Ricky Cockerill

Ricky Cockerill
Personal information
Full name	Ricky Cockerill
Country represented	New Zealand
Born	(1978-10-26) October 26, 1978 Dunedin
Home town	Auckland
Height	170 cm (5.6 ft)
Former coach	Viacheslav Kuznetsov Andrei Pachin Galina Pachin Gordon Rushton
Skating club	Dunedin Ice Skating Club
Retired	2005

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.

Life and career

Cockerill was born on 26 October 1978 in Dunedin, New Zealand.^[1] 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.

Sporting results

References

External links

• Ricky Cockerill at the International Skating Union