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All-time Favorite ice dance teams?

Ice Dance

Record Breaker
Joined
Jan 26, 2014
1. Grishuk & Platov
2. Shibs
3. Silverstein & Pekarek/Klimova & Ponomarenko/Denkova & Staviski/Anissina & Peizerat/Fusar-Poli & Margaglio/Samuelson & Bates/McNamara & Carpenter
4. Cappellini & Lanotte/Pechalat & Bourzat/Lewis & Bye/Nguyen & Gart/Nguyen & Kolesnik/Loboda & Drozd/Mallory & Holdburg
5. Weaver & Poje/Bobrova & Soloviev/Stepanova & Bukin/Belbin & Agosto/Rahkomo & Kokko
 

4everchan

Record Breaker
Joined
Mar 7, 2015
Country
Martinique
virtue moir
bourne kraatz
rahkamo kokko
dubreuil lauzon
the duschesnays
weaver poje
gilles poirier
the shibs
klimova ponomarenko
lajoie lagha
 

Clairecz

On the Ice
Joined
Apr 4, 2018
Country
Czech-Republic
My all-time favourite ice-dance teams are all (almost) still active ones but I'll share them anyway...
(because of watching Javi in ShibSibs' vlogs I started watching their programs and thanks to watching them I started watching others as well ;) )

1. Papadakis / Cizeron
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2. ShibSibs
3. Hurtado/Khaliavin, Lauriault/Le Gac, Cappellini/Lanotte

and from Juniors: Khudaiberdieva/Nazarov and Kazakova/Reviya

I also liked Shira Ichilov/Vadim Davidovich but they split... (their Notre Dame de Paris was amazing).
 

MiraiFan

Final Flight
Joined
Oct 6, 2016
wilson mccall--their '88 free dance was amazing!
virtue moir
bourne kraatz
dubreuil lauzon
the duschesnays
weaver poje
gilles poirier
the shibs
klimova ponomarenko
fear gibson
 

labgoat

I have no words
Record Breaker
Joined
Jan 3, 2007
Country
United-States
Moiseeva & Minenkov
Torvill & Dean
Bestemianova & Bukin
Blumberg & Seibert as Fred & Ginger
Carol Fox & Richard Dalley
Karen Barber & Nicky Slater
Klimova & Ponomarenko
Usova & Zhulin 1989-1991
Wilson & McCall
The Duchesnays
Bourne & Kraatz
Anissina & Peizerat
Delobel & Schoenfelder - The Piano, Carnival
Denkova Staviski
Dubreiul & Lauzon - Somewhere in Time, At Last
Sinead & John Kerr
Belbin Agosto
Faiella & Scali
Fusar-Poli & Margaglio
Silverstein & Pekarek
Tessa & Scott
Meryl & Charlie
Capellini & Lanotte
Rubleva & Shefer
Crone & Poirier
Coomes & Buckland
Gilles & Poirier
Weaver & Poje - those splits and rotational lifts
Shibutanis
Chock & Zuerlein - Cabaret
Chock & Bates
Papadakis & Cizeron
Miramoto & Reed
Lorenz & Polizoakis
Good & Sorensen
Fournier-Beaudry & Sorensen
Wang & Liu
Hurtado Diaz
Hawayek & Baker
Turkkila & Versluis
McNamara & Carpenter
Fear & Gibson
Punsalan & Swallow
Rock & Sur
Wynne & Druar - the best Charleston
Eve Chalom & Matthew Gates
Pogrebinsky & Benoit
Christina Chitwood & Mark Hanretty - 2010 Worlds OD https://youtu.be/Xm3LjsEQBSY
 

Harriet

Record Breaker
Joined
Oct 23, 2017
Country
Australia
I've dropped in and out over the years so my knowledge of the field isn't as broad as it could be, but there's still nobody who can top Torvill & Dean for me. No, not even Papadakis & Cizeron.
 

skateluvr

Record Breaker
Joined
Oct 23, 2011
All time greatest Torvill and Dean and Virtue and Moir.

America’s greats Davis and white and Roca and Sur. There are so many. I never liked Pasha Grishuk for so many reasons. They were Russian and not the best. That era was so corrupt.
 

