Nathalie Péchalat
Nathalie Péchalat 
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| Full name | Nathalie Péchalat | |||||||||||||||
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| birthday | December 22, 1983 | |||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Rouen, Normandy | |||||||||||||||
| size | 163 cm | |||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Ice dance | |||||||||||||||
| Partner | Fabian Bourzat | |||||||||||||||
| Former partner | Julien Deheinzelin, Michael Zenezini |
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| society | Castres SG | |||||||||||||||
| Trainer | Alexander Schulin, Oleg Volkov, Maxim Staviski |
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| choreographer | Alexander Schulin, Romain Haguenauer, Anne Sophie Druet |
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| status | active | |||||||||||||||
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| last change: December 2nd, 2012 | ||||||||||||||||
Nathalie Péchalat (born December 22, 1983 in Rouen , Normandy ) is a French figure skater who starts in ice dancing .
Life
Péchalat's ice dance partner has been Fabian Bourzat since 2000 . The ice dance couple was brought together by former ice dancer and trainer Muriel Zazoui and is now trained by Alexander Schulin and Oleg Volkov .
Péchalat and Bourzat debuted at World Championships in 2004 , European Championships in 2005 and Olympic Games in 2006 . In 2008 they made it into the top ten at World and European Championships for the first time . They also succeeded in doing this at their second Olympic Games in 2010 .
After two fourth places at European championships, Péchalat and Bourzat became European champions in Bern in 2011 and thus won their first medal at world and European championships. At the World Championships in Moscow , the French champions of 2009 and 2011 were in third place after the short dance, a fall by Bourzat in her previously flawless freestyle cost her the bronze medal in the end. As in the previous year, they finished fourth. Nevertheless, the 2010/11 season was the couple's most successful to date. They also won both of the Grand Prix competitions in which they competed, namely the Eric Bompard Trophy and the Cup of China , and achieved the silver medal in the Grand Prix final .
At the 2012 European Championships in Sheffield , Péchalat and Bourzat defended their title. At the 2012 World Cup in Nice , the French won their long-awaited world championship medal in front of their home crowd in the ninth attempt with bronze.
In 2014 she took part in the fifth season of the French dance show Danse avec les stars and reached second place.
On March 14, 2020, Péchalat was elected President of the French National Ice Sports Federation at an extraordinary meeting . She is the first woman in this position.
She has a daughter with the film actor Jean Dujardin .
Results
Ice dance
(with Fabian Bourzat )
| Championship / year | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
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| winter Olympics | 18th | 7th | 4th | |||||||||||
| World championships | 20th | 19th | 15th | 12. | 7th | 5. | 4th | 4th | 3. | 6th | ||||
| European championships | 12. | 11. | 5. | 4th | 4th | 1. | 1. | WD | ||||||
| Junior World Championships | 8th. | 6th | ||||||||||||
| French championships | 3. | 3. | 2. | 2. | 2. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. | ||||
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| Grand Prix competition / season | 00/01 | 01/02 | 02/03 | 03/04 | 04/05 | 05/06 | 06/07 | 07/08 | 08/09 | 09/10 | 10/11 | 11/12 | 12/13 | 13/14 |
| Grand Prix Final | 6th | 3. | 2. | 3. | 3. | 3. | ||||||||
| Skate America | 3. | 2. | 2. | |||||||||||
| Skate Canada | 11. | 3. | 2. | WD | ||||||||||
| Cup of Russia | 5. | 2. | ||||||||||||
| Cup of China | 7th | 7th | 1. | 1. | 1. | |||||||||
| NHK Trophy | 2. | |||||||||||||
| Eric Bompard Trophy | 9. | 8th. | 8th. | 5. | 7th | 2. | 1. | 2. | 1. | 3. | ||||
Web links
- Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
- Nathalie Péchalat in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nathalie Péchalat est arrivée deuxième de l'émission Danse avec les stars cette année , www.puretrend.com
- ^ A b Klaus-Reinhold Kany: Péchalat new French association president . In: pirouette . Volume 53, No. 4, 2020, p. 7.
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| SURNAME | Péchalat, Nathalie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French figure skater |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rouen |