Martin Bidař

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Martin Bidař
Dušková and Bidař at the 2015–16 JGP Final
Born (1999-02-24) 24 February 1999 (age 25)
České Budějovice, Czech Republic
HometownČeské Budějovice, Czech Republic
Height1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Figure skating career
Country Czech Republic
PartnerBarbora Kucianová
CoachPetr Bidař
Bruno Marcotte
Skating clubBK České Budějovice
Began skating2003
Highest WS14th (2016–17)
Medal record
Representing  Czech Republic
Figure skating: Pairs
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2016 Debrecen Pairs
Junior Grand Prix Final
Silver medal – second place 2016–17 Marseille Pairs
Silver medal – second place 2015–16 Barcelona Pairs

Martin Bidař (born 24 February 1999) is a Czech pair skater. Partnering with Jelizaveta Žuková they are two-time Czech national champions (2020–2021) and represented the Czech Republic at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

With former partner Anna Dušková, he is the 2016 World Junior champion, 2016 Youth Olympic silver medalist (individually and in the team event), and 2015 JGP Final silver medalist. Dušková/Bidař represented the Czech Republic at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Personal life[edit]

Martin Bidař was born on 24 February 1999 in České Budějovice, Czech Republic.[1] He is the son of a figure skating coach, Iveta Bidařová, and the younger brother of a former pair skater, Petr Bidař.[2] His sisters were also figure skaters.[3]

Skating career[edit]

Early years[edit]

Martin Bidař started learning to skate in 2003.[1] Originally single skaters, he and Anna Dušková began skating together as a pair after their coach, Eva Horklová, suggested the idea.[3] Recalling their beginnings, Dušková stated, "It was quite embarrassing at first because everybody was skating singles, and we had to hold hands. We were so young and shy."[3] In the 2011–2012 season, they competed on the novice national level.

2013–2014 season: Junior international debut[edit]

Dušková/Bidař's ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) debut came in the 2013–2014 season; they finished eighth in September 2013 in Košice, Slovakia, and sixth the next month in Ostrava, Czech Republic. In March 2014, the pair placed tenth at the World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, having ranked tenth in both segments.

2014–2015 season[edit]

In 2014–2015, Dušková/Bidař continued on the JGP series, finishing tenth in Estonia and eighth in Germany. They came in eighth at the 2015 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, after placing ninth in both segments.

2015–2016 season: World Junior champions[edit]

Although based mainly in the Czech Republic,[4] Dušková/Bidař also spent some time training in Montreal and Sochi in the summer of 2015 and made another visit to Montreal during the competitive season.[3]

Competing in the 2015 JGP series, Dušková/Bidař won a silver medal in August in Linz, Austria, and finished fourth the following month in Riga, Latvia. The results qualified them for the 2015 JGP Final, held in December 2015 in Barcelona, Spain. Ranked third in the short program and second in the free skate, Dušková/Bidař edged out Russia's Atakhanova/Spiridonov by 0.33 for the silver medal behind Borisova/Sopot, who won gold by a margin of 9.53 points.[5] They became the first Czech pair to step on the podium at a JGP Final.

In February 2016, Dušková/Bidař competed in Hamar, Norway, at the Winter Youth Olympics, placing first in the short program, second in the free skate, and second overall with a total score 2.53 less than Borisova/Sopot. Their silver is the Czech Republic's first Youth Olympic medal in figure skating. In March, Dušková/Bidař won gold at the 2016 World Junior Championships in Debrecen, Hungary.[6] Ranked first in both segments, they outscored two Russian pairs – silver medalists Mishina/Mirzoev by 9.22 points and bronze medalists Borisova]]/Sopot by 12.82 points – to become the Czech Republic's first World Junior champions in figure skating. They are also the first pairs skaters from outside China, Russia, or the United States to win the competition since 2001. On their future plans, Dušková stated that "there will be less and less singles competitions for me. We will concentrate on pairs."[7]

2016–2017 season: Senior debut[edit]

Ahead of the season, Dušková/Bidař spent three weeks training in Montreal before returning to the Czech Republic.[8] Opening their season on the JGP series, the pair won gold at their September event in Ostrava, ahead of Atakhanova/Spiridonov, and then silver the following month in Dresden, behind Mishina/Mirzoev. Later in October, making their senior international debut, they outscored Austrians Ziegler/Kiefer to win the International Cup of Nice. In December, they placed second to Mishina/Mirzoev at the JGP Final in Marseille.

Dušková/Bidař placed seventh at the 2017 European Championships in Ostrava and fourteenth at the 2017 World Championships in Helsinki.

2017–2018 season: Pyeongchang Olympics, end of Duškova/Bidař[edit]

In September 2017, Dušková/Bidař competed at the Nebelhorn Trophy, the final qualifying opportunity for the 2018 Winter Olympics. The pair placed ninth and earned a spot for the Czech Republic in the pairs event at the Olympics.

