Kevin van der Perren

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kevin van der Perren figure skating
Kevin van der Perren at the 2009 European Championships
nation BelgiumBelgium Belgium
birthday August 6, 1982
place of birth Ninove
size 177 cm
Career
discipline Single run
society KSC Heuvelkouter, Liedekerke
Trainer Silvie De Rijcke,
Juri Bureiko,
Vera Vandecaveye,
Nikolai Morosow,
L. van Troyen,
H. Beelaert
choreographer Yuri Bureiko
status resigned
Medal table
EM medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 2 × bronze
ISU European figure skating championships
bronze Warsaw 2007 Men's
bronze Helsinki 2009 Men's
Personal best
 Total points 219.36 EM 2009
 Freestyle 147.66 World Cup 2012
 Short program 75.80 EM 2009
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Grand Prix Final 0 0 0
 Grand Prix competitions 0 3 0
 

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.

Van der Perren at the 2009 European Championships

Results

Championship / year 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
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.
-
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

Commons : Kevin Van der Perren  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.goldenskate.com
  2. ↑ http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120402&content_id=27832816&vkey=ice_news
  3. ↑ http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120402&content_id=27832816&vkey=ice_news
personal data
SURNAME Perren, Kevin van der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian figure skater
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Ninove , Belgium