Skater Boy

Record Breaker
Joined
Feb 24, 2012
WE have been gifted with so many great teams.

Virtue and Moir
Usova and Zhulin
Klimova and Ponamarenko
Krylova and Oksianikov
Bestmianova and Bukin
Bourne and Kraatz
Dubreil and Lauzon
Davis and White
McCall and Wilson
Elena and Nikita
P and C
Weaver and Poje
Belbin and AGosto - probably just were unlucky who knows what could have been had the timing and momentum been different they may have medalled over Davis and White in 2010 or the Russians
 

Crossover

All Hail the Queen
Record Breaker
Joined
Oct 31, 2014
1. Delobel / Schoenfelder
2. Anissina & Peizerat
3. Torvill / Dean
4. Rahkamo / Kokko
5. Klimova / Ponomarenko
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The Duschesnays
Bestemianova & Bukin
Grishuk / Platov
Hawayek / Baker
Papadakis / Cizeron
 

StephenGfan

Final Flight
Joined
Apr 10, 2018
I've dropped in and out over the years so my knowledge of the field isn't as broad as it could be, but there's still nobody who can top Torvill & Dean for me. No, not even Papadakis & Cizeron.

Never got the appeal for T/D. I see their artistic innovation and brilliance they brought to ice dance but my peers and I on stan twitter find them personally kind of boring and slow. Maybe we are just too young, but V/M to us is like T/D to the older crowd.
 

StephenGfan

Final Flight
Joined
Apr 10, 2018
All time greatest Torvill and Dean and Virtue and Moir.

America’s greats Davis and white and Roca and Sur. There are so many. I never liked Pasha Grishuk for so many reasons. They were Russian and not the best. That era was so corrupt.



:coffee:
 

StephenGfan

Final Flight
Joined
Apr 10, 2018
1. Delobel / Schoenfelder
2. Anissina & Peizerat
3. Torvill / Dean
4. Rahkamo / Kokko
5. Klimova / Ponomarenko
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The Duschesnays
Bestemianova & Bukin
Grishuk / Platov
Hawayek / Baker
Papadakis / Cizeron

B/B's carmen and A/P's R&J are just fab and amazing to watch. I don't know much about older ice dance teams (pre 2010's) but these teams would be my favorite retro ones alongside K/P.
 

meem

On the Ice
Joined
Nov 24, 2006
Klimova & Ponomarenko
Davis & White
The Shibutanis
Weaver & Poje
Cappellini & Lanotte
 

andromache

Record Breaker
Joined
Mar 23, 2014
1. Papadakis/Cizeron
2. Torvill/Dean
3. Pechalat/Bourzat (robbed at 2014 Worlds)
4. Virtue/Moir
5. Davis/White

Honestly there are a LOT of gaps in my ice dance viewing. I straight-up didn't really watch until Belbin/Agosto (because I didn't understand ice dance as a kid, but I liked that an American team was suddenly relevant!) so I've missed out on a lot of the "essential" teams from earlier eras. Other than T/D, who I have watched enough on YouTube.
 

ladyjane

Medalist
Joined
Jun 26, 2012
Country
Netherlands
Torvill and Dean, Davis and White, Papadakis/Cizeron, Delobel/Schönfelder, Anessina/Peizerat, Klimova/Ponamarenko, Bourne/Kraatz.

I do like a lot of others, but these are the ones of whom I repeatedly watch programmes.
 

iluvtodd

Record Breaker
Joined
Mar 5, 2004
Country
United-States
Torvill & Dean, Wilson & McCall, Klimova & Ponomorenko, Usova & Zhulin, Krylova & Ovsianikov (sp.?), Bourne & Kraatz, Dubreil & Lauzon, Delobel & Schoenfelder, Punsalan & Swallow, Roca & Sur, Lang & Tchernyshev, Belbin & Agosto, Davis & White, The Shibs, Hawayek & Baker, The Kerrs, Papadakis & Cizeron, Cappellini & Lanotte, Failla & Scali, Pechelat & Bourzon, Weaver & Poje, Gilles & Poirier, Rakhomo & Kokko, Moniotte & Lavanchy Chock & Bates, Hubbell & Donahue, The Reeds, Chris Reed & his most recent partner (sorry, can't remember her name, but I loved their chemistry)
 
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