Dušková injured a knee ligament during a warm-up before training in late October and decided to undergo an operation later.[9][10] As a result, the pair withdrew from their two Grand Prix assignments – the 2017 Cup of China and 2017 Internationaux de France.[9]

Dušková/Bidař returned to competition at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. They qualified for the free skate by placing fifteenth in the short program and went on to finish fourteenth overall.[11] Ranked thirteenth in the short and eleventh in the free, the pair finished eleventh at the 2018 World Championships in Milan, Italy. On 27 April 2018, they announced that they had parted ways.[12][13][14]

2018–2019 Season: Partnership with Abrazhevich[edit]

On 25 September 2018, it was announced that Martin Bidař partnered with Hanna Abrazhevich of Belarus. They finished eighteenth at the 2019 World Championships. On 17 May 2019, they announced the end of their partnership.

2019–2020 season: Debut of Zhuk/Bidař[edit]

On 26 June 2019, Bidař announced a new partnership with Russian pair skater Elizaveta Zhuk. They competed exclusively domestically in their first season together, winning the Czech national title.[15]

2020–2021 season[edit]

With the COVID-19 pandemic limiting international opportunities, Zhuk/Bidař made their debut internationally at the 2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, one of only four pairs on the preliminary entry list.[16] They were fifth in the short, fourth in the free, and fourth overall.[17] They subsequently competed at the 2021 World Championships, placing fifteenth and, in the process, qualifying for a berth for a Czech pair at the 2022 Winter Olympics.[15][18]

2021–2022 season: Beijing Olympics[edit]

In September, the Czech federation officially named Zhuk/Bidař to the Czech Olympic team.[19] They made their debut at the 2021 CS Finlandia Trophy, where they placed ninth. They later competed at a second Challenger event, finishing twelfth at the 2021 CS Warsaw Cup.[15]

Zhuk opted to restyle her name as Jelizaveta Žuková in advance of the Olympics. Žuková/Bidař made their European Championships debut in Tallinn, finishing in twelfth place.[15]

Žuková/Bidař began the 2022 Winter Olympics as the Czech entries in the pairs' short program Olympic team event, where they placed eighth of nine, earning three points for the Czech team.[20] Team Czech Republic did not advance to the next stage of the competition and finished eighth overall.[21] With two falls in the short program of the pairs event, they finished seventeenth and were the first team to miss qualification for the free skate.[22] Žuková sustained an ankle injury in training, as a result of which they did not compete at the 2022 World Championships.[23]

2022–2023 season[edit]

Žuková/Bidař were eighth at the 2022 CS Nebelhorn Trophy to start the season before placing sixth at the 2022 Skate Canada International.[15]

In December 2022, it was announced that the pair had parted ways.[24]

Partnership with Kucianová[edit]

In May 2023, it was announced by the Czech Figure Skating Association that Bidař had teamed up with Barbora Kucianová.[25]

Programs[edit]

With Zhuk[edit]

Season Short program Free skating
2022–2023
[26]
2021–2022
[27]
2020–2021
[28]

With Abrazhevich[edit]

Abrazhevich/Bidař at the 2019 World Championships
Season Short program Free skating
2018–2019
[29]

With Dušková[edit]

Dušková/Bidař at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics
Dušková/Bidař at the 2016–17 Junior Grand Prix Final
Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2017–2018
[1]
  • LA 40
    (Album: Tango Hereje)
    performed by The Mozart Tango Players
    choreo. by Maurizio Margaglio
2016–2017
[30]
  • Mamboleo
    by Mambo Mania
2015–2016
[4]
2014–2015
[31]
2013–2014
[32]
  • Italian Street Song
    by Victor Herbert
  • Waltz
  • Italian Street Song
    by Victor Herbert
2012–2013
2011–2012

Competitive highlights[edit]

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

With Kucianová[edit]

International
Event 23–24
Europeans 13th
CS Finlandia 9th
CS Lombardia Trophy 9th
Bavarian Open 3rd
Challenge Cup 7th
Tayside Trophy 4th
National
Czech Champ. 1st
Four Nationals 3rd
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew

With Zhuk[edit]

International[15]
Event 19–20 20–21 21–22 22–23
Olympics 17th
Worlds 15th WD
Europeans 12th
GP Skate Canada 6th
CS Finlandia Trophy 9th
CS Nebelhorn Trophy 4th 8th
CS Warsaw Cup 12th
Autumn Talents Cup 1st
Challenge Cup 4th
National[15]
Czech Champ. 1st 1st WD
Four Nationals [a] 1st WD
Team events
Olympics 8th T
8th P
  1. ^ Zhuk had not yet been released from Russia to compete internationally, so Zhuk/Bidař competed in a separate, domestic-only (Czech Figure Skating Association hosted the 2020 edition) event. Their scores would have earned them silver if they had competed in the international segment.

