China.^[8]

Kerry placed twelfth at the 2020 Four Continents Championships.^[9] He was assigned to compete at the World Championships in Montreal, but these were cancelled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.^[10]

2020–2021 season

With the pandemic continuing to affect international travel, Kerry was assigned to compete at the 2020 Internationaux de France, but this event was also cancelled.^[11] He competed at French Masters as an invited international skater, winning the bronze. He was later named to the Australian team for the 2021 World Championships in Stockholm but withdrew due to a foot injury.^[12]

2021–2022 season

Kerry returned to international competition at the 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, where he placed seventh, securing a berth for Australia at the 2022 Winter Olympics.^[13] He fared less well at the 2021 CS Finlandia Trophy, his second Challenger event of the season, coming in thirteenth.^[3] Initially without a Grand Prix assignment, he was eventually named as a replacement for Maxim Naumov at the 2021 Rostelecom Cup, where he finished twelfth of twelve skaters. Kerry assessed his own performance as "terrible and very bad."^[14] He finished the fall season at the 2021 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb, where he was sixth.^[3]

Due to Australian federation rules with no national championships being held, Kerry was sent to the 2022 Four Continents Championships in Tallinn to compete with James Min and Jordan Dodds for the men's berth on the Australian Olympic team.^[15] Kerry finished in sixth at the event, over seventy points clear of Min, admitting afterwards that "it was really frustrating having to try to compete for the Olympic spot I earned again, a week and a half ahead of the Olympic Games."^[16] Shortly afterwards, he was named to the Olympic team.^[17]

Kerry was named Australia's co-flagbearer for the opening ceremonies at the 2022 Winter Olympics, alongside freestyle skier Laura Peel.^[18] Kerry placed seventeenth in the short program of the men's event.^[19] Sixteenth in the free skate, he finished seventeenth overall.^[20]

2022-2023 season

On July 22, Kerry was named to 2022 Skate America,^[21] but a few days later, Ice Skating Australia removed him from their assignments list, indicating he had withdrawn.^[22]

Programs

Season	Short program	Free skating
2021–2022 ^[23]^[24]	Leave a Light On by Tom Walker	Sevenlere Dair (To the Lovers) Op. 12/3 by Fazıl Say 85 by Travis Lake Emergence by 2WEI Butterflies and Hurricanes by Muse Come Alive A Million Dreams The Greatest Show (from The Greatest Showman) by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul
2019–2020 ^[25]	Puttin' On the Ritz by Irving Berlin performed by Terry Snyder Mah Nà Mah Nà by Piero Umiliani performed by LeRoy Holmes choreo. by Nikolai Morozov	Discombobulate Data Data Data (from Sherlock Holmes) by Hans Zimmer choreo. by Nikolai Morozov
2018–2019 ^[26]	Prelude - Havas by Hans Zimmer choreo. by Nikolai Morozov, Florent Amodio	You're the One That I Want performed by Lo-Fang Greased Lightnin' performed by John Travolta You're the One That I Want performed by Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta choreo. by Nikolai Morozov, Florent Amodio
2017–2018 ^[27]^[28]	Everybody Wants To Rule The World performed by London Symphony Orchestra feat. Spencer Jones and Mckenna Breinholt choreo. by Mark Pillay	Valley Of Dreams by John Tesh choreo. by Nikolai Morozov
2016–2017 ^[1]	Singin' in the Rain by Arthur Freed, Nacio Herb Brown	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl by Hans Zimmer, Klaus Badelt
2015–2016 ^[29]	Blue Drag by Allen Toussaint Boilemaker Jazz Band by Allen Toussaint	Beethoven's Five Secrets by OneRepublic
2014–2015 ^[30]	Blue Drag by Allen Toussaint Boilemaker Jazz Band by Allen Toussaint	Amélie by Yann Tiersen Micmacs by Raphaël Beau Iris by Danny Elfman
2013–2014 ^[31]	Nothing Else Matters by Metallica performed by David Garrett	Gangster Squad by Steve Jablonsky
2012–2013 ^[32]	Nothing Else Matters by Metallica performed by David Garrett	Angelica by Hans Zimmer performed by Rodrigo y Gabriela Angry and Dead Again by Hans Zimmer performed by Rodrigo y Gabriela
2011–2012 ^[33]	Third Movement Vivace Presto by Jon Lord	Dark Angel by Edvin Marton Horizon by Paul Schwartz Dark Angel by Edvin Marton
2010–2011 ^[34]	Sherlock Holmes by Hans Zimmer Psychological Recovery Catatonic	Dark Angel by Edvin Marton Horizon by Paul Schwartz Dark Angel by Edvin Marton
2009–2010 ^[35]	Final Flight by Toman Dandy Faster by L Jules X	Smooth Criminal by Michael Jackson Dirty Diana by Michael Jackson Thriller by Michael Jackson Beat It by Michael Jackson

Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International^[3]
Event	08–09	09–10	10–11	11–12	12–13	13–14	14–15	15–16	16–17	17–18	18–19	19–20	20–21	21–22
Olympics						29th				20th				17th
Worlds				33rd			20th	17th	15th	18th	20th	C	WD	WD
Four Continents			18th	19th	21st	20th	17th	19th	11th	13th	9th	12th		6th
GP Cup of China												7th
GP France									10th				C
GP NHK Trophy								12th
GP Rostelecom											10th			12th
GP Skate America								8th	10th
GP Skate Canada										11th	11th	12th
CS Autumn Classic							11th				WD
CS Finlandia Trophy														13th
CS Golden Spin									5th					6th
CS Nebelhorn Trophy														7th
CS Lombardia Trophy							9th			3rd
CS Ondrej Nepela										3rd
CS U.S. Classic									4th
Asian Games									5th
Gardena Trophy								1st
Halloween Cup											1st	1st
Nebelhorn Trophy						8th
Nordics Open								3rd
Shanghai Trophy												5th
Skate Down Under						1st
Toruń Cup							5th				1st	3rd
International: Junior^[3]
Junior Worlds			33rd	22nd		21st
JGP Australia				14th
JGP Estonia						5th
JGP Germany		21st	20th
JGP Latvia						5th
JGP U.K.	25th		14th
JGP U.S.		15th
NZ Winter Games				3rd J
National^[3]
Australian Champ.	2nd J	1st J	1st J	1st	2nd	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	C	C
French Masters													3rd

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External links

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