Gwendal Peizerat

Gwendal Peizerat
Gwendal Peizerat at the 58th Cannes Film Festival (2005)
nation	France
birthday	April 21, 1972
place of birth	Bron, Rhône-Alpes
size	173 cm
Weight	66 kg
Career
discipline	Ice dance
Partner	Marina Anissina
Former partner	Marina Morel
Trainer	Muriel Boucher-Zazoui
status	resigned
End of career	2002
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 1 × 3 × 0 × EM medals 2 × 2 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze Nagano 1998 Ice dance gold Salt Lake City 2002 Ice dance  World figure skating championships silver Minneapolis 1998 Ice dance silver Helsinki 1999 Ice dance gold Nice 2000 Ice dance silver Vancouver 2001 Ice dance  European figure skating championships bronze Milan 1998 Ice dance silver Prague 1999 Ice dance gold Vienna 2000 Ice dance silver Bratislava 2001 Ice dance gold Lausanne 2002 Ice dance

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 & Peizerat

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
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
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

1. ↑ http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2000/04/02/93196-Marina-a-choisi-Gwendal-sur-une-video.html
2. ↑ 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. 
3. ↑ 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. 
4. ↑ 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. 
5. ↑ http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2000/04/02/93196-Marina-a-choisi-Gwendal-sur-une-video.html
6. ↑ Give me gold - France's Anissinal, Peizerat claim ice dancing event ( Memento from May 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive )