Kevin Reynolds

Kevin Reynolds (born July 23, 1990) is a retired Canadian figure skater.

Reynolds was born July 23, 1990, in North Vancouver, British Columbia to Daniel and Cindy Reynolds.

His mother, Cindy Reynolds, is a cytotechnologist.

He has a younger brother.

Reynolds raised in Coquitlam.

Kevin has Scottish, Ukrainian and a bit of Irish heritage.

In addition to figure skating, Kevin trained hockey in his young years.

Reynolds was home schooled to accommodate his training schedule.

He won the Canadian Nationals at the Juvenile level in 2001 and the novice level in 2003 at age 12.

The next year, he was fourth at the junior level, giving him a spot on the junior national team.

This earned him a spot to the Junior Grand Prix (JGP), where he placed 5th at his first event.

At Nationals, he moved up to second place at the junior level.

On the junior level, he is the 2006 JGP Final bronze medallist.

Reynolds is the first skater to have landed two quadruple jumps in a short program.

Reynolds placed 9th in his senior national debut, at the 2006 Canadian Championships.

At the 2006 World Junior Championships, he finished 7th after landing a 4S in the free skate.

In the 2006–07 season, Reynolds won a JGP event in Mexico and placed second in Taiwan.

At the JGP Final, despite suffering from food poisoning, he won the bronze medal after landing his first 4T in competition.

At the 2008 Canadian Championships, Reynolds landed a quad-triple-triple combination in his free program, the first Canadian to accomplish this.

He is the second skater of three in the world, under the ISU Judging System, to land the combination in international competition, after Evgeni Plushenko and before Kevin van der Perren.

In 2008–09, Reynolds finished fourth in both Grand Prix appearances and at the national championships.

He was assigned at the last moment to compete at the Junior World Championships, where he came in 9th.

Although Reynolds was not selected for the Canadian Olympic team, Skate Canada assigned him to the 2010 Four Continents Championships and the World Championships.

At Four Continents, Reynolds led after the short program, and although he faltered in the free skate, the combined score was enough to earn him the bronze medal.

At the 2010 Skate Canada International, Reynolds became the first skater to ever land two quadruple jumps in a short program.

Taking advantage of an off-season rule change allowing skaters to do both a solo quadruple jump and one in combination, Reynolds opened his program with a 4S-3T combo and later landed a solo 4T.

At his first World Championships, Reynolds popped a jump in the short program, but earned the second highest technical score in the free skate portion of the event, finishing in 11th place overall.

He is the 2013 Four Continents champion, 2010 Four Continents bronze medallist, 2014 Winter Olympics team silver medallist and a six-time Canadian national medallist (2012–14, 2017 silver; 2010, 2016 bronze).

His highest place at a World Championship is fifth, achieved at 2013 World Championships.

He is the first to have landed five quadruple jumps in one competition — at the 2013 Four Continents, he landed two quads in the short program and three in the free skate.

In December 2016 he passed the N2 level of Japanese-Language Proficiency Test, the second-hardest difficulty level and is organized by the Japan Foundation and Japan Educational Exchanges and Services.

His interest in Japanese culture developed in his youth and amassed him a large Japanese following during his skating career.

In 2016, he used the song "Tank!"

from the anime Cowboy Bebop in a routine while dressed as the anime's protagonist Spike Spiegel.

When asked in an interview at World Team Trophy, he stated that his favourite Pokémon is Farfetch'd.

At the 2023 Canadian National Championships Reynolds revealed that he was working on his Master's degree in Public Administration.

He also revealed that he was serving on the board of directors for the Green Party of Vancouver

Reynolds began skating at age five and began training with coach Joanne McLeod when he was nine.

He graduated from the University of British Columbia, in international relations, with a minor in Japanese Language and Culture in May 2019.

He speaks three languages: English, Japanese and French.