Eric Radford

Eric Radford (born January 27, 1985) is a retired Canadian pair skater. With former partner Meagan Duhamel, he is a two-time world champion (2015, 2016), a 2018 Olympic gold medallist in the team event, a 2014 Olympic silver medallist in the team event, a 2018 Olympic bronze medallist in the pairs event, a two-time Four Continents champion (2013, 2015), the 2014–15 Grand Prix Final champion, and a seven-time Canadian national champion (2012–18). He is the first openly gay man to have won a gold medal at any Winter Olympics. In doing so, he became the first competitive figure skater ever to come out at the height of his career, rather than waiting until he was near or past retirement; He is an ambassador for the Canadian Olympic Committee's #OneTeam program to combat homophobia in sports.

In addition to competing, Radford also coaches and composes performance music for skating. In February, they represented Canada at their second Winter Olympics, which took place in PyeongChang, South Korea. which featured figure skaters partnered with ice hockey players to create figure skating programs. In the fifth season, he was partnered with former Team USA player Amanda Kessel, and they were the first team eliminated from the competition.