Olivier Schoenfelder

Olivier Schoenfelder
nation	France
birthday	November 30, 1977
place of birth	Belfort, Franche-Comté
size	184 cm
Career
discipline	Ice dance
Partner	Isabelle Delobel
Former partner	Emeline Girod
society	CSG Lyon
Trainer	Muriel Zazoui, Romain Haguenauer, Tatjana Tarassowa, Lydie Bontemps
status	resigned
End of career	2010
Medal table
World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 0 × EM medals 1 × 1 × 1 ×
World figure skating championships gold Gothenburg 2008 Ice dance  European figure skating championships bronze Turin 2005 Ice dance gold Warsaw 2007 Ice dance silver Zagreb 2008 Ice dance
Personal best
Total points 212.94 World Cup 2008  Freestyle 110.39 World Cup 2005  Original dance 67.25 World Cup 2008  Compulsory dance 41.25 EM 2008
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 1 0 1  Grand Prix competitions 4th 5 7th

Olivier Schoenfelder (born November 30, 1977 in Belfort , Franche-Comté ) is a former French figure skater who started in ice dancing .

Schoenfelder started ice skating at the age of seven. His ice dance partner was Isabelle Delobel . They met at a training camp in 1990, following the advice of former ice dance world champions Irina Moissejewa and Andrei Minenkow . Delobel and Schoenfelder were trained in Lyon by Muriel Zazoui and Romain Haguenauer .

The French champions from 2003 to 2008 took part in all world championships in the period from 1998 to 2008 and, with the exception of 2002, also in all European championships . At European Championships they won the bronze medal in 2005 and the silver medal in 2008 . In 2007 they became European champions in Warsaw . They won a medal at world championships. In Gothenburg they won the gold medal at their last World Cup in 2008. In the 2008/2009 season they won the Grand Prix finals . Delobel and Schoenfelder took part in three Olympic Games . In 2002 they were sixteenth, in 2006 fourth and 2010 sixth. In 2010, despite injuries and Delobel's pregnancy, they returned for the Olympic Games, after which they announced their final retirement from competitive sports.

Schoenfelder studied journalism and worked a few times as a television commentator. In 2005 he married Isabelle Pécheur. The couple had a son in 2006. Schoenfelder works as a trainer in Lyon.

Results

Ice dance

(with Isabelle Delobel )

Competition / year	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
winter Olympics								16.				4th				6th
World championships				18th	14th	11.	13.	12.	9.	6th	4th	5.	4th	1.
European championships				15th	12.	9.	10.		7th	4th	3.	4th	1.	2.
Junior World Championships	4th	2.
French championships	3rd J	1st J	4th	4th	3.	2.	2.		1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.
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Grand Prix competition / season	94/95	95/96	96/97	97/98	98/99	99/00	00/01	01/02	02/03	03/04	04/05	05/06	06/07	07/08	08/09	09/10
Grand Prix Final										5.	6th	6th	4th	3.	1.
Skate America										3.		2.			1.
Skate Canada					7th	3.		5.			4th
Cup of Russia													3.
Eric Bompard Trophy			6th	7th	7th	7th	5.	5.	2.	3.	3.	2.	2.	1.	1.
Bofrost Cup on Ice							5.				2.
NHK Trophy				7th					4th		3.			1.
Cup of China										3.

• J = juniors

Schoenfelder and Delobel at the EM 2007

Web links

Commons : Olivier Schoenfelder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
• Official website of the ice dancing couple