Biography

Patrick Chan was born on December 31, 1990 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He has been married to Elizabeth Putnam since September 12, 2020. They have two children.

The quad is so nerve-wracking, so high-risk, but there's a big payoff.

I got so much more out of the bad results than had I won an Olympic medal. After the Olympics I thought, 'Why am I doing what I'm doing? Why am I skating?' I had the wrong mentality. I wasn't really skating for myself; I was skating for other people. The biggest thing it did was force me to find that passion again.

It's so important to pick the music you love. But I love the hits, the thump when you land. And I love hearing the ice cut, the crackle, as you push into it.

(on winning the World's competition in 2011) Usually you say, 'I want beat this person' or 'I want to knock that person off the podium'. But I'm that person right now.

[on environmental problems at the rink] I felt so lonely, People that I had trained with for a year-and-a-half became my worst enemies. They turned their backs on me. If I ever got in the way of Kurt Browning or Elvis Stojko and they got mad and yelled at me, I'd be, 'Oh my God! I'm so sorry!