Robin Wallace is a British former

freestyle skier Freestyle skiing is a skiing discipline comprising aerials, moguls, cross, half-pipe, slopestyle and big air as part of the Winter Olympics. It can consist of a skier performing aerial flips and spins and can include skiers sliding rails and ...

and coach of the Great Britain freestyle skiing team. He finished in the top 10 in over 20

FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup The FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup is an annual freestyle skiing competition arranged by the International Ski Federation since 1980. Currently six disciplines are included in world cup: moguls, aerials, ski cross, halfpipe, slopestyle and big air. ...

events, and competed in a

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at 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� ...

Career

Wallace took up skiing as a teenager, after a school ski trip. After working on an artificial slope, he joined the Southampton

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team. Wallace came second at a junior

ski ballet Ski ballet is a form of ballet performed on skis. It is very similar to figure skating, combining spins, jumps, and flips in a two-minute routine choreographed to music. It was part of the professional freestyle skiing tours of the 1970s and 1980 ...

international competition. Wallace competed in the

between 1981 and 1989. He finished in the top 10 at 22 events, and was at one time ranked sixth in the world. In 1984, Wallace was involved in a ski dancing and acrobats event at the

Earls Court Exhibition Centre Earls Court Exhibition Centre was a major international exhibition and events venue just west of central London. At its peak it is said to have generated a £2 billion turnover for the economy. It replaced exhibition and entertainment grounds, ...

. Wallace came sixth in the combined event at the 1986 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships. Wallace competed in the freestyle skiing

at the

. He was considered one of the favourites. Later in the year, he was suffered knee ligament damage during an event at the Earls Court Exhibition Centre, which sidelined him for six weeks. Fellow athlete Mike Whealey suffered a career ending injury at the event. After retiring, Wallace was the coach of the Great Britain freestyle skiing team for seven years.

Personal life

Wallace is from

Chandler's Ford Chandler's Ford (originally The Ford and historically Chandlersford) is a largely residential area and civil parish in the Eastleigh (borough), Borough of Eastleigh in Hampshire, England. It has a population of 21,436 in the 2011 UK Census. Cha ...

Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants) is a ceremonial county, ceremonial and non-metropolitan county, non-metropolitan counties of England, county in western South East England on the coast of the English Channel. Home to two major English citi ...

, England. Wallace is married to Jilly Curry, whom he also coached. Curry won 29 FIS World Cup medals, including three gold medals. Their son Lloyd competed in the

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and

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wallace, Robin Living people British male freestyle skiers Olympic freestyle skiers for Great Britain Freestyle skiers at the 1988 Winter Olympics People from Chandler's Ford Year of birth missing (living people)