Sarah Abitbol

Sarah Abitbol
Sarah Abitbol and Stéphane Bernadis, 2001
nation	France
birthday	June 8th 1975
place of birth	Nantes
size	150 cm
Weight	43 kg
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	Stéphane Bernadis
society	Français flounces Paris
Trainer	Jean-Christophe Simond, Stanislaw Leonowitsch, Jean-Roland Racle
choreographer	Tatiana Tarasova
status	resigned
End of career	2003
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 × EM medals 0 × 2 × 5 ×
World figure skating championships bronze Nice 2000 Couples  European figure skating championships bronze Sofia 1996 Couples bronze Milan 1998 Couples bronze Prague 1999 Couples bronze Vienna 2000 Couples bronze Bratislava 2001 Couples silver Lausanne 2002 Couples silver Malmo 2003 Couples
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 0 1 0  Grand Prix competitions 3 3 4th
last change: February 4, 2011

Sarah Abitbol (born June 8, 1975 in Nantes ) is a former French figure skater who started in pair skating .

Career

Her figure skating partner was Stéphane Bernadis . At his side she was French pair skating champion from 1994 to 2003 . In 1993 they made their debut at world and European championships . They won their first major international medal with bronze at the European Championships in 1996 . At the European Championships in 1998 , 1999 , 2000 and 2001 they always won the bronze medal. In 2002 and 2003 Abitbol and Bernadis became vice-European champions behind the Russians Tatjana Totmjanina and Maxim Marinin . The French won their only medal at world championships in 2000 in Nice at their home World Cup. They finished third behind the Russians Marija Petrowa and Alexei Tichonow and the Chinese Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo . It was France's first pair skating World Cup medal since Andrée and Pierre Brunet won the title in 1932 . Abitbol and Bernadis finished their only Olympic Games in Nagano in 1998 in sixth place. They had to cancel the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City due to a tear in Abitbol's Achilles tendon. In 2003 they ended their careers.

Autobiography

In her biographical book Un si long silence , published in January 2020, Abitbol reveals "that her coach at the time raped her at the age of 15 ". As a result, it became public that other female athletes had also become victims of the coach and that the Ice Sports Association had not done anything about it, although the attacks had been reported to those responsible by "numerous" victims. Preliminary investigations have been initiated by the public prosecutor. At the beginning of February 2020 Didier Gailhaguet, the long-time French figure skating president, against whom there were no allegations of abuse himself, resigned from his position. Gilles Beyer , the trainer accused by Abitbol, ​​has admitted his wrongdoing in a statement and apologized to Sarah Abitbol.

Results

Pair skating

(with Stéphane Bernadis )

Competition / year	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
winter Olympics						6th
World championships	19th		9.	11.	7th	8th.	5.	3.	Z		12.
European championships	14th	15th	7th	3.	4th	3.	3.	3.	3.	2.	2.
French championships	2.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.

Web links

Commons : Sarah Abitbol  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Abitbol and Bernadis in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
• Sarah Abitbol in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ France: Preliminary investigations into allegations of abuse in figure skating , deutschlandfunk.de, published and accessed on February 4, 2020
2. ↑ Abuse scandal: French figure skating president resigns , deutschlandfunk.de, published and accessed on February 8, 2020