| Mark Pepperday | ||||||||||||
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| Born | 15 March 1961 | |||||||||||
| Figure skating career | ||||||||||||
| Country | United Kingdom | |||||||||||
| Skating club | no affiliation | |||||||||||
| Retired | 1984 | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Mark Pepperday (born 15 March 1961) [1] is a British figure skating coach and former competitor. He is the 1977 World Junior silver medalist. His highest placement at the European Championships was 14th, in 1981, [2] and his highest placement at the World Championships was 20th, in 1983. [3]
He lived on 15 Mansfield Road in Selston, and attended the Matthew Holland Comprehensive School. His parents were Colin and Marlene. [4] His cousin Michael Aldred, from Derwent Road in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, also ice skated with Catherine Barker in the mid-1980s. [5] [6]
After retiring from competition, Pepperday toured with Holiday on Ice for three and a half years and became a skating coach. [1] He has been based at Bülacher Eislaufclub in Bülach, Switzerland. [7] He has coached Sarah Meier, [8] Moris Pfeifhofer, [9] and Myriam Leuenberger, [10] among others.
Mark Pepperday and Anita Pepperday-Siegfried have founded Pepperday's Pro Ice Skating [11] in 2019 and offer ice skating trainings in Bülach, Switzerland [7] and Dübendorf, Switzerland.
Currently he is training at the Eislaufclub, Küsnacht ECK in Küsnacht, Switzerland.
| International | |||||
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| Event | 76–77 | 80–81 | 81–82 | 82–83 | 83–84 |
| World Champ. | 21st | 20th | |||
| European Champ. | 14th | 16th | 15th | ||
| International: Junior | |||||
| World Junior Champ. | 2nd | ||||
| National | |||||
| British Champ. | 1st | 1st | 1st | ||