Mirko Müller
Mirko Müller 
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| birthday | November 12, 1974 | ||||||||||||
| place of birth | Löbau | ||||||||||||
| size | 178 cm | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 72 kg | ||||||||||||
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| discipline | Pair skating | ||||||||||||
| Partner | Jekaterina Silnitzkaja, Emilie Gras, Peggy Schwarz, Sarah Jentgens |
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| society | SC Berlin | ||||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||||
| End of career | 2002 | ||||||||||||
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Mirko Müller (born November 12, 1974 in Löbau ) is a German figure skater who started in pair skating .
Life
Mirko Müller started ice skating at the age of four. First he started for SC Berlin . He was an individual runner until 1992 and went to sports school. He then switched to pair skating . From 1994 to 1995 he ran with the Russian Jekaterina Silnitzkaja , who had previously started with Marno Kreft . From 1995 to 2002 Mirko Müller was a member of the Bundeswehr sports promotion group .
From 1995 to 1996 he found a figure skating partner in the French Emilie Gras . From 1996 to 2000, Mirko Müller ran with Peggy Schwarz , who had previously separated from Alexander König because of a baby break . With Peggy Schwarz, Mirko Müller had his greatest international success when he won the bronze medal at the 1998 World Cup . The couple's coach was Knut Schubert . The choreographer was the American Diana Goolsbey .
Due to injury and the associated jumping weakness, Peggy Schwarz ended her figure skating career in 2000. In 2000, Mirko Müller was looking for a new partner and found her in Sarah Jentgens . Trained by Knut Schubert in Berlin, the couple refrained from participating in major competitions in the 2000/01 season. In the 2002 Olympic season Jentgens / Müller won the national title. The first and last international competition was the European Championships in Lausanne , where the couple gave up after the short program due to Müller's illness and thus missed the qualification for the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . Thereupon Müller ended his figure skating career.
In 2002 Mirko Müller began studying business informatics at the FHTW Berlin .
He is married to his former choreographer Diana Goolsbey . They live in Raleigh (North Carolina) with their son Maximilian, who was born in 1999 . There Mirko Müller-Goolsbey works as a trainer in the Central Carolina Skating Club and in the High Performance Skating Academy.
Results
Pair skating
(unless otherwise stated, with Peggy Schwarz )
| Competition / year | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 |
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| winter Olympics | 9. | ||||||||
| World championships | 10. | 3. | 8th. | 8th. | |||||
| European championships | 10. * | 6th | 5. | 4th | 4th | Z *** | |||
| German championships | 4. * | 2. * | 3. ** | 2. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1.*** |
- Z = withdrawn / * with Jekaterina Silnitzkaja , ** with Emilie Gras , *** with Sarah Jentgens
Single run
| Competition / year | 1991 | 1992 |
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| Junior World Championships | 15th | |
| German championships | 9. |
Web links
- Mirko Müller in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Photo page in the figure skating corner
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| SURNAME | Müller, Mirko |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German figure skater |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Löbau , Upper Lusatia , GDR |