Skaters Olympic Games - Volume 3 third chapter we see skaters in Vancouver: Estonia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary and Japan.
Germany
Sarah Hecken 16. Coached by Peter Sczypa in Mannheim.
Double National Champion (2008, 2010). 16th - European Championships 2010.
first Olympic experience.
Highscores ISU Short Program: 48.14
(Junior World Championships 2009) Free Program: 88.60
(Junior Grand Prix der Blauen Schwerter 2007) Total score: 135.83
(Junior World Championships 2009)
Stefan Lindemann 29 years. Viola Striegler coached in Berlin.
7 times national champion (2000, 2002, 2004-2007, 2010). 9th - European Championships 2010.
21e - Turin Winter Olympics (2006).
Potin: Returning to competition after an absence of 2 years because of injuries.
Highscores UIS - All
obtained at the European Championships 2010 Short Program : 70.19
Free Program:
133.76 Total score: 203.95
Marilyn Hausch / Daniel Wende 21 years / 25 years. Coached by Karel Fajfr in Oberstdorf.
National Champions 2010. 9th - European Championships 2010. 15th - World Championships 2009.
first Olympic experience.
Highscores UIS - All
obtained at the European Championships 2010 Short Program: 50.66
Free Program: 92.10
Total score: 142.76
Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy 26 years / 30 years. Training with Ingo Steuer in Chemnitz.
champions 6 times National (2004-2009). 2nd - European Championships 2010. 1st - World Championships 2009.
6th - Turin Winter Olympics (2006). Aliona Savchenko: 15th - Olympic Games in Salt Lake City (2002) and Stanislav Morozov, Ukraine's representative.
Highscores ISU Short Program: 74.16
(Skate Canada 2009) Free Program: 137.60
(European Championships 2010) Total score: 211.72
(European Championships 2010) Christina Beier / William Beier 25 years / 27 years. Losh train with Rene and Martin Skotnicky in Berlin.
4 times national champions (2005-2006, 2008, 2010). 15th - European Championships 2010.
first Olympic experience.
Potin: Beier and Beier separated for 1 year and skated with other partners. They are again a team in April 2009.
Highscores ISU Compulsory Dance:
31.48 (Skate Canada 2004) Original Dance: 48.45
(European Championships 2010) Free Dance: 78.45
(World Championships 2006) Total Score: 154.94
(World Championships 2006) Estonia
Elena Glebova 20. Coached by Anna Levande Tallinn.
5 times national champion (2004-2005, 2007, 2009-2010). 10th - European Championships 2010. 16th - World Championships 2009.
28th - Turin Winter Olympics (2006).
Highscores ISU Short Program: 55.90
(World Championships 2009) Free Program: 96.43
(Skate America 2009) Total score: 148.71
(Skate America 2009) Maria Sergejeva / Ilja Glebov 17 years / 22 years. Mariusz and Dorota coached Siudek in Torun (Poland). Triple
national champions (2007-2009). 13th - European Championships 2010. 17th - World Championships 2009.
first Olympic experience.
Highscores ISU Short Program: 48.62
(Junior World Championships 2007) Free Program: 84.81
(Cup of Russia 2007) Total score: 131.02
(Junior World Championships 2008) Irina Shtork / Taavi Rand 16 years / 17 years. Train with Lea Rand (Potin: it is the mother of Taavi Rand) in Tallinn.
National Champions 2010.
first Olympic experience.
Highscores ISU Compulsory Dance 24.89
(Junior Grand Prix Tallinn Cup 2007) Original Dance: 40.40
(Junior World Championships 2008)
Free Dance: 58.60
(Grand Prix Junior Cup Tallinn 2007) Total score: 121.62
(Grand Prix Junior Cup Tallinn 2007) France
Florent Amodio 19. Coached by Bernard Gless, and Philippe Didier Manaud Borie in Cergy.
National Champion 2010. First
erpérience Olympics.
