born: 22 october 1963
birthplace: mountain view (united states)
nationality: united states
sport: skating
attendance at the olympic games
sarajevo 1984
calgary 1988
lillehammer 1994
awards
olympic medals:
gold: 1
other results:
world championships
gold: 2 (86, 88)
silver: 1 (87)
bronze: 1 (85)
winning the battle of the brians
going into the free skating portion of the men's figure skating competition in calgary in 1988, brian boitano and brian orser were in a virtual tie for first place. boitano then gave a stunning performance despite the enormous pressure. "i felt like angels were lifting and spinning me,"he later explained.
the judging could not have been closer. four judges voted for orser, three voted for boitano and two scored it a tie. the judges who gave orser and boitano equal marks broke the ties by choosing the score for technical merit as the tiebreaker.
as both awarded boitano higher marks for technical merit, he ended up winning 5-4. because boitano was actually a friend of orser's, he had mixed feelings about his victory. "i almost felt guilty feeling great", he said. "i tried to hold it back, so me feeling great wouldn't make him feel worse".
生日：1963年 10月22日
出生地：加利福尼亚，美国
国籍: 美国
项目: 花样滑冰
参加奥运会时间：
1984年南斯拉夫萨拉热窝冬季奥运会
1988年加拿大卡尔加里冬季奥运会
1994年挪威利勒哈默尔冬季奥运会
奥运成绩:
金牌 1枚
其他成绩:
世界锦标赛
金牌2 枚 1986年 1988年
银牌 1枚1987年
铜牌 1枚 1985年
赢得布赖恩之战
1988年加拿大卡尔加里冬季奥运会花样滑冰比赛进入到男子花样滑冰比赛自由滑动作的角逐，来自美国的布赖恩-博伊坦诺和来自加拿大的布赖恩-奥泽两位布赖恩在榜首的位置竞争得非常激励，金牌变成了“布赖恩之战”。在巨大的压力下，博伊坦诺仍然奉献出一个让人惊艳的表演，“我感觉像一个天使俯身，在那支撑着我，助我在冰上旋转”。
双方的表演都非常精彩，裁判的评判也非常接近，有四位裁判认为奥泽为第一，三位认为博伊坦诺第一，另外两位裁判给他们的评分相同。
戏剧性的一幕上演了，因为技术因素，两位给他们相同比分的裁判选择了博伊坦诺，这样博伊坦诺就以5-4的比分战胜了奥泽。多年的征战让他们从对手变成很好的朋友，尽管获得了冬奥会的金牌，博伊坦诺的心情十分复杂，“我感觉很好，但又觉得很内疚，我希望我能能表现得内敛一些，这样我的感觉就不至于刺激到奥泽，因为他的表现也非常完美”。