Patrick Chan

Patrick Chan
nation	Canada
birthday	December 31, 1990
place of birth	Ottawa, Ontario
size	171 cm
Career
society	Granite Club Toronto
Trainer	Kathy Johnson (Former Trainers: Christy Krall , Lori Nichol , Donald Laws , Ellen Burka , Shin Amano , Osborne Colson , Mei Yang)
choreographer	David Wilson (Former Choreographers: Lori Nichol , Kurt Browning , Osborne Colson , Mark Hurd)
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 2 × 0 × World Cup medals 3 × 2 × 0 × VKM medals 3 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver Sochi 2014 Men's silver Sochi 2014 team gold Pyeongchang 2018 team  World figure skating championships silver Los Angeles 2009 Men's silver Turin 2010 Men's gold Moscow 2011 Men's gold Nice 2012 Men's gold London 2013 Men's Four continents championships gold Vancouver 2009 Men's gold Colorado Springs 2012 Men's gold Taipei 2016 Men's
Personal best
Total points 295.27 TEB 2013  Freestyle 203.99 VKK 2016  Short program 102.13 World Cup 2017
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 2 1 1  Grand Prix competitions 12 2 1
last change: December 12, 2016

Patrick Chan (born December 31, 1990 in Ottawa , Ontario ) is a Canadian figure skater who starts in a single run . He is the world champion of 2011 , 2012 and 2013 and the four continents champion of 2009, 2012 and 2016.

Career

Origin and first successes

Patrick Chan at the 2005 Junior World Championships

Chan was born in Canada in 1990 to Chinese parents. His mother, a former laboratory technician, emigrated from Hong Kong to Montreal to study in her twenties , and his father to Ottawa at the age of four . Both parents practiced various sports such as skiing , tennis , martial arts and dance, the father, lawyer and chief of staff of the provincial minister for civil rights and immigration, had local success as a table tennis player . After moving from Ottawa to Toronto, at the age of six, at the urging of his mother, Chan began figure skating at the local Granite Club in preparation for ice hockey . But he found pleasure in the sport and stuck with it, although Chan was also considered a good skier and had already pursued this sport at the age of two.

Chan was trained by Ellen Burka and Osborne Colson (1916-2006), who had worked with the former Canadian world champions Barbara Ann Scott and Donald Jackson , among others . He first made national attention in 2003 when he won the Canadian championship title of "pre-novice" ("pre-novice") . A year later, Chan triumphed in the championships of "beginners" ("Novice") . After winning the Canadian Junior Championship in 2005, the 14-year-old was invited to take part in the Junior World Championships in Kitchener , Canada . As the youngest participant, Chan took seventh place in the victory of three years older Japanese Nobunari Oda . In the following years he often suffered from burnout phases, which he tried to compensate for with other sports such as tennis or golf.

In the 2005/2006 season, Chan took part in the Junior Grand Prix . He won the competition in Montreal and finished fourth and fifth in the competition in Slovakia and in the Junior Grand Prix finals. He also made his debut in the senior class at the Canadian Championships, where he finished seventh in the victory of his compatriot Jeffrey Buttle, who was eight years his senior . At the subsequent Junior World Championships in Ljubljana , Slovenia, he improved to sixth place compared to the previous year, even though he was still on bronze after the short program. In July 2006, Chan's long-time coach Osborne Colson, who had also supported him in his public appearances and nutritional issues, passed away. Chan, who did the four-time toe loop in the summer of 2006 and worked on the three-way Axel , switched to coach Don Laws in 2007 after working with the Japanese Shin Amano , the well-known runner like the former US Olympic champion Scott Hamilton and his compatriot Michael Weiss was one of his protégés.

Switch to the seniors

In the 2006/2007 season, the 15-year-old Chan moved to the seniors, where he made his debut at the Paris Trophée Eric Bompard . With a modern short program to the music of Klaus Badelt or a classical freestyle ( Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons ) he achieved fifth place in the victory of the future French World and European Champion Brian Joubert . He then took part in the 2006 NHK Trophy in Nagano, Japan , and achieved another top ten placement (7th place), while Chan was only fifth in the Canadian Senior Championships. For this he won at the Junior World Championships in Oberstdorf with the silver medal behind the American Stephen Carriere, the first men's individual medal in 23 years for Canada.

