Phillip Poole

Phillip Poole
Phillip Poole
	Phillip Poole & Phillipa Towler-Green at the European Championships 2007
Personal information
Full name	Phillip Christopher Poole
Country represented	Great Britain
Born	24 June 1981 (age 41); Windsor, Berkshire, England
Home town	Windsor, Berkshire
Residence	London
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Partner	Phillipa Towler-Green ; Charlotte Clements
Coach	Diane Towler
Choreographer	Michael Stylianos
Skating club	Streatham Club, London
Retired	December 2009
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	136.67; 2004 Nebelhorn
Comp. dance	26.14; 2004 Nebelhorn
Original dance	43.70; 2009 Worlds
Free dance	68.56; 2008 Europeans

Last updated June 03, 2023

Phillip Poole (born 24 June 1981 in Windsor) is a multi-medal winning English ice dancer and ice dance coach.

Competitive career

Phillip Poole's skating career began in 1986^[1] at the age of five and he competed at his first British Championships in 1991. In the 1990s he was the British champion in novice-level single skating. He was also the champion in intermediate-level solo ice dancing before commencing his couples ice dance career.

With his second partner, Charlotte Clements, Poole became the 2002 British bronze medalist on the senior level. The following year he teamed up with Phillipa Towler-Green and was coached by former World Champion, Diane Towler. Poole and Towler-Green were the 2005-2008 British silver medalists and the 2004 Nebelhorn Trophy bronze medalists.

Poole and Towler-Green represented Great Britain at the European Figure Skating Championships in 2006, 2007 and 2008. In March 2009, they competed at the World Figure Skating Championships in Los Angeles, representing Great Britain alongside Sinead Kerr and John Kerr.

Between 2001 and 2009, Poole was a member of the British Olympic squad.

Results

(with Phillipa Towler-Green)

Results^[2]
International
Event	2004–05	2005–06	2006–07	2007–08	2008–09	2009–10
World Championships					23rd
European Championships		20th	23rd	18th
Finlandia Trophy						6th
Nebelhorn Trophy	3rd	7th	9th	12th	9th
Ondrej Nepela Memorial					5th
National
British Championships	3rd	2nd	2nd	2nd	2nd

(with Charlotte Clements)

Competition	Level	Year	Placement
British Championships	Senior	2002	3rd

(as a single skater)

Competition	Level	Year	Placement
British Championships	Primary	1993	1st
British Championships	Novice	1992	1st

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(as a solo ice dancer)

Competition	Level	Year	Placement
British Championships	Intermediate	1998	1st

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Coaching career

Phillip Poole has been an accredited National Ice Skating Association coach since 1999 and has taught at Slough and Alexandra Palace ice rinks. Since 2009 he has taught at the John Nike Leisuresport Complex in Bracknell, Berkshire, where he is a full-time coach.

Achievements of skaters coached by Poole in solo ice dance:

Competition	Level and discipline	Year	Placement
British Championships	Pre-novice Men's	2010	1st
British Championships	Novice Men's	2010	1st
British Championships	Senior Ladies	2010	2nd
British Championships	Senior Men's	2010	1st
British Championships	Senior Ladies	2009	1st
British Championships	Intermediate Men's	2009	1st
British Championships	Novice Men's	2008	2nd
British Championships	Intermediate Ladies	2007	2nd
British Championships	Junior Men's	2007	3rd
British Championships	Primary Men's	2006	2nd
British Championships	Novice Men's	2005	2nd
British Championships	Primary Men's	2000	1st

(in couples ice dance)

Competition	Level	Year	Placement
British Championships	Novice	2003	2nd

Other work

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A young Poole is featured in 1998's The Young Ice Skater and Dorling-Kindersley's Superguides: Ice Skating (2000) books, where he is illustrated demonstrating moves and positions on the ice.

In 2006 Poole and Towler-Green starred at Somerset House's New Year's Eve extravaganza, televised live on BBC One, alongside stars including Jamelia, Natasha Kaplinsky and Sophie Ellis-Bextor.

During series two of ITV's Dancing on Ice reality TV show in 2007, Poole and Towler-Green were the ice dancing couple who appeared in the DFS promotional sting in each edition.

In October 2010 Poole starred in the charity gala event Inspiration on Ice where he performed ice dance routines with Dr Charlotte Hawkins, a Harley Street consultant in aid of Cancer Research UK, following an intensive 9-month training programme to take her from beginner level through to capable ice dancer. The event was hosted by Nicky Slater and Christopher Biggins, and also featured Poole's own ice dancers and other members of Bracknell Ice Skating Club.

Phillip played the role of Prince Charming in the 2010 Bracknell ice pantomime, Cinderella on Ice and between 2010 and 2011 he was the stand-in male pro skater for series 6 of Dancing on Ice with his celebrity partner, Faye Tozer, from Steps.

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References

↑ Dobor, Helga (2005). "Interview with the British Icedancers James and Phillip and their Towler-Green girls". Absolute Skating.
↑ "Competition Results: Phillipa TOWLER-GREEN / Phillip POOLE". International Skating Union.

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[absk2005-1] Dobor, Helga (2005). "Interview with the British Icedancers James and Phillip and their Towler-Green girls". Absolute Skating.

[isucrPTGPP-2] "Competition Results: Phillipa TOWLER-GREEN / Phillip POOLE". International Skating Union.

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