With Abrazhevich[edit]

International[33]
Event 18–19
Worlds 18th
Bavarian Open 5th
Ice Mall Cup 4th

With Dušková[edit]

Dušková/Bidař at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Dušková/Bidař at the 2015–16 Junior Grand Prix Final
International[5]
Event 13–14 14–15 15–16 16–17 17–18
Olympics 14th
Worlds 14th 11th
Europeans 7th
CS Nebelhorn 9th
Cup of Nice 1st
International: Junior[5]
Junior Worlds 10th 8th 1st
Youth Olympics 2nd
JGP Final 2nd 2nd
JGP Austria 2nd
JGP Czech Rep. 6th 1st
JGP Estonia 10th
JGP Germany 8th 2nd
JGP Latvia 4th
JGP Slovakia 8th
Ice Challenge 1st J 1st J
NRW Trophy 1st J 2nd J
National[5]
Czech Champ. 1st J 1st J
Team events
Youth Olympics 2nd T
2nd P
Levels: J = Junior
T = Team result; P = Personal result. Medals awarded for team result only.

Single skating[edit]

Event 14–15 15–16
Czech Champ. 3rd J 4th
N = Advanced novice level

Detailed results[edit]

With Kucianová[edit]

2023-24 season
Date Event SP FS Total
February 22–25, 2024 2024 Challenge Cup 7
50.11 		8
88.71 		7
138.82
January 8-14, 2024 2024 European Championships 13
52.49 		14
92.14 		13
144.63
December 14-16, 2023 2024 Four Nationals Championships 2
56.07 		3
95.77 		3
151.84
October 14-15, 2023 2023 Tayside Trophy 2
54.63 		4
90.77 		4
145.40
October 4-8, 2023 2023 CS Finlandia Trophy 8
48.93 		9
83.97 		9
132.90
September 8–10, 2023 2023 CS Lombardia Trophy 10
50.79 		8
91.89 		9
142.65

With Zhuk[edit]

2022–23 season
Date Event SP FS Total
October 28–30, 2022 2022 Skate Canada International 6
52.84 		7
100.66 		6
153.50
September 21–24, 2022 2022 CS Nebelhorn Trophy 9
49.67 		8
97.65 		8
147.32
2021–22 season
Date Event SP FS Total
February 18–19, 2022 2022 Winter Olympics 17
54.64 		—
17
54.64
February 4–7, 2022 2022 Winter Olympics – Team event 8
56.70 		— 8T
January 10–16, 2022 2022 European Championships 15
54.40 		10
105.33 		12
159.73
November 17–20, 2021 2021 CS Warsaw Cup 8
60.88 		12
96.25 		12
157.13
October 27–30, 2021 2021 Autumn Talents Cup 1
46.96 		1
91.44 		1
138.40
October 7–10, 2021 2021 CS Finlandia Trophy 9
48.36 		10
93.90 		9
142.26
2020–21 season
Date Event SP FS Total
March 22–28, 2021 2021 World Championships 16
54.30 		15
102.99 		15
157.29
February 26–28, 2021 2021 Challenge Cup 5
54.13 		4
108.98 		4
163.11
December 10–12, 2020 2021 Four Nationals Championships 1
55.83 		1
87.67 		1
143.50
September 23–26, 2020 2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy 5
51.20 		4
91.83 		4
143.03
2019–20 season
Date Event SP FS Total
December 13–14, 2019 2020 Four Nationals Championships 1
49.12 		1
94.47 		1
143.59

References[edit]

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  2. ^ Kalinics, Michael (19 December 2012). "Jihočech na ledě Martin Bidař si vyjel v Polsku titul mistra republiky". Deník (in Czech).
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  6. ^ Flade, Tatjana (17 March 2016). "Duskova and Bidař win historic gold for Czech Republic". Golden Skate.
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  10. ^ "Nejlepší česká sportovní dvojice má problém, Dušková musí na operaci" [The Czech Republic's best pair has a problem, Dušková needs an operation]. Česká televize (in Czech). 1 November 2017. Archived from the original on 1 November 2017.
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  19. ^ Czech Figure Skating (27 September 2021). "ak ještě jednou i s grafikou!💪 Natálie Taschlerová a Filip Taschler jedou na Olympiádu! Hezky se to čte, že?😍🤩 Tak si to pojďme shrnout – čtyři kategorie, čtyři čeští zástupci.💙🇨🇿" (Instagram). Archived from the original on 2021-12-24.
  20. ^ Slater, Paula (February 4, 2022). "Team USA leads Olympic Figure Skating Team Event". Golden Skate.
  21. ^ Slater, Paula (February 7, 2022). "ROC wins Olympic figure skating team event". Golden Skate.
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