Gwendal Peizerat
Gwendal Peizerat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
nation | France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | April 21, 1972 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Bron, Rhône-Alpes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 173 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 66 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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discipline | Ice dance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Partner | Marina Anissina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Former partner | Marina Morel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trainer | Muriel Boucher-Zazoui | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
End of career | 2002 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gwendal Peizerat (born April 21, 1972 in Bron , Rhône-Alpes ) is a former French figure skater who started in ice dancing .
Career
Gwendal Peizerat is the son of a functionary of the French figure skating federation. He and his sister, two years older than him, began figure skating at the age of four. He began to dance under the guidance of Murielle Boucher-Zazoui , who trained him until the end of his career.
Peizerat's first partner was Marina Morel , with whom he won the bronze medal at the 1990 Junior World Championships and the silver medal the following year.
After Morel had ended her career in 1992, Peizerat chose Marina Anissina as her new ice dance partner. Shortly before, he had received a letter from the Russian ice dancer and junior world champion after she had seen him on video.
Anissina and Peizerat started for the CSG Lyon and represented France. She urged Peizerat to concentrate fully on ice dancing and to postpone his training, which he had spent half his time on. Their first year together turned out to be problematic and almost ended their collaboration. Muriel Boucher-Zazoui found the interaction between the two to be very promising from the start. "They're like fire and ice," she commented.
In 1994 Anissina and Peizerat made their debut at world and European championships . In 1998 they won their first medals. They won the bronze medal at the European Championships and the Olympic Games and the silver medal at the World Championships . Until the end of their career in 2002, they always reached the podium. In 1999 they became vice European champion and again vice world champion behind the Russians Anselika Krylova and Oleg Ovsjannikow . When they finished their careers, the Italians Barbara Fusar-Poli and Maurizio Margaglio became their first challengers. In 2000, Anissina and Peizerat did not lose any competition in which they participated. They won the Trophée Lalique and the NHK Trophy as well as the Grand Prix final . They became European champions in Vienna and world champions in Nice , always ahead of the Italians. In the following year the tide turned and the French had to be content with the silver medal behind Fusar-Poli and Margaglio at both the European and World Championships . In 2002 Annisina and Peizerat managed to get their revenge by winning the European Championship . At the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City , Annisina and Peizerat became the first French ice dancing couple to win Olympic gold. In the freestyle they were five to four votes ahead of the Russians Irina Lobacheva and Ilja Awerbuch .
After their Olympic victory, Anissina and Peizerat resigned from competitive sports. They ran together in various ice revues and also worked as choreographers. Peizerat is also a commentator for the sports channel Eurosport .
He is committed to the French Socialist Party .
Results
Ice dance
(with Marina Anissina )
Competition / year | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 |
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winter Olympics | 3. | 1. | |||||||
World championships | 10. | 6th | 4th | 5. | 2. | 2. | 1. | 2. | |
European championships | 12. | 5. | 4th | 4th | 3. | 2. | 1. | 2. | 1. |
French championships | 2. | 2. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. | |
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Grand Prix competition / season | 93/94 | 94/95 | 95/96 | 96/97 | 97/98 | 98/99 | 99/00 | 00/01 | 01/02 |
Grand Prix Final | 3. | 3. | 2. | 1. | 2. | ||||
Skate America | 2. | 1. | |||||||
Skate Canada | 2. | 2. | 1. | ||||||
Trophée Lalique | 3. | 1. | 2. | 1. | 2. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. |
Sparkassen Cup | 1. | 2. | |||||||
NHK Trophy | 5. | 3. | 1. | 2. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. |
(with Marina Morel )
Competition / year | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 |
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European championships | 12. | |||
Junior World Championships | 3. | 2. |
Awards
- 1998: Chevalier de l'Ordre National du mérite
- 2003: Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur
Web links
- Anissina / Peizerat in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
- Gwendal Peizerat in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Anissina / Peizerat at figureskating.online.fr
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2000/04/02/93196-Marina-a-choisi-Gwendal-sur-une-video.html
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from November 15, 2011 on WebCite ) 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.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from November 15, 2011 on WebCite ) 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.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from November 15, 2011 on WebCite ) 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.
- ↑ http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2000/04/02/93196-Marina-a-choisi-Gwendal-sur-une-video.html
- ↑ Give me gold - France's Anissinal, Peizerat claim ice dancing event ( Memento from May 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
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SURNAME | Peizerat, Gwendal |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French figure skater |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1972 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bron |