Bruno Massot

Bruno Massot
nation	Germany France (until 2014)
birthday	28th January 1989 (age 31)
place of birth	Caen, France
size	184 cm
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	Aljona Savchenko (since 2015)
Former partner	Darja Popowa , Anne-Laure Letscher , Camille Foucher
Trainer	Alexander König , Jean-François Ballester
Former trainers	Ingo Steuer
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 1 × 1 × EM medals 0 × 2 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold Pyeongchang 2018 Couples  World figure skating championships bronze Boston 2016 Couples silver Helsinki 2017 Couples gold Milan 2018 Couples  European figure skating championships silver Bratislava 2016 Couples silver Ostrava 2017 Couples
Personal best
Total points 245.84 World Cup 2018  Freestyle 162.86 World Cup 2018  Short program 82.98 World Cup 2018
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 1 0 0  Grand Prix competitions 3 1 0
last change: March 22, 2018 bold font = world record

Aljona Savchenko and Bruno Massot, 2017

Bruno Massot (born January 28, 1989 in Caen ) is a French - German figure skater who starts in pair skating . He and Aljona Savchenko became Olympic champion for Germany at the 2018 Olympic Games and world champion in the same year.

Career

In 2012 Massot became French champion with his then partner Darja Popowa . He started training with Aljona Savchenko in April 2014 and moved to Chemnitz .

On September 28, 2014, Massot sealed his move to the German Ice Skating Union . From the following month he trained with Savchenko in Oberstdorf under Alexander König . It was only released in November 2015 in return for a payment of 30,000 euros to the French Ice Sports Federation .

The first joint competition between Massots and Savchenkos ended with a victory at the Tallinn Trophy on November 19, 2015. In December 2015 they became German champions for the first time . The following year the duo became vice European champions for the first time . Massot and Savchenko also won the silver medal for Germany at the 2017 World Championships and 2017 European Championships .

In November 2017, Massot received German citizenship after passing the language test required for naturalization on the third attempt, and was henceforth entitled to compete in the Olympic Games with his partner . After winning the Grand Prix final in December 2017, Savchenko and Massot went to the 2018 Olympic Games as gold candidates . Above all, Savchenko formulated the goal of winning the Olympic gold medal in advance, also publicly, after she had missed this title in the last two events with her previous partner Robin Szolkowy .

At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , the couple initially competed in a team . After Savchenko fell in the triple throw flip, both took third place in the short program, and the team came in seventh in the final score. In the pair run five days later, Savchenko and Massot were initially in fourth place after the short program because of a mistake by Massot. Massot jumped the Salchow only twice instead of three times, which meant a loss of more than four points and a gap of over five points on the leading Chinese Sui Wenjing and Han Cong . The next day, however, Savchenko and Massot shone with a faultless freestyle, which was rated with a new world record number of 159.31 points. After the competition that followed showed weaknesses this time, Savchenko and Massot became Olympic champions with this performance and less than half a point ahead.

Results

Pair skating

(with Aljona Savchenko )

Championship / year	2016	2017	2018
winter Olympics			1.
World championships	3.	2.	1.
European championships	2.	2.
German championships	1.	aK	1.
Grand Prix competition / season	2015/16	2016/17	2017/18
Grand Prix Final			1.
Skate America			1.
Skate Canada			2.
Cup of Russia		1.
Eric Bompard Trophy		1.

aK = out of competition

(with Darja Popowa )

Championship / year	2012	2013	2014
World championships			15th
European championships	8th.	7th	11.
French championships	1.	2.

Web links

Commons : Bruno Massot  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Aljona Savchenko / Bruno Massot in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
• Darja Popowa / Bruno Massot in the database of the International Skating Union (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Savchenko / Massot for Germany. sport1 , September 29, 2014, accessed October 16, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Savchenko / Massot will start for Germany in the future. Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , September 29, 2014, archived from the original on October 6, 2014 ; accessed on October 16, 2015 . 
3. ^ World champion in new hands Augsburger Allgemeine, October 18, 2014.
4. ↑ 30,000 euros for a pair of skiers. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 10, 2015, accessed on November 21, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Challenger Series Tallinn Trophy 2015 Pairs Result. (No longer available online.) Tallinntrophy.eu, November 19, 2015, archived from the original on November 21, 2015 ; accessed on November 21, 2015 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Savchenko / Massot get first title ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
7. ↑ Massot clears the last hurdle to take part in the Olympics. In: sportschau.de. November 23, 2017, accessed February 15, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Naturalization of Massot perfect. In: spox.com. November 30, 2017. Retrieved February 15, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Savchenko / Massot show Olympic maturity with dream freestyle. (No longer available online.) In: shz.de. December 10, 2017, archived from the original on February 16, 2018 ; accessed on February 15, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Benedict Paetzholdt: For Savchenko and Massot only one gold. In: ksta.de. February 12, 2018, accessed February 15, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Benedikt Paetzholdt: The very special chemistry for pair skating . In: fr.de. February 13, 2018, accessed February 15, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Savchenko and Massot start with a fall. In: faz.net. February 9, 2018, accessed February 15, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Figure skating team lands in seventh place. In: rp-online.de. February 11, 2018, accessed February 15, 2018 . 
14. ↑ Barbara Klimke: "I've trained for four years and I'm doing such a stupid thing". In: sueddeutsche.de. February 14, 2018, accessed February 15, 2018 . 
15. ↑ Savchenko / Massot far from gold. In: sportschau.de. February 14, 2018, accessed February 15, 2018 . 
16. ↑ Savchenko / Massot with dream free gold. In: sportschau.de. February 15, 2018, accessed February 15, 2018 . 
17. ↑ Christof Siemes: Only a wonder of the world could help. In: zeit.de. February 15, 2018, accessed February 15, 2018 .