Chan at the show for the 2009 World Cup

The sporting breakthrough for Chan came in the following season 2007/2008, in which he switched his short program to the music of the Chinese composer Tan Dun and perfected his three-time Axel. In Skate America , the first Grand Prix competition, the Canadian finished third behind Daisuke Takahashi from Japan and Evan Lysacek from the United States . At the Trophée Eric Bompard, the 16-year-old Canadian finally prevailed with his best performance (in the absence of Brian Joubert) against the future Russian champion Sergei Woronow and the French Alban Préaubert . After a fifth place in the Grand Prix final, Chan was the youngest runner to win the Canadian senior title in 2008 against his compatriot Jeffrey Buttle, who was eight years his senior . At the following World Championships in March in Gothenburg , Sweden , he did not get past ninth place with a victory by Buttle, after finishing seventh and eleven in the short program and the freestyle.

In the 2008/2009 season, Chan was able to build on earlier successes. With his trainer Donald Laws and his choreographer Lori Nichol , he switched his program to Vanessa-Maes' interpretation of Walter Taieb's Tango de los Exilados (short program) and Sergei Rachmaninoff's Cello Sonata and the 2nd piano concerto (freestyle) and won the Skate Canada - Competition, repeated his victory at the Trophée Eric Bompard and finished fifth in the Grand Prix final in Goyang, South Korea . This was followed in the absence of the resigned world champion Jeffrey Buttle, the title win at the Canadian championships and the victory at the four continents championships in Vancouver before Evan Lysacek and the Japanese Takahiko Kozuka . With a score of 249.19, he achieved his best result in an international competition to date.

Traded as a medal candidate at the world championships in Los Angeles , Chan only had to admit defeat to Evan Lysacek and won his first world championship medal in the seniors with silver. After the resignation of Jeffrey Buttle, Chan was seen in Canada as the hope of a medal for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, his home country, and his early successes compared him to well-known compatriots like Browning or Brian Orser . In the run-up, the Canadian had criticized the running styles of his competitors Yevgeny Pljuschtschenko and Brian Joubert, who relied on quadruple jumps, as old-fashioned. Instead, Chan praised his artistic style, in which he placed more emphasis on the transitions and dance sequences than those of the future. This was rated higher after the introduction of a new rating system in the 2004/05 season. Chan could not meet domestic expectations with fifth place at the Olympic Games, but with the American Lysacek, an athlete who was more oriented towards artistic running style also won ahead of the powerful Pljushchenko. In retrospect, however, at that time he had only accessed 60 percent of his athletic performance level, said Chan in April 2011.

At the 2010 World Figure Skating Championships in Turin , Chan was able to win the silver medal again, this time behind Daisuke Takahashi . As in the previous year, his freestyle did not show any of the mandatory quadruple jumps. From January 8, 2011, he announced a change of coach. From then on he trained with Lori Nichol , his longtime choreographer, and with Christy Krall , a technical specialist, in Colorado.

First quadruple jumps and world records

Chan during the short program at the 2010 World Cup

In December 2010, Chan won the Grand Prix final with a new personal best of 259.75 points. A month later he became Canadian champions for the fourth time in a row. In his freestyle to the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera he showed two quadruple toe loops for the first time . With 285.85 points, he set a new national record. This value would have improved Daisuke Takahashi's three-year-old world record by over 20 points if it had been run in an international competition recognized by the ISU. Chan did not start at the Four Continents Championship, which Daisuke Takahashi won. This season, Chan spoke of wanting to dominate figure skating for years and gave the successful athletes Roger Federer , Peyton Manning and Tiger Woods as role models. With Kathy Johnson, a Juilliard School graduate and teacher of modern dance , he had tried from summer 2010 to come closer to the ideal of the ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov . Chan worked with the figure skating experienced Johnson on his posture, breathing and preparation for each element, among other things.

