Christopher Colin Dean, OBE (born 27 July 1958) is a British ice dancer who won a gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics with his skating partner Jayne Torvill.

At school he was captain of the football team and he saw ice skating as a sport that was athletic and graceful.

They began skating together when he was 14 and competed as ice dancers for a few years under their instructor Len Sayward.

These difficult times brought them closer and gave them a sense of discipline that was to prove vital throughout their career.

[citation needed] By 1980, Torvill and Dean had progressed to not only become British National Dance Champions but were in medal contention in international competitions as well.

Torvill and Dean's free programme at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, performed to the music of Maurice Ravel's Boléro, became world-famous.

In 1993 the International Skating Union relaxed the rules for professional skaters, allowing the pair to participate in the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer where they won a bronze medal.

[10] Torvill and Dean were ambassadors for the 2012 European Figure Skating Championships in Sheffield, England.

[10] In February 2014, they visited Sarajevo for the 30th anniversary of the 1984 Olympics, and recreated their Bolero routine in the same arena where they won the gold.

[11] In 2018, Dean choreographed the free programme of Aljona Savchenko and Bruno Massot, who won the gold medal in Pair skating with a world record at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.