Matt Evers (born March 16, 1976) is an American

pair skater Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a ...

, model and actor. He is the 1998 U.S. Junior champion, and has competed in every series of the

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series ''

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''.

Career

With his partner Heather Allebach, Evers won the Junior

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title at the 1998 U.S. Championships. The following season, they competed at three senior international events, 1998 Skate Canada International,

1998 Cup of Russia 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

and 1998 Nebelhorn Trophy. He quit competing and moved to Los Angeles where he worked for a number of years before receiving an invitation to join ''

''.

Results

Pair skating with Allebach:

''Dancing on Ice''

Filmography

Personal life

Evers, who was married to a woman previously,

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in January 2018 in an interview with ''Attitude'' magazine. He said it was partly the death of his uncle from

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and the

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that resulted in his decision to announce his sexuality publicly, saying: "I live my life by example, and I want to show young people that what you feel or how you were born isn't something bad."

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Evers, Matt 1976 births Living people American male pair skaters Gay sportsmen LGBT figure skaters American LGBT sportspeople LGBT people from Minnesota