Bryce Davison (born January 29, 1986) is an American-Canadian former competitive pair skater. With former partner Jessica Dubé, he is a three-time (2007, 2009, 2010) Canadian national champion, the 2008 World bronze medalist and the 2009 Four Continents silver medalist.

They represented Canada at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics.

Career Davison began skating at age three. He competed with Jessie McNeil at the pre-novice and juvenile levels. They were the 2000 Canadian Juvenile national champions. He later competed with Claire Daugulis on the novice and junior levels.

Davison teamed up with Jessica Dubé in July 2003. The two had a successful junior career before moving up to the senior level in 2005–06. They placed 10th at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games and 7th at the World Championships that same season.

In the summer of 2006, Dubé suffered an injury in practice and was removed from the ice on a backboard; she had knee surgery in September. They won their first national crown in Nova Scotia at the 2007 Canadian Championships. After an on-ice accident at the 2007 Four Continents (see below), they made a comeback a month later at the World Championships, where they again finished seventh.

Dube and Davison had a breakthrough season in 2007–08. They won their first Grand Prix medals, including a gold at 2007 Skate America. They lost the national title to Anabelle Langlois and Cody Hay at the 2008 Canadian Championships, but two months later at the World Championships, they won the bronze medal after finishing second in the long program; they set personal best scores in each segment of the event and overall.

The next two seasons did not prove as successful, and while they regained and then defended their national title, the pair were unable to repeat their success at the World Championships. Their top placement during this time was a second-place finish at the 2009 Four Continents Championships. Dube and Davison were part of Team Canada at the inaugural World Team Trophy in April 2009. In the 2009–10 Olympic season, they medalled at both Grand Prix events but did not qualify for the Grand Prix final. They were sixth at the Olympics and at Worlds.

Davison has osteochondritis dissecans, which led to his sustaining a serious knee injury in practice in October 2010, forcing the pair to withdraw from the 2010 Skate Canada International. He underwent season-ending surgery to reattach a broken piece of bone. The recovery period was estimated at 18 months.

Dubé and Davison announced the end of their partnership on March 10, 2011. He had felt they needed to make changes but Dubé was unwilling and suggested parting ways. Davison left open the possibility that he might continue skating if he finds the right partner. In July, it was reported that Davison had completed his Level I Coaching Certification and would begin coaching young skaters in Hamilton, Ontario. At the time, Davison said he might compete again, but in December 2011, he confirmed that he had retired from competition. He is the director of skater development at the Hamilton Skating Club.

Davison competed in singles until 2007. He is a member of the Hamilton Skating Club in Hamilton, Ontario.

Accidents On February 8, 2007, Dubé was struck in the face by the blade of Davison's skate during the free skate segment at the Four Continents Championships in Colorado Springs. The pair were on their third rotation of a side-by-side camel spin, in which one leg is horizontal during the spin, when Davison's spin began to travel towards Dubé, causing his skate blade to contact her face. She immediately fell to the ice and clutched at her face as blood pooled on the ice. Davison comforted her as the medical staff put her on a stretcher and took her to Memorial Hospital. She underwent surgery that night, receiving 83 stitches to repair a laceration on her left cheek and nose. Her eye was not affected and nothing was broken. Both skaters were later treated for post-traumatic stress disorder, but by March 2007 they had returned to competition together.

In April 2009, at the gala exhibition of the 2009 World Team Trophy in Tokyo, Dubé accidentally struck Davison on the head during a triple twist; he was unable to catch her and she crashed to the ice, hitting her head. Dubé and Davison were hospitalized as a precautionary measure, but neither was seriously injured.

Personal life Davison has dual American and Canadian citizenship. In addition to figure skating, he also played hockey until age 15. He formerly dated his partner Dubé. Davison studied human anatomy and physiology through Athabasca University online courses. He married retired Canadian synchronized skater Michele Moore Davison on September 9, 2017. The couple have two children together.

Programs (With Dubé)

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition 2009–2010 Requiem For a Dream by Clint Mansell The Way We Were by Marvin Hamlisch Fix You by Coldplay 2008–2009 Fix You by Coldplay Carmen by Georges Bizet On fire by Switchfoot 2006–2008 Galicia Flamenca by Gino D'Auri The Blower's Daughter by Damien Rice 2005–2006 Hasta Que Te Conocí by Raúl Di Blasio Piano Concerto No.7 by George Gershwin Endless Love by Lionel Richie, Diana Ross 2004–2005 Romeo and Juliet (1968 film) by Nino Rota, André Rieu Dance of the Knights by Sergei Prokofiev My Immortal by Evanescence 2003–2004 Whose Woods These Are by David Tolk Romeo and Juliet by Sergei Prokofiev

Competitive highlights Pairs career with Dubé Results International Event 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 Olympics 10th 6th Worlds 7th 7th 3rd 7th 6th Four Continents WD 2nd Grand Prix Final 4th GP Bompard 2nd GP Cup of China 4th GP NHK Trophy 3rd 3rd GP Skate America 6th 1st GP Skate Canada 2nd 2nd 3rd International: Junior Junior Worlds 2nd 2nd JGP Final 1st WD JGP China 2nd JGP Japan 1st JGP Mexico 1st JGP USA 1st National Canadian Champ. 1st J. WD 2nd 1st 2nd 1st 1st GP = Grand Prix; JGP = Junior Grand Prix; J. = Junior level; WD = Withdrew

Pairs career with Daugulis Event 2001–02 2002–03 Canadian Championships 5th N. 7th J. Junior Grand Prix, USA 5th N. = Novice level; J. = Junior level

Singles career Event 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 Canadian Championships 14th N. 3rd N. 10th J. 6th J. 15th 15th N. = Novice level; J. = Junior level

References

External links

Partnership biography from Skate Canada