Blake Skjellerup

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Blake Skjellerup Short track
nation New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand
birthday June 13, 1985
place of birth Christchurch
size 173 cm
Weight 65 kg
job college student
Career
National squad since 2002
status active
Placements in the Short Track World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup February 7, 2003
last change: December 2nd, 2008

Blake Skjellerup (born June 13, 1985 in Christchurch ) is a New Zealand short tracker .

Skjellerup has a Danish name as its father is from there. In January 2002 Skjellerup went for the first time internationally at the Junior World Championships in Chuncheon . There, however, he failed everywhere in the first run. A year later in Budapest he reached at least the quarter-finals over 1500 meters. His first appearances in the Short Track World Cup , for which he was one of the few New Zealand short trackers to be nominated for the first time in February 2003, ended similarly early . In the 2003/04 season Skjellerup took part in fifteen World Cups and was always eliminated in the run-up. But at the Junior World Championships 2004 he made it into two quarter-finals, in which he was third. In the 2004/05 World Cup, too, he survived the first run in at least four races, and at the 2005 Winter Universiade he even made it to the semi-finals in the over 1500 meters.

Similar to the previous season, the 2005/06 World Cup ended with further decent placements in the top 20, so that at the end of the season it was thirty-thirtieth overall. Although initially intended, Skjellerup did not take part in the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin , where he would have been the only New Zealand short tracker. For this he started at the World Cup, where he was eliminated in the preliminary stages. Also unsuccessful, he cut off in the 2006/07 season, after all, he achieved 37th place at the World Cup. The 2007/08 season , in which a 26th place was Skjellerup's best result, was unsatisfactory . At the 2008 World Cup he was 29th for it. The 2008/09 Short Track World Cup started well for him , where he surprised him at the third World Cup station in Beijing a 10th place and thus his first top 10 placement succeeded.

Skjellerup currently lives in Calgary most of the time with his friend, a former cross-country skier and University of Calgary student . In contrast to New Zealand, he has much better training conditions there, but he also likes the legislation on same-sex marriage in Canada. On July 4, 2015, he married the designer Saul Carrasco in Hawaii .

Web links

  • Homepage . Blake Skjellerup,accessed August 8, 2014.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Presentation of Skjellerup as an Olympic athlete
  2. ↑ Jim Buzinski : New Zealand Olympian comes out . (No longer available online.) Outsports , May 5, 2010, archived from the original on July 7, 2010 ; accessed on June 17, 2018 (English, original website no longer available).
  3. ^ Ross Forman: Vancouver Olympian comes out - Extended for the Online Edition of Windy City Times , Windy City Times, May 19, 2010
  4. ↑ Exclusive: Experience Blake Skjellerup's Beautiful Island Wedding with the Couple's Personal Photos
personal data
SURNAME Skjellerup, Blake
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand short tracker
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Christchurch