Patrick Péra

Patrick Péra
nation	France
birthday	January 17, 1949
place of birth	Lyon
Career
discipline	Single run
Trainer	Paul Gaudin, Jacqueline Vaudecrane
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 2 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 2 × EM medals 0 × 2 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze Grenoble 1968 Men's bronze Sapporo 1972 Men's  World figure skating championships bronze Geneva 1968 Men's bronze Colorado Springs 1969 Men's silver Lyon 1971 Men's  European figure skating championships silver Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1969 Men's silver Leningrad 1970 Men's bronze Gothenburg 1972 Men's

Patrick Péra (born January 17, 1949 in Lyon , France ) is a former French figure skater who started in a single run .

Life

After Alain Calmat resigned in 1965, Péra dominated the men's competition at the French championships in the following years, which he won from 1966 to 1972. With a fourth place at the European Championship in 1966 and a sixth place at the World Championship in 1966 , he quickly made it to the top of the world. He won his first international medal at the 1968 Olympic Games in Grenoble. Behind Wolfgang Schwarz and Tim Wood he received the bronze medal, although he was worse than fourth-placed Emmerich Danzer in terms of both the number of places and the number of points . Péra benefited from the fact that it was not the number of places that decided, but the individual ratings of the judges, the majority of whom saw him ahead of Danzer, even though Danzer received the best freestyle rating. At the subsequent World Cup in Geneva , Emmerich Danzer won the title ahead of Tim Wood, Péra again received bronze.

In the next two years Péra finished second at the European Championships behind Ondrej Nepela , at the World Championships in 1969 he won bronze behind Tim Wood and Ondrej Nepela; In 1970 he was fourth behind Wood, Nepela and Günter Zöller . 1971 Péra left out the European Championship, but was able to win silver behind Nepela at the World Championship before the European Championship runner-up Sergei Tschetwerukhin . In 1972 he won bronze at the European Championships and the Olympic Games behind Nepela and Tschetwerukhin. After the Olympics, Péra ended his amateur career.

Péra was not as brilliant a free skater as Emmerich Danzer or Tim Wood, but a more balanced figure skater. Building on what is usually a solid compulsory ranking, he risked little in the freestyle and was therefore mostly flawless. He won the audience more through dance skills and show elements than through his ability to jump.

Results

Competition / year	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969	1970	1971	1972
winter Olympics	-	-	-	-	3.	-	-	-	3.
World Championship	14th	15th	6th	7th	3.	3.	4th	2.	-
European Championship		-	4th	4th	4th	2.	2.	-	3.
French championships		3.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Olympic Winter Games, the chronicle . Berlin 1994 ISBN 3-328-00631-1

Web links

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

• Patrick Péra in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )