Британдық мұзшабыр шампионы Джон Карри өмірі мен жетістіктері

British figure skater (1949–1994)

Curry was born on 9 September 1949 in Birmingham, England. He had two older brothers. As a child, Curry wanted to become a dancer, but his father disapproved of dance as an activity for boys. As a compromise, in 1957, he began to take figure skating lessons he moved to London to study with Arnold Gerschwiler, who coached him to his first British title in 1971. In 1972 Curry found an American sponsor who enabled him to study in the United States with Gus Lussi and Carlo Fassi.

Fassi coached Curry to European, World, and Olympic titles in 1976. In the same year he was the flag bearer at the Winter Olympics for Great Britain and was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1976. He was the first male figure skater from Great Britain to win Olympic gold. As an amateur competitor, Curry was noted for his ballet like posture and extension, and his superb body control. Along with Canadian skater Toller Cranston, Curry was responsible for bringing the artistic and presentation aspects of men's figure skating to a new level. At the peak of his competitive career, Curry was also accomplished both at compulsory figures and the athletic (jumping) aspects of free skating. During his 1976 Olympic free skate, using music from the ballet Don Quixote, he successfully landed a triple toe loop, a triple Salchow and a triple loop jump. His performance is known to have garnered the highest score ever given during the era of the 6.0 scoring in figure skating. He earned 105.9 points out of a possible 108 points from a panel of 9 international judges. Only the judges from Canada and the Soviet Union did not place him first. The programme, with its formal ballet positions and "measured restraint", Besides choreographing routines for the company, Curry commissioned works from such noted dance choreographers as Sir Kenneth MacMillan, Peter Martins and Twyla Tharp. Curry was reportedly a difficult person to get along with, and a dispute with the business managers of his company forced it to suspend operations in the mid 1980s. After that, Curry performed only rarely in public. Curry's Broadway theatre credits include Icedancing (1978) as a performer and director and the 1980 revival of Brigadoon as an actor and the Roundabout Theatre 1989 revival of Privates on Parade as an actor.

It is speculated that Curry was outed as gay by a German tabloid newspaper, Bild Zeitung. before the March 1976 World Championships. He was competing in Gothenburg as Britain's (and the world's) first openly gay high profile sportsperson. The revelation had occurred in February 1976, when John Vinocur, a reporter from the Associated Press, interviewed him in the days prior
to his Olympic victory. His report, which included quotes from Curry that were candid about his sexuality, was published 24 hours after the victory made headline news. Curry confirmed he was gay at a press conference in Innsbruck the same evening. It caused a brief scandal in Europe at the time, but Curry's sexual orientation was generally ignored by the press and public for many years afterwards. In 1987, Curry was diagnosed with HIV, and in 1991 with AIDS. In October 1992, he gave an interview to a newspaper in which he spoke about both his disease and his sexual orientation. He spent the last years of his life with his mother. He died of an AIDS related heart attack on 15 April 1994 in Binton, Warwickshire, aged 44. In line with his own wishes, Curry had a humanist funeral. Donald Spoto's authorised biography of actor Alan Bates stated that Curry and Bates had a two year affair and that Curry died in Bates's arms. Unreliable source: date=February 2022

In 2018, a documentary on Curry's life and career, The Ice King, was released by Dogwoof Pictures.

International Event 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 Winter Olympics 10th 1st World Champ. 14th 9th 4th 7th 3rd 1st European Champ. 12th 7th 5th 4th 3rd 2nd 1st St. Gervais 1st National British Champ. 2nd 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st