Aaron Van Cleave

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Mari Vartman and Aaron Van Cleave at the exhibition for the 2011 German Championship

Aaron Van Cleave (* 14. March 1987 in Comox , British Columbia , Canada ) is a figure skating - Paarläufer with dual citizenship, the Canadian and the United States. His ancestors come from the Netherlands and Germany , among others .

Aaron Van Cleave started with Mari Vartmann for Germany from 2010 to 2015 . The couple became German champions in 2015, German runners-up three times and 5th at the European Championships in 2012. In 2011 they won the international NRW Trophy competition and in 2010 the Warsaw Cup.

Career

In his early couple season, Van Cleave ran for Canada with Sarah McCoy. The couple also took part in Junior Grand Prix '.

He later started with Ameena Sheikh for the USA. You finished 8th at the 2009 US Junior Championships.

In 2010 Aaron Van Cleave came to Germany and ran with Mari Vartmann. The couple started for Germany, their coach was Knut Schubert , the training location was Berlin . In 2015 the two ended their careers together. Since 2015 he runs together with Tatjana Domracheva from Moscow. The couple will continue to be trained by Knut Schubert in Berlin.

2010/2011

The first international appearance was the Warsaw Cup, which they won immediately.

2011/2012

During training before the freestyle on her European championship debut with Aaron Van Cleave there was a collision between Mari Vartmann and Daniel Wende , as a result of which Mari Vartmann had a severe headache and Daniel Wende's runner was damaged. Vartmann / Van Cleave completed the freestyle on the same day of the accident without errors and finished 5th in the competition. At the subsequent World Championship they reached the final and finished 14th. They qualified for two Grand Prix starts in the 2012/2013 season.

2012/2013

The Vartmann / VanClaeve couple had to withdraw from the Nebelhorn Trophy due to injury. Mari Vartmann injured her foot during the short program. After the injury had healed, Aaron van Cleave injured himself while training for the triple throw. He broke his nose. Although the couple qualified for two Grand Prix, the couple could not start because of this injury. After a long absence from training, both German runners-up in pair skating at the German championship in Hamburg .

2013/2014

The couple started the Olympic season with a third place in the Nebelhorn Trophy and for the first time showed a very clean triple throw in both parts of the program.

2014/2015

Mari Vartman and Aaron van Cleave won the title in figure skating for sports couples for the first time at the 2015 German Championships, which were held in Stuttgart in December 2014. After the 2015 World Cup , the couple split up.

Van Cleave has been training with Tatjana Domracheva since the beginning of September 2015.

Successes / results

Pair skating

with Vartmann
competition 2010-2011 2011–2012 2012-2013 2013-2014 2014-2015
World championships 14th 16. 15th
European championships 5. 8th. 9. 7th
German championship 2. 2. 2. 3. 1.
GP Skate Canada 7th 8th.
GP NHK Trophy 5.
Nebelhorn Trophy 8th. WD 3.
Golden Spin of Zagreb 5.
NRW Trophy 4th 1. 5. 3.
Warsaw Cup 1.
Merano Cup 3.
Coupe de Nice 3.
with Sheikh
competition 2010-2011
American championships 8 y.
J. = juniors
with McCoy
competition 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08
Canadian Championships 6. J. 3rd J.
Junior Grand Prix Norway 10.
Junior Grand Prix USA 6th
J. = juniors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Vartmann / van Cleave pair runner get stuck. sportschau .de, March 26, 2015, accessed on November 7, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b c New partner for van Cleave . In: pirouette . Volume 48, No. 8, 2015, p. 10.

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personal data
SURNAME Cleave, Aaron Van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian, American and German figure skater
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Comox, British Columbia. Canada