At the end of April 2011, the World Cup , which was relocated to Moscow due to a severe earthquake in Japan , the favored 20-year-old offered his best performance so far in a short program. For his jazz interpretation Take Five , Chan had a combination of quadruple toe loop / triple toe loop, a triple axel and a triple flip, whereupon he achieved the world record set by Yevgeny Pljushchenko (91.30) with 93.02 points at the 2010 European Championships . outbid. With an almost flawless freestyle to Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantasia , which also included the toe loop combination, he also won the freestyle ranking with a world record of 187.96 points ahead of the Japanese Takahiko Kozuka and the Russian Artur Gatschinski . With 280.98 points , Chan beat the world record set by the Japanese Takahashi in 2008 by 16.57 points.

Patrick Chan defended his title at the 2012 World Cup in Nice . Despite first places in the short program and freestyle, the point advantage was lower compared to his outstanding victory in the previous year. This was mainly due to two mistakes in his freestyle to the music of Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez . When Chan had already stood two quadruple toe- loops (one of them in a quad-triple-toe- loop combination) and a triple axel , he made a mistake with his triple- Lutz- half-toe-loop-triple- salchow combination and completely missed the double axel jump. Chan had had problems with the Lutz for the entire season, this time the wobbly landing made it impossible to perform the following two jumps perfectly in the combination. Chan justified the omission of his Axel with the lag behind the music, which he had to catch up and thus hastily the entrance of the jump. In the end, in addition to the one-point deduction for the fall, Chan also got a point deduction for exceeding the time. In the end he was 6.45 points ahead of Daisuke Takahashi . For Chan, the day of winning his second world title had an emotional component, because it was the birthday of Osborne Colson , who had taught him figure skating.

After earning his sixth national championship title, Chan became world champion for the third time in a row in 2013 in London, Canada . In the short program he set a new world record with 98.37 points. With a lead of almost seven points over the Kazakhs Denis Ten , he then went into the freestyle. He opened it impressively with a quadruple-triple- toe loop combination and a single quadruple toe loop. After that, however, he fell on the triple Lutz and triple Axel and made numerous other mistakes in his jumps. Nevertheless, in the end it was still enough with one point ahead of ten to gold.

Could beat his own world record again Chan at the Trophée Eric Bompard in November 2013: After a flawless long program with two quadruple Toeloops and seven triple jumps, which was rewarded with 196.75 points, he reached a total score of 295.27 points in first place .

Private life

Patrick Chan, who counts the world figure skating champions Kurt Browning and Todd Eldredge as his role models, lives in Toronto . He starts for the Granite Club located there . After training in Canada and Florida alternately , his current training location is Colorado Springs , Colorado , USA , where he spends up to 21 hours a week on the ice. In Colorado, Chan was also accepted at a university that allowed him to study foreign trade theory in addition to sports . His current partner, the Canadian speed skater Anastasia Bucsis, who is two years older than him, was decisive for going back to school after a two-year break. Chan had previously attended the French-language school École secondaire Étienne-Brûlé . In addition to English and French, he also speaks Cantonese and broken Mandarin. His hobbies include playing golf, mountain biking and tennis.

In January 2008, Chan received the Chinese Canadian Youth of the Year award from the Chinese Cultural Center in Toronto and a little later the title Asian of the Year in arts and sports from Asia Network magazine .

Results

Chan and his then coach Don Laws at the 2007 Grand Prix Final

championship	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
winter Olympics							5.				2.				9.
World championships					9.	2.	2.	1.	1.	1.			5.	5.
Four continents championships						1.			1.				1.	4th
World Team Trophy						2.			3.	2.	2.
Junior World Championships		7th	6th	2.
Canadian Championships	1st N.	1st J	7th	5.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.		1.	1.	1.
Grand Prix competition	03/04	04/05	05/06	06/07	07/08	08/09	09/10	10/11	11/12	12/13	13/14	14/15	15/16	16/17	17/18
Grand Prix Final					5.	5.		1.	1.	3.	2.		4th	5.
Skate America					3.
Skate Canada						1.	6th	1.	1.	2.	1.		1.	1.	4th
Cup of Russia							Z	2.		1.
Eric Bompard Trophy				5.	1.	1.			1.		1.		5.
NHK Trophy				7th
Cup of China														1.

