J. Paul Binnebose is an American

United States

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 retired pair skater. With partner Laura Lynn Handy

Laura Lynn Handy

Laura Lynn Handy is an American pair skater. She competed with partner Paul Binnebose, and the duo won the bronze medal at the 1999 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Later that year, Binnebose suffered a skull fracture, and he never returned to competitive skating...

, he won the bronze medal at the 1999 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. However, later that year, he fell while lifting Handy and hit his head on the ice, suffering a skull fracture and brain injury. He had emergency brain surgery and was put in an induced coma

Induced coma

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; his heart also stopped twice but he was brought back and gradually began to recover.

Binnebose's accident and recovery was featured on the Discovery Health Channel

Discovery Health Channel

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 television series Impact: Stories of Survival

Impact: Stories Of Survival

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As of 2010, Binnebose continues to suffer facial paralysis and other effects of the injury but returned to the ice and teaches skating. He married a fellow skater, with whom he has a son.

Results

(with Jacki Davidson)

Event	1996
U.S. Championships United States Figure Skating Championships The United States Figure Skating Championships is figure skating competition held annually to crown the national champions of the United States. The competition is sanctioned by U.S. Figure Skating. In the U.S. skating community, the event is often referred to informally as "Nationals".Skaters...	3rd J.

(with Laura Handy)

Event	1997–1998	1998–1999
World Championships World Figure Skating Championships The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion...		WD
World Junior Championships World Junior Figure Skating Championships The World Junior Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which younger figure skaters compete for the title of World Junior Champion...		2nd
U.S. Championships	6th	3rd
Nebelhorn Trophy Nebelhorn Trophy The Nebelhorn Trophy is an international senior-level figure skating competition organized by the Deutsche Eislauf-Union and held annually in Oberstdorf, Germany. The competition is named after the Nebelhorn, a nearby mountain....	1st