Tamsin "Tammy" Sear (born 22 January 1977) is a British former competitive figure skater.

Tamsin Sear
Other namesTamsin Sear-Watkins
Born (1977-01-22) 22 January 1977 (age 47)
Oxford, England
Height1.61 m (5 ft 3+12 in)
Figure skating career
CountryUnited Kingdom
Retired2002

Sear is the first British female figure skater to land a triple lutz (completed at the 1998 British Championships) and the first to land a triple-triple jump combination at an Ondrej Nepela event.

Sear began skating in 1986 at the Oxford ice rink.[1] Her coaches included Tony Barron, Rafael Arutyunyan, Evelyn Kramer,[1] and Frank Carroll.

She is the 2000 British national champion in ladies' singles and was part of the British team sent to the 2000 European Championships in Vienna, Austria. She advanced to the free skate in that competition and placed 23rd. Sear also competed in the subsequent 2000_World_Figure_Skating_Championships in Nice, France, where she failed to qualify to the short program.

After retiring from competitive skating, Sear continued to perform in professional shows around the world as a principal soloist.

Sear coaches in the UK as Tamsin Sear-Watkins and is a UK Skating Level 3 performance coach and choreographer.[2] She is married with two children. Sear coaches her daughter Arabella Sear-Watkins,[3] who won the 2019 British Advanced Novice championship title[4] and who has competed internationally in the 2021-22 and 2022–23_ISU_Junior_Grand_Prix series.

Competitive highlights

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International[5]
Event 93–94 94–95 97–98 98–99 99–00 00–01 01–02
World Champ. 37th
European Champ. 23rd
Czech Skate 9th
Nepela Memorial 7th
International: Junior[5]
Blue Swords 16th J
Gardena 12th J
National[5]
British Champ. 3rd 2nd 1st 3rd 4th
J = Junior level

References

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  1. ^ a b "Tamsin SEAR: 2001/2002". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 18 April 2002.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ "L3 Licensed Coaches (valid from 1 March 2014 – 28 February 2015" (PDF). National Ice Skating Association. p. 3. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 October 2015.
  3. ^ "Arabella SEAR-WATKINS". International Skating Union.
  4. ^ "British Figure Skating Championships 2019 Advanced Novice Ladies Results". Archived from the original on 21 November 2021.
  5. ^ a b c "Tamsin SEAR". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 17 October 2016.
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