Michael Tyllesen

Michael Tyllesen
Michael Tyllesen (2012)
Full name	Michael Johannes Malmin Tyllesen
nation	Denmark
birthday	27th August 1973 (age 47)
place of birth	Frederiksberg ,  Denmark
size	186 cm
Weight	74 kg
Career
discipline	singles
status	resigned
End of career	2000
last change: end of career

Michael Johannes Malmin Tyllesen (born August 27, 1973 in Frederiksberg ) is a former Danish figure skater. He took part in the 1994 and 1998 Winter Olympics for Denmark . In addition, he was able to become a total of six times Danish champion in figure skating.

Career

He qualified for the 1992 World Figure Skating Championships for the first time . At the World Championships in Oakland , USA , he reached the freestyle and took 21st place there. While he started only at the World Championships in 1992 , he started a year later at both the World Championships and the European Championships. At the European Figure Skating Championships in Helsinki in 1993 , he finished sixth as the best Dane. Two months later he improved his result from the previous year at the World Figure Skating Championships in Prague in 1993 and finished the competition in 17th place.

In his home town of Copenhagen he could not quite build on the performances from the previous year at the European figure skating championships , but still took a respectable place with eighth place. He was nominated by the Danmarks Idrætsforbund for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer and was allowed to carry the Dannebrog , the flag of Denmark , into the ski jumping stadium at the opening ceremony . In the Hamar Olympic Amphitheater he came in 13th after the short program on February 17th. On February 19, he finished 12th in the freestyle and 13th place in the final result. After the Olympics, he took part in the 1994 World Figure Skating Championships in the Japanese city of Chiba that same year . As in the previous year, he finished 17th.

In 1995 he started at the European Figure Skating Championships in Dortmund . With the 12th place he finished for the first time in his career at a European championship no place in the top ten. Even at the World Figure Skating Championships in 1995 in the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham , he could not build on the performances from previous years and finished the competition in 25th place. While he had only finished 17th at the European Championships in Sofia in 1996 , he was able to position himself among the top twenty at the 1996 World Championships in the Edmonton Coliseum with 19th place. In 1997 he reached a top ten place at the European Championships in Paris with tenth place. At the 1997 World Championships, which were held in the Patinoire de Malley in Lausanne , he improved to 18th place compared to the previous year. In the fall of 1997 he started at Skate Canada , which was held in Halifax that year and finished third behind the Canadian Elvis Stojko and the Russian Ilja Kulik . This makes him the first Dane to achieve a podium place at this event.

In the Olympic year he finished ninth at the European Championships in Milan and qualified for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano . He was also nominated for his second Olympic Winter Games by the Danmarks Idrætsforbund . In the White Ring , he finished ninth after the short program. Although his freestyle was only enough for eleventh place, he finished ninth overall. After the Olympic Winter Games, he started at the 1998 World Championships in the Target Center in Minneapolis and was able to achieve his best World Cup placement there with 13th place. At the European Figure Skating Championships in 1999 , he was unable to match the previous year's performance and only finished 18th in Prague. At the world championships he could not qualify for the freestyle as 29th. In 2000 he ended his figure skating career.

Web links

• Michael Tyllesen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )