Brandon Frazier

Brandon Michael Frazier (born November 19, 1992) is an American pair skater.

With his skating partner, Alexa Knierim, he is the 2022 World champion, the 2023 World silver medalist, a 2022 Olympic gold medalist in the figure skating team event, the 2022 Grand Prix Final silver medalist, a two-time U.S. National champion (2021, 2023), and a three-time Grand Prix gold medalist.

He competed as a roller skater from 1998 until 2004.

Brandon Frazier and Haven Denney first teamed up in 2002 as roller skaters before switching to the ice.

As figure skaters, they competed together for three seasons from 2005 to 2008, coached by Jim Peterson and Lyndon Johnston.

After two seasons on the juvenile level, the pair moved up a level and won the 2008 U.S. intermediate bronze medal.

The skaters decided to part ways with their families living in different states.

Skating with Mandy Garza, Frazier was 8th at a 2010–11 ISU Junior Grand Prix event in Austria and 5th on the junior level at the 2011 U.S. Championships.

Garza and Frazier announced the end of their partnership in February 2011.

Denney/Frazier teamed up for the second time in the spring of 2011.

They competed on the Junior Grand Prix series, placing 8th in Latvia and 7th in Austria.

They won the junior title at the 2012 U.S. Championships and were assigned to the 2012 World Junior Championships, where they placed 4th.

The pair was coached by Dalilah Sappenfield in Colorado Springs, Colorado until the fall of 2012 when they moved to Coral Springs, Florida to train with John Zimmerman and Silvia Fontana at Coral Gables.

Denney/Frazier finished 4th at the Junior Grand Prix event held in Lake Placid, New York.

With his former partner, Haven Denney, he is a four-time Grand Prix medalist (2 silver, 2 bronze), the 2013 World Junior champion, and the 2017 U.S. National champion.

Brandon Frazier was born in Phoenix, Arizona.

They placed fifth at the 2013 U.S. Championships in January.

In March, they won the gold medal at the 2013 World Junior Championships, the first American pair to win the title since 2007.

Denney/Frazier placed fifth at both their Grand Prix events, 2013 Skate Canada International and 2013 NHK Trophy.

In January, they placed fifth at the 2014 U.S. Championships.

A short time after, they placed fourth at the 2014 Four Continents Championships.

Denney/Frazier won medals at two Challenger Series events – gold at the 2014 CS Lombardia Trophy and silver at the 2014 CS Skate Canada Autumn Classic.

In the Grand Prix series, they won their first Grand Prix medal, silver, at 2014 Skate America and then finished fourth at the 2014 Rostelecom Cup.

In January, Denney/Frazier won the silver medal at the 2015 U.S. Championships.

After Nationals, they began training full-time under Ingo Steuer.

They finished 7th at the 2015 Four Continents Championships and 12th at the 2015 World Championships.

In April 2015, Denney/Frazier changed their training location from Coral Springs, Florida to West Palm Beach, Florida.

Soon after, on April 22, Denney sustained a knee injury while practicing a throw double flip off the ice.

She said, "When I landed, my foot stayed, and my body kept rotating," and she then heard "a couple of loud pops".

Having torn the anterior cruciate ligament, lateral collateral ligament, and bilateral and lateral meniscus in her right knee, she underwent surgery on April 28 at the Steadman Clinic in Vail, Colorado.

Denney put no weight on her right leg for six weeks and then began physical therapy before returning to the ice in October 2015.

During this time, Frazier worked on his skating skills under Marina Zueva and her team in Canton, Michigan.

In October, the pair started training at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.

Initially limited to basic stroking and crossovers, Denney began cautiously practicing jumps in late November.

Denney/Frazier did not compete in the 2015–16 season.

By April 2016, they were training with Rockne Brubaker and Stefania Berton at the Fox Valley Ice Center in Geneva, Illinois.

Denney/Frazier returned to competition, beginning at the 2016 CS Ondrej Nepela Memorial, where they placed fourth.

They were assigned to two Grand Prix events, 2016 Skate America and 2016 Skate Canada International.

They won the silver medal at Skate America and then placed fourth at Skate Canada.

They competed at a second Challenger event, the 2017 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb, where they placed fourth.