Kevin van der Perren
Kevin van der Perren | |||||||||||||
nation | Belgium | ||||||||||||
birthday | August 6, 1982 | ||||||||||||
place of birth | Ninove | ||||||||||||
size | 177 cm | ||||||||||||
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discipline | Single run | ||||||||||||
society | KSC Heuvelkouter, Liedekerke | ||||||||||||
Trainer | Silvie De Rijcke, Juri Bureiko, Vera Vandecaveye, Nikolai Morosow, L. van Troyen, H. Beelaert |
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choreographer | Yuri Bureiko | ||||||||||||
status | resigned | ||||||||||||
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Kevin van der Perren (born August 6, 1982 in Ninove ) is a former Belgian figure skater who started in a single run .
Career
When a figure skating show came to his hometown, the desire to become a figure skater stuck in van der Perren's mind. Although his parents would have preferred to see him as a soccer player and he was teased by classmates, he did not give up his dream: However, he started training quite late, at the age of ten. He also devoted himself to swimming, which he only gave up after his first world championship in figure skating.
At the Junior World Championships in 2002 van der Perren won the silver medal behind Daisuke Takahashi . He was the first runner in the world to show a combination of three triple jumps ( Salchow - Toeloop - Rittberger ). He kept this combination in his freestyle program until the end of the 2003/04 season.
Van der Perren is the first Belgian to show a quadruple jump in the competition - a quadruple toe loop.
A hip injury sustained after the 2006 Winter Olympics forced him to cancel the 2006 World Cup. Also at the European Championships in 2007 he considered not to start, but finally did it and won the bronze medal with 0.07 points ahead of Sergei Davydov . This made him the first Belgian individual runner since Fernand Leemans in 1947 to win a medal at the European Championships .
At the 2008 World Cup , he achieved 6th place, his best result at a World Cup . Before the 2008/09 season he had to undergo another hip operation. Despite the pain, he still won the bronze medal at the 2009 European Championships .
In the 2009/2010 season van der Perren had to struggle with problems again and again. At the European Championships he was only 11th and in his third Olympic Games 17th, but it went up again at the World Cup . After a strong freestyle, in which he was the first figure skater ever to show a quad-triple-triple toe-loop combination, he finished eighth. Van der Perren later announced that he had never tried this combination, followed by a triple axel, in training and that he had run in honor of his grandfather, who had died the night before the freestyle.
At the 2011 European Championships in Bern , van der Perren took fourth place. At the World Cup , however, it was only enough for him to finish 17th.
In autumn 2011 van der Perren won the silver medal at the Grand Prix competition Skate America , where he even won the freestyle. He announced that he wanted to contest the European Championship as the last competition of his career. Due to a wrist injury, however, he had to give up before the freestyle. He then decided to take part in the 2012 World Cup in Nice . He had also contested his first world championship in Nice in 2000. After a faulty short program, van der Perren showed one of his best career achievements in his freestyle. He made two quadruple jumps, a triple axel and seven other triple jumps, three of which were in a combination. No figure skater had shown this at a world championship before him. After the competition van der Perren ended his competitive career and now focuses on his career as a figure skating coach.
Others
At the Winter Olympics in Turin in 2006 and Vancouver in 2010 , van der Perren was his country's flag bearer. He has been married to British figure skater Jenna McCorkell since 2008 .
Van der Perren is one of the figure skaters who were trained in the spirit of the old scoring system , but who also competed under the new scoring system. The focus of his training was always on the jumps and jump combinations, which were also his great strength. He could no longer learn the components that were given a lot of weight in the new scoring system, such as transitions and step sequences. He couldn't even practice pirouettes because in his training hall in Belgium the ice in the middle was 27 centimeters higher than at the edge.
Results
Championship / year | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | |
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winter Olympics | 12. | 9. | 17th | |||||||||||
World championships | 31. | 33. | 14th | 19th | 14th | 8th. | 6th | 14th | 8th. | 17th | 15th | |||
European championships | 28. | 23. | 13. | 10. | 11. | 6th | 7th | 3. | 5. | 3. | 11. | 4th | Z | |
Junior World Championships | 26th | 16. | 2. | |||||||||||
Belgian championships | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. | ||||||
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Grand Prix competition / season | 99/00 | 00/01 | 01/02 | 02/03 | 03/04 | 04/05 | 05/06 | 06/07 | 07/08 | 08/09 | 09/10 | 10/11 | 11/12 | |
Grand Prix Final | 4th | 6th | ||||||||||||
Skate America | 4th | 4th | 6th | 2. | ||||||||||
Skate Canada | 5. | 5. | 2. | 11. | ||||||||||
Cup of Russia | 6th | 5. | ||||||||||||
Eric Bompard Trophy | 2. | 4th | ||||||||||||
NHK Trophy | 5. | 6th | 8th. |
Web links
- Official website (English)
- Kevin van der Perren in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
- Kevin van der Perren in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ goldenskate.com ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120402&content_id=27832816&vkey=ice_news
- ↑ http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120402&content_id=27832816&vkey=ice_news
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SURNAME | Perren, Kevin van der |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian figure skater |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1982 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ninove , Belgium |