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Full name
  
Dennis Coi

Died
  
1987

Name
  
Dennis Coi


Skating club
  
North Shore WC

Former partner
  
Julie Mutchen

Country represented
  
Canada

Dennis Coi was a Canadian figure skater. He was the 1978 World Junior Champion and the 1982 Canadian bronze medalist. Coi also competed in pair skating; with partner Julie Mutchen, he was the 1974 Canadian novice bronze medalist.

Coi was gay, although he did not come out even to his own family until being diagnosed with HIV. He died of AIDS in 1987, amid a spate of AIDS-related deaths of Canadian figure skaters, including Brian Pockar, Robert McCall and Shaun McGill, which was portrayed in the media as a major crisis for the sport.

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