Full name Ricky Cockerill Retired 2005 | Name Ricky Cockerill Height 170 cm (5.6 ft) | |
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Former coach Viacheslav KuznetsovAndrei PachinGalina PachinGordon Rushton | ||
Ricky cockerill top 7 facts
Ricky Cockerill (born 26 October 1978) is a New Zealand former competitive figure skater. He is a seven-time consecutive (1998-2005) New Zealand national champion and competed in the free skate at five Four Continents Championships.
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- Life and career
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Life and career
Cockerill was born on 26 October 1978 in Dunedin, New Zealand. He attended Otago Boys High School, one of the country's oldest boys' secondary schools.
Cockerill trained as a figure skater in Auckland, New Zealand; Sydney, Australia; and Moscow, Russia. He represented New Zealand in a number of international competitions including three world championships and five Four Continents Championships. He is the first, and to this day the only New Zealand figure skater to complete all triple jumps as well as triple-triple combinations.
After retiring from sport in 2005, Cockerill completed an economics degree at Auckland University of Technology and moved to London to pursue a career in finance. There he began his career with Barclays Bank PLC and worked for three years in the corporate banking division at Barclays' head office in Canary Wharf. In 2010, he moved to Moscow to work for Barclays Russia.