Bowman to Bring Talent Home for Pickwick Shows : Figure skating: Former national champion from Van Nuys to perform in benefits.

Christopher Bowman and Todd Eldredge, winners of the past two U. S. national men’s figure skating championships, are expected to participate in “Icetraveganza,” a benefit show produced by the Los Angeles Figure Skating Club.

Bowman, Eldredge and several other of the club’s international competitors will perform in shows Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. at the Pickwick Ice Arena in Burbank. There will be no scoring.

Bowman, 23, will be returning to his old stomping grounds. He grew up in Van Nuys and trained with Coach Frank Carroll at Pickwick until last year when Carroll opened his own Ice Castles International Training Center near Lake Arrowhead.

Eldredge, 19, originally from Massachusetts, now trains in San Diego with Coach Richard Callaghan. Eldredge was the surprise winner of this year’s national championships in Salt Lake City. Bowman, who was bothered by a back injury, placed fourth.

Both skaters competed in August at the Goodwill Games in Seattle. Eldredge, coming off a fifth-place finish in the World Championships, placed third in the Goodwill Games behind world champion Kurt Browning of Canada and Viktor Petrenko of the Soviet Union. Bowman, who appeared out of shape, was sixth.

Todd Sand and Natasha Kuchiki, the nation’s top pairs team, also will perform. Sand, 26, from Thousand Oaks, and Kuchiki, 13, from Canoga Park, were second at the U.S. championships behind Kristi Yamaguchi and Rudi Galindo. However, the gold medal-winning team split up to pursue singles careers soon after.

Kuchiki’s former partner, Richard Alexander, 21, from Simi Valley, will skate with his new partner, Tristen Vega, 16, from Torrance. Alexander and Vega joined forces a year ago and won the U.S. Juniors title only four months later.

Other top names who will be appearing in the show include 1984 Olympian Tiffany Chin, 1988 Olympic bronze medalist Peter Oppegard and the Olympic Festival gold medal ice dancing team of Jeanne Miley and Michael Verlich.

Proceeds go to the club’s Olympic and world competition fund with a portion donated to the fight against cerebral palsy.