Highscores ISU Short Program: 72.65
(Skate America 2009) Free Program:
131.38 (Grand Prix Final Junior 2008/2009) Total score: 199.58
(Junior Grand Prix Final 2008/2009) Brian Joubert 25. Coached Lawrence Depouilly in Poitiers.
6 times national champion (2003-2008). 3rd - European Championships 2010. 3rd - 2009 World Championships.
14th - Olympic Games in Salt Lake City (2002). 6th - Turin Winter Olympics (2006).
Highscores ISU Short Program: 88.55
(European Championships 2010) Free Program:
160.13 (Cup of Russia 2006) Total score: 240.85
(World Championships 2007) Vanessa James / Yannick Bonheur 22 years / 27 years. Sergei Zaitsev coached at Indianapolis (United States).
National Champions 2010. 7th - European Championships 2010. 12th - World Championships 2009.
First Olympic experience together. Yannick Bonheur: 14e - Turin Winter Olympics (2006) with Marylin Pla.
Highscores UIS - All
obtained at the European Championships 2010 Short Program: 52.04
Free Program: 99.24
Total score: 151.28
Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder 31 years / 32 years. Train with Muriel Zazoui and Romain Haguenauer in Lyon.
6 times national champion (2003-2008).
16th - Olympic Games in Salt Lake City (2002). 4th - Turin Winter Olympics (2006).
Potin: Isabelle Delobel gave birth to a boy October 2, 2009.
Highscores ISU Compulsory Dance 41.25
(European Championships 2008) Original Dance: 67.25
(World Championships 2008) Free Dance: 110.39
(World Championships 2008) Total score: 212.94
(World Championships 2008) Nathalie Pechalat / Fabian Bourzat 26 years / 29 years. Train with Alexander Zhulin, Oleg Volkov and Maxim Staviski Moscow (Russia).
National Champions 2009. 4th - European Championships 2010. 5th - World Championships 2009.
18th - Turin Winter Olympics (2006).
Highscores UIS - All
obtained at 2009 World Championships Compulsory Dance 36.54
Original Dance: Free Dance
61.83: 95.99
Total score: 194.36
Britain
Jenna McCorkell 23 years. Coached by Juri Bureiko Ninove (Belgium).
7 times national champion (2002-2004, 2007-2010). 14th - European Championships 2010. 20th - World Championships 2009.
first Olympic experience.
Potin: She is married to Belgian skater Kevin Van der Perren since May 2008 (photo of the couple
HERE).
Highscores ISU Short Program: 53.80
(European Championships 2010) Free Program: 93.76
(Cup of Russia 2009) Total score: 145.57
(European Championships 2010) Stacey Kemp / David King 21 years / 25 years. Mariusz and Dorota coached Siudek in Torun (Poland).
5 times national champions (2006-2010). Grade 11 - European Championships 2010. 13th - World Championships 2009.
First Olympic experience.
Highscores ISU Short Program: 49.36
(NHK Trophy 2008) Free Program: 92.03
(European Championships 2010) Total score: 137.29
(European Championships 2010) Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland 20 years / 20 years. Evgeni Platov and train with Philip Askew in Nottinghamshire.
16th - European Championships 2010.
first Olympic experience.
Highscores UIS - All
obtained at the European Championships 2010 Compulsory Dance: Original Dance
28.63: 46.98
Free Dance: 70.30
Total score: 145.91
Sinead Kerr / John Kerr 31 years / 29 years. Evgeni Platov coached at Princeton (USA).
7 times national champions (2004-2010). 5th - European Championships 2010. 7th - World Championships 2009.
10th - Turin Winter Olympics (2006).
Potin: Sinead attended the Georgian Otar Japaridze skater.
Highscores ISU Compulsory Dance 36.76
(European Championships 2010) Original Dance: 60.13
(World Championships 2009) Free Dance: 93.60
(World Championships 2008) Total score: 186.94
(World Championships 2008) Hungary
Julia Sebestyen 28 years. Gurgen Vardanjan coached in Budapest.
