Charlie White

Charlie White
nation	United States
birthday	October 24, 1987
place of birth	Royal Oak, Michigan
size	175 cm
Career
discipline	Ice dance
Partner	Meryl Davis
society	Detroit Skating Club
Trainer	Igor Schpilband, Marina Sujewa
choreographer	Igor Schpilband, Marina Sujewa
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 1 × 1 × World Cup medals 2 × 2 × 0 × VKM medals 3 × 2 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver Vancouver 2010 Ice dance gold Sochi 2014 Ice dance bronze Sochi 2014 team  World figure skating championships silver Turin 2010 Ice dance gold Moscow 2011 Ice dance silver Nice 2012 Ice dance gold London (Ontario) 2013 Ice dance Four continents championships silver Goyang 2008 Ice dance gold Vancouver 2009 Ice dance gold Taipei 2011 Ice dance silver Colorado Springs 2012 Ice dance gold Osaka 2013 Ice dance
Personal best
Total points 195.52 Olympic Games 2014  Freestyle 116.63 Olympic Games 2014  Short program 78.89 Olympic Games 2014
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 4th 0 1  Grand Prix competitions 10 0 2
last change: March 16, 2013 bold font = world record

Charlie White (born October 24, 1987 in Royal Oak , Michigan ) is an American figure skater who starts in ice dancing . At the 2014 Winter Olympics , he was Olympic champion in ice dancing.

Career

His ice dance partner has been Meryl Davis since 1997 . The ice dance couple was brought together by trainer Seth Chafetz and is training today with Igor Schpilband and Marina Sujewa .

In 2006 Davis and White won the bronze medal at the Junior World Championships in Ljubljana as reigning US junior champions . This happened when their future main competitors Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir from Canada won.

In 2007, Davis and White made their debut in World and Four Continents Championships . They reached fourth and seventh place respectively.

They won their first medal at the four continents championships in 2008 in Goyang, South Korea, with silver behind Virtue and Moir.

At the Four Continents Championship in Vancouver in 2009 , to which Davis and White competed for the first time as reigning US senior champions , they defeated their Canadian competitors and thus won their first title at a major international championship.

2009/10 season

The 2009/10 Olympic season got off to a promising start for the Americans. They won both Grand Prix competitions in which they competed and, for the first time, the Grand Prix final . They became US champions again . For the first time, they were able to defeat their strongest national competitors, the established Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto . At their first Olympic Games in Vancouver , Davis and White won the silver medal behind Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir . The same order emerged at the post-Olympic World Cup in Turin , where Davis and White were able to win their first World Cup medal.

2010/11 season

In the 2010/11 season, Davis and White won all of the competitions they competed in. They won both Grand Prix competitions and for the second time in a row at the Grand Prix final . For the third time in a row they were US ice dance champions . In Taipei they won their second gold medal at the Four Continents Championships . After the short dance, they were still in second place behind Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir , but they could no longer compete in the freestyle due to injury. At the World Championships in Moscow , after the short dance, they were again behind their Canadian competitors, who set a new world record in this segment. In the freestyle, the tide turned and Davis / White were able to win their first title at world championships with a world record in this segment and overall performance. It was the first ever gold medal at a world championship for an American ice dance couple.

2011/12 season

In the 2011/12 season, Davis and White started again with wins in both Grand Prix competitions . For the third time in a row, they also won the Grand Prix final , this time ahead of their main competitors Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir . In the Four Continents Championship and the World Championship , however, the judges saw the Canadians just ahead. Davis and White ran the freestyle this season to Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss .

Olympic Games 2014

At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , Davis won the gold medal in ice dancing with White and also took third place with the team. With 195.52 points (78.89 points in the short program / 116.63 points in the freestyle) they were able to fight for the Olympic victory in ice dancing. In the team competition they achieved 75.98 points in the short program and 114.34 points in the subsequent freestyle. This enabled them to deliver the best performance there too.

Results

Ice dance

(with Meryl Davis )

Championship / year	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
winter Olympics								2.				1.
Olympic Winter Games (team)												3.
World championships					7th	6th	4th	2.	1.	2.	1.
Four continents championships					4th	2.	1.		1.	2.	1.
World Team Trophy										2.
Junior World Championships		13.		3.
American championships	7th J	2nd J		1st J	3.	2.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.
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Grand Prix competition / season	02/03	03/04	04/05	05/06	06/07	07/08	08/09	09/10	10/11	11/12	12/13	13/14
Grand Prix Final							3.	1.	1.	1.	1.
Skate America						4th			1.	1.	1.
Skate Canada					4th		1.
Cup of Russia							3.	1.		1.
NHK Trophy					4th			1.	1.
Eric Bompard Trophy						3.

• J = juniors

Web links

Commons : Charlie White  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Web presence of the ice dance couple Davis / White ( Memento from March 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
• Meryl Davis / Charlie White in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
• Charlie White in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ice dance ( Memento from April 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Figure skating results ( Memento from April 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive )