Florent Amodio

Florent Amodio
nation	France
birthday	May 12, 1990
place of birth	Sobral, Ceará, Brazil
size	165 cm
job	college student
Career
discipline	Single run
society	CSG Cergy Pontoise
Trainer	Nikolai Morozov
Former trainers	Claude Thevenard, Fabian Bourzat , Bernard Glesser, Shanetta Folle, Katia Krier, P. Borie
choreographer	Nikolai Morozov
status	resigned
End of career	2016
Medal table
EM medals 1 × 1 × 1 ×
European figure skating championships gold Bern 2011 Men's bronze Sheffield 2012 Men's silver Zagreb 2013 Men's
Personal best
Total points 250.53 EM 2013  Freestyle 163.07 World Cup 2012  Short program 89.82 EM 2013
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 0 0 0  Grand Prix competitions 0 1 2
last change: April 9, 2016

Florent Amodio (born May 12, 1990 in Sobral , Ceará , Brazil ) is a French figure skater who starts in a single run . He is the European champion of 2011 .

Career

Amodio was born in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil, but was adopted as a child by a French couple. He grew up in Fremainville , Val-d'Oise and is a Brazilian and French citizen.

He started figure skating at the age of four and was trained by Bernard Glessner until May 2010 . At twelve he was diagnosed with Osgood-Schlatter's disease . As a result, he was unable to train for 18 months. In 2004 he came back and represented France internationally for the first time.

In 2008 he became French runner-up and a year later, in the absence of Brian Joubert , French champion for the first time . Thereby he represented France together with Joubert at the Olympic Games in Vancouver . He reached twelfth place on his Olympic debut. In his world championship debut, he finished 15th in Turin . In May 2010 Amodio moved to coach Nikolai Morosow .

At his first European Championship participation , Florent Amodio became European Champion straight away in 2011 in Bern . He finished the World Championship in Moscow in seventh place.

After a weak start to the season, Amodio managed to win the bronze medal at the 2012 European Championships in Sheffield . At the World Cup in Nice , Amodio showed a strong performance in front of a home crowd. He opened his freestyle with a quadruple salchow . In the end, he finished fifth in a strong field and thus his best World Cup placement. He also improved his personal bests in each segment and overall performance.

At the 2013 European Championships in Zagreb , Amodio led after the short program with a personal best of 89.82 points. In the freestyle he was two quadruple jumps for the first time. In the end he won the silver medal behind the Spaniard Javier Fernández . At the World Cup , he was unable to build on these achievements and finished twelfth.

In 2016 Amodio ended his career by participating in the European Championships in Bratislava . In his last competition he once again took a remarkable fourth place.

Results

Championship / year	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
winter Olympics					12.				18th
World championships					15th	7th	5.	12.	Z	9.
European championships						1.	3.	2.	13.	9.	4th
World Team Trophy				4th			4th
French championships	11.	7th	4th	2.	1.	2.	2.	1.	1.	1.	2.
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Grand Prix competition / season	05/06	06/07	07/08	08/09	09/10	10/11	11/12	12/13	13/14	14/15	15/16
Grand Prix Final						6th
Skate America					4th		9.				11.
Skate Canada								4th		6th
NHK Trophy						3.
Cup of Russia					9.
Eric Bompard Trophy						2.	5.	3.	7th	11.	Z

Z = resigned

Web links

Commons : Florent Amodio  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Florent Amodio in the database of the International Skating Union (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "It was an unbelievable liberation" . In: pirouette . Volume 49, No. 2, 2016, p. 5.