9 times national champion (2002-2010). 6th - European Championships 2010.
15th - Olympic Games in Nagano (1998). 8th - Olympic Games in Salt Lake City (2002). 18th - Turin Winter Olympics (2006).
Highscores ISU Short Program: 61.28
(European Championships 2005) Free Program:
107.60 (Skate Canada 2003) Total score: 165.22
(Skate Canada 2003) Nora Hoffmann / Maxim Zavozin 24 years / 24 years. Train with Alexei Gorshkov, S. Nagy, Nikolai Morozov and E. Garanina to Odintsov (Russia). Double
national champions (2009-2010). 10th - European Championships 2010.
First Olympic experience together. Nora Hoffmann: 17e - Turin Winter Olympics (2006) with Attila Elek.
Highscores UIS - All
obtained at the European Championships 2010 Compulsory Dance 31.53
Original Dance: Free Dance
50.05: 81.66
Total score: 163.21
Japan
Miki Ando 22 years. Train with Nikolai Morozov in Hackensack (USA).
Double National Champion (2004-2005). 3rd - 2009 World Championships.
15th - Turin Winter Olympics (2006).
Highscores UIS - All
obtained at 2007 World Championships Short Program : 67.98
Free Program:
127.11 Total score: 195.09
Mao Asada 19. Coached by Tatiana Tarasova and Folle Shanette to Toyota. Quadruple
national champion (2007-2010). 1st - Four Continents 2010. 4th - World Championships 2009. First experience
Olympic.
Highscores ISU Short Program: 75.84
(World Team Trophy) Free Program: 133.13
(World Championships 2007) Total score: 201.87
(World Team Trophy) Akiko Suzuki 24. Training with Hiroshi Naruse and Yoriko Nagakubo Nagoya.
2nd - Championship Japan 2010. 2nd - Four Continents 2010.
first Olympic experience.
Highscores UIS - All
obtained at the Cup of China 2009 Short Program: 59.52
Free Program:
117.14 Total score: 176.66
Takahiko Kozuka 20 years. Coached by Nobuo Sato, Kumiko Sato and Tsuguhiko Kozuka (Potin: it is his father).
3rd - Championship Japan 2010. 6th - World Championships 2009.
first Olympic experience.
Highscores ISU Short Program: 83.90
(Trophée Eric Bompard, 2008) Free Program:
153.78 (Grand Prix Final 2008/2009) Total score: 230.78
(Trophée Eric Bompard, 2008) Nobunari Oda 22 years. Coached by Nikolai Morozov and Noriko Oda (Potin is his mother) in Osaka Kyoto Hackensack (USA).
National Champion 2009. 7th - World Championships 2009.
first Olympic experience.
Highscores ISU Short Program: 87.65
(Grand Prix Final 2009/2010) Free Program:
163.33 (Trophée Eric Bompard, 2009) Total score: 244.56
(NHK Trophy 2006) Daisuke Takahashi
23 years. Utako Nagamitsu coached in Osaka. Quadruple
national champion (2006-2008, 2010).
8th - Turin Winter Olympics (2006).
Potin: Absent in the 2008/2009 season to heal a wound in knee.
Highscores ISU Short Program: 89.95
(Grand Prix Final 2009/2010) Free Program:
175.84 (Four Continents 2008) Total score: 264.41
(Four Continents 2008) Cathy Reed / Chris Reed 22 years / 20 years. Train with Nikolai Morozov in Hackensack and Walter Rizzo (United States). Triple
national champions (2008-2010). 16th - World Championships 2009.
first Olympic experience.
Potin: Their younger sister, Allison, is Georgia with Otar Japaridze.
Highscores UIS Compulsory Dance 28.58
(NHK Trophy 2009) Original Dance:
49.64 (4 Continents 2008) Free Dance:
81.77 (4 Continents 2008) Total score: 158.47 (4 Continents 2008)