Karyn Garossino (born June 7, 1965 in

Didsbury, Alberta Didsbury is a town in central Alberta, Canada at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It is located next to Alberta Highway 2A, near the Queen Elizabeth II Highway. Didsbury is within the Calgary-Edmonton corridor. Didsbury is approximately th ...

) is a former

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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. Ac ...

. With her brother Rod Garossino, she competed in the

1988 Winter Olympics The 1988 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XV Olympic Winter Games (french: XVes Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Calgary 1988 ( bla, Mohkínsstsisi 1988; sto, Wîchîspa Oyade 1988 or ; cr, Otôskwanihk 1998/; srs, Guts� ...

Olympic results
/ref> and won the gold medal at the 1989

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Competitive highlights

(with Rod Garossino)

Life after skating

After her skating career was over, Garossino moved to Calgary, AB, where she got into the profession of performance coaching with other athletes. After five years there, she moved to British Columbia. She is the aunt of producer, singer and artist Claire Boucher, also known as

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References

1965 births Living people Canadian female ice dancers Figure skaters at the 1988 Winter Olympics Olympic figure skaters of Canada People from Didsbury, Alberta World Junior Figure Skating Championships medalists {{Canada-figure-skating-bio-stub