• Z = withdrawn; N = Novice, J = Juniors

Programs

Chan in 2010

The Canadian at the "Festa On Ice" (2009)

season	Short program	Freestyle	Exhibition running
2011–2012	Take Five by Paul Desmond choreographed by Lori Nichol	Concierto de Aranjuez by Joaquín Rodrigo choreographed by Lori Nichol	Elegy in E Flat Minor by Sergei Rachmaninoff choreographed by Jeffrey Buttle Mannish Boy from Muddy Waters choreographed by David Wilson Moondance by Van Morrison sung by Michael Bublé choreographed by Lori Nichol
2010-2011	Take Five by Paul Desmond choreographed by Lori Nichol	The Phantom of the Opera - Phantasia by Andrew Lloyd Webber interpreted by Julian Lloyd Webber and Sarah Chang choreographed by Lori Nichol	Don't Worry, Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin choreographed by Lori Nichol
2009-2010	Tango de los Exilados by Walter Taieb interpreted by Vanessa-Mae and choreographed by Lori Nichol	The Phantom of the Opera - Phantasia by Andrew Lloyd Webber interpreted by Julian Lloyd Webber and Sarah Chang choreographed by Lori Nichol	Yesterday by Michael Bolton choreographed by Lori Nichol Viva la Vida from Coldplay choreographed by Kurt Browning
2008-2009	Tango de los Exilados by Walter Taieb interpreted by Vanessa-Mae	Allegro Scherzando & Andante from the cello sonata Allegro Scherzando from the 2nd piano concerto by Sergei Rachmaninow	Time To Say Goodbye interpreted by Andrea Bocelli
2007-2008	Exile to Snowy West and in the Bamboo Forest by Tan Dun	The four seasons by Antonio Vivaldi	Nessun dorma Yesterday by Michael Bolton
2006-2007	Gourmet Valse Tatars by Klaus Badelt	Excerpts from The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi	Nessun dorma
2005-2006	La Represion by Lalo Schifrin Feline by E. van Dijken	Guitar Concerto by John Williams Symphony No.2 Romantic by H. Hanson Romance from Concerto for Violin and Orchestra by E. Korngold
2004-2005	La Represion by Lalo Schifrin Feline by E. van Dijken	Burn It All & You Go, We Go & Fahrenheit 451 from the backdraft soundtrack by Hans Zimmer and Jay Rifkin

Web links

Commons : Patrick Chan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website (English)
• Patrick Chan in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
• Profile at Skate Canada (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} cf. DiManno, Rosie: Canadian champion Chan is just getting started . In: The Toronto Star , March 16, 2008, Sports, p. S01.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} cf. Lankhof, Bill: All Chan needs is a cape . In: The Toronto Sun, November 29, 2007, Sports, p. S6.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} cf. Skating's Odd Couple . In: The Toronto Star, Jan. 14, 2007, Sports, p. B04.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} cf. Lankhof, Bill: In the shadows of greatness . In: The Toronto Sun, October 25, 2008, Sport, p. S12.
5. ↑ cf. 16-year-old wins the Grand Prix in Paris . In: Rheinische Post , November 19, 2007.
6. ↑ cf. Moore, Emmeline ( AFP ): Patrick Chan blasts 'old' Plushenko at google.com, February 10, 2010 (accessed April 28, 2011).
7. ↑ ^{a b c} cf. The Chan Dynasty . In: The Toronto Star, April 25, 2011, p. S1
8. ↑ cf. Johnson, George ( Calgary Herald ): Patrick Chan has eye on gold . Canwest News Service, Feb. 4, 2011 at 1:01 AM EST.
9. ↑ cf. Patrick Chan in a class of his own at nzz.ch, April 27, 2011 (accessed April 27, 2011).
10. ↑ cf. Patrick Chan after “world record” before the title on sport.sf.tv, April 27, 2011 (accessed on April 27, 2011).
11. ↑ http://www.goldenskate.com/2012/03/chan-wins-second-consecutive-world-title/
12. ↑ New world record by Chan ( Memento from March 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Yahoo Sport Germany)
13. ↑ Official results list of the Trophée Eric Bompard 2013 English
14. ↑ ^{a b} cf. Profile of the International Ice Skating Union (accessed April 27, 2011).
15. ↑ cf. Smith, Beverley: Chan tries to stay razor sharp . In: The Globe and Mail , April 15, 2011, p. S4.