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Olympic medalist
Lloyd Eisler
Medal record
Figure skating
Bronze	1992 Albertville	Pairs
Bronze	1994 Lillehammer	Pairs

Lloyd Edgar Eisler (born on April 28, 1963 in Seaforth, Ontario) is a Canadian pairs figure skater who competed with Katerina Matousek at the 1984 Winter Olympics, in which they finished in eighth place. He partnered with Isabelle Brasseur in 1987. They won five Canadian pairs championships, the 1993 World Figure Skating Championships, and they won bronze medals at the 1992 Winter Olympics and the 1994 Winter Olympics. They retired in 2004 and are members of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. He co-wrote Brasseur & Eisler: To Catch a Dream, in 1996 and the follow-up book Brasseur & Eisler: The Professional Years

Contents 1 Charity work 2 Personal Life 3 Controversy 4 Competitive highlights 4.1 With Lori Baier 4.2 With Matousek 4.3 With Brasseur 5 References

Brasseur & Eisler teamed up with Lou-Anne Brosseau (Hunt) in 1992 and formed a company known as B.B.E. Productions Inc. and together the group planned and organized professional figure skating events across Canada. Their main goal was to raise awareness and funds for the Children's Wish Foundation of Canada who named this dynamic duo National Spokespersons in September 1992. B.B.E. Productions Inc. has won several awards, producing more than 25 shows and raising more than $250,000.00 in awareness and sponsorship for the charity. In the years of operation (1992 - 2006), B.B.E. also granted several wishes to children suffering from life-threatening illnesses.

Eisler appeared in the 2006 FOX television program "Skating with Celebrities" in which he was partnered with actress Kristy Swanson. They reportedly began an affair while his wife Marcia was eight months pregnant with their second child. Representatives for both Eisler and Swanson have confirmed the couple are dating but deny that the affair began before the Eislers filed formal separation papers in November 2005. Eisler and Swanson were in Kingston, Ontario in February 2006 to promote and host the annual FebFest event with Jason Priestley, Kirk Muller, Doug Gilmour, Wendel Clark, Paul Coffey, Steve Larmer, Marty McSorley, Shayne Corson, Mark Napier, and Deanna Johnston of Rock Star: INXS. His wife Marcia has resumed using her maiden name and also changed their children's names to her maiden name as well. Kristy Swanson and Lloyd Eisler welcomed a son at 1:36 p.m. on Friday, February 16, 2007 and named him Magnus Hart Swanson Eisler. He weighed 7 lbs., 11 oz.

Effective October 6th, 2006, Eisler was suspended from coaching in Canada by SkateCanada. This was after sending sexually suggestive e-mail to a 15-year-old student. Eisler was coaching in the United States, where the Canadian ban does not apply, at the time it was announced. [1]

In 1994, he and Isabelle Brasseur were awarded the Meritorious Service Medal (civil division).

1982

• World Championships - 9th

1983

• World Championships - 10th

1984

• Olympics - 8th
• World Championships - 5th

1985

• World Championships - 3rd

1988

• Olympics - 9th
• World Championships - 7th

1989

• World Championships - 7th

1990

• World Championships - 2nd

1991

• World Championships - 2nd

1992

• Olympics - 3rd
• World Championships - 3rd

1993

• World Championships - 1st

1994

• Olympics - 3rd

• Brasseur & Eisler. (1996). Brasseur & Eisler : To Catch a Dream. Macmillan of Canada. ISBN 0-7715-7393-6.
• "Eisler showed different side", The Globe and Mail, Oct 20, 2006.
• "Eisler won't appeal ban", Toronto Star, Oct 20, 2006.