Sarah Hedges

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Sarah Hedges figure skating
Sarah Hedges
nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday August 27, 1993
place of birth Mannheim
size 170 cm
Career
discipline Single run
society Mannheim ERC
Trainer Stefan Lindemann ,
Peter Sczypa
choreographer Iwo Svec
National squad B-squad since 2010/2011
status resigned
End of career 2015
Medal table
National medals 4 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Personal best
 Total points 155.83 World Cup 2011
 Freestyle 103.10 World Cup 2011
 Short program 55.20 World Cup 2010
last change: November 2nd, 2014

Sarah Hecken (born August 27, 1993 in Mannheim ) is a former German figure skater who started in a single run . She is German champion in 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2013.

biography

Sarah Hecken started ice skating at the age of three. The Mannheim ERC runner, who has been trained by the state trainer Peter Sczypa since 1997 , won the national championship title four times in a row in her respective age group, became Baden-Württemberg's senior champion at the age of twelve and defended this title in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011 At the German Championships in Dresden in 2008 she surprisingly won the senior competition at the age of 14. As a single skater, she is the youngest German champion in the history of the German Ice Skating Union. Despite the title win, she was still too young to take part in the European Championship (from 16 years). At the German Championships in Mannheim in 2010, Hecken won the championship title for the second time in her hometown with 157.49 points.

Champion Sarah Hecken with trainer Peter Sczypa at the German Championships 2010 in Mannheim

Hecken celebrated her first international success with first place at the Junior Grand Prix 2007 in Chemnitz , which also meant the first victory of a German individual runner in the competition series introduced in 2000. In 2008 bronze followed at the Junior Grand Prix in Merano . In 2009 Hecken took 7th place at the Junior World Championships in Sofia . At the end of the season she surprised with gold at the Triglav Trophy 2009 in Jesenice and at the same time her first victory in an ISU senior competition.

In the 2009/2010 Olympic season she officially started in the senior class for the first time. Due to her 18th place in the world ranking list, she received invitations to the USA and Canada to the ISU Senior Grands Prix held there. As the only German figure skater, she achieved the Olympic standard in two international ISU competitions and qualified for the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver . At the 2010 Winter Olympics , she traveled to the age of 16 years as the youngest athlete of the entire German Olympic team and was awarded the title of Olympic media chick. At the games she reached 18th place. In her debut at the 2010 World Championships in Turin, she finished twelfth and thus again secured her entry authorization for the 2010 Senior Grand Prix Series.

In the 2010/2011 season, Hecken won medals at two ISU competitions. At the IceChallenge 2010 in Graz she came in 3rd place. In Dortmund at the NRW Trophy, she took home silver with a faultless freestyle program with five triple jumps. In January 2011, Hecken in Oberstdorf won her third German championship title with 149.11 points , making her the only German individual runner to take part in the 2011 European Championships in Bern and the 2011 World Championships in Moscow . At the European Championships she missed a place in the top ten by a hundredth of a point and finished 11th with a total of 137.43 points. She showed her best performance of the season at the 2011 World Championships in Moscow. With 155.83 points, she also took 11th place and thus again secured her personal entry authorization for two Senior Grand Prix competitions in the 2011/12 season.

Sarah Hecken after winning the German Championship in 2010

In 2013 she won her 4th German championship title in the national championships in Hamburg with two faultless programs and eight triple jumps.

Two weeks before the German Championships 2013/14, where she finished second behind Nathalie Weinzierl , she moved to Berlin to train with Stefan Lindemann . At the European Championships in Budapest in 2014 , she finished 34th with 35.20 points after the short program and thus missed the final of the best 24th runners for the first time.

She attended the Integrated Comprehensive School Mannheim-Herzogenried , where she successfully passed her Abitur in 2012. In the summer of 2012, she joined the Bundeswehr as a sports soldier. In spring 2010, the city of Mannheim voted Sarah Hecken as Sportswoman of the Year 2009. Since October 2014 she has been studying business administration at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

In 2015 Sarah Hecken ended her career for health and professional reasons.

Competitions

Results
International
Competition / season 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15
winter Olympics 18th
World championships 12. 11. 20th
European championships 16. 11. 34.
GP Trophée Eric Bompard 10.
GP Skate America 8th. 10.
GP Skate Canada 9. 8th.
Bavarian Open 1. Y. 1. 4th 2.
Coupe de Nice Z 11. 15th
Ice Challenge 3.
Merano Cup 1. 2.
New Year's Cup 1.
Nebelhorn Trophy 9. 7th Z 6th 10.
NRW Trophy 2. 15th
Nepela Memorial 3. 7th
Coupe du Printemps 1.
Triglav Trophy 1.
Heiko Fischer 1. N. 1. N. 1. Y. 2. 1.
International: Juniors (until 2008/2009 season)
Junior World Championships 8th. 7th
JGP Austria 13.
JGP Germany 1.
JGP Italy 3.
JGP South Africa 5.
National
German championships 2. N. (*) 1. N. 1. Y. 1. J. 1. 4th 1. 1. 1. 2. 4th
GP = Grand Prix; JGP = Junior Grand Prix; Z = Retired
Levels: N. = Novices; Y. = youth; J. = Juniors
(*) The German Novices Championships 2003-2004 were held as Open German Championships.

Web links

Commons : Sarah Hecken  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ At the German Championships 2010 Sarah Hecken achieved a national personal best of:
    • Overall rating: 157.46 points
    • Short program: 56.64 points.
    National championships do not count as international ISU competitions and are therefore not taken into account by the International Ice Skating Union when determining the personal ISU best.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Current status of the German Ice Skating Union's national team. (PDF; 26 kB) German Ice Skating Union, October 16, 2012, archived from the original on January 31, 2012 ; Retrieved September 14, 2013 .
  2. ^ National Results Sarah Hecken. Sarah Hecken website, September 24, 2011, archived from the original on January 10, 2015 ; Retrieved September 25, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Andreas Wagner: Germany is hoping for a new ice princess. In: The world . January 5, 2008, accessed January 5, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Figure skating: German champion too young for EM. In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung . January 6, 2008, accessed January 5, 2013 .
  5. ^ Doris Henkel: Figure Skating: The Daughters of Mannheim Trumps. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . December 20, 2009, archived from the original on March 23, 2016 ; Retrieved January 5, 2013 .
  6. ↑ German Olympic team nominated. MDR , January 29, 2010, accessed December 9, 2010 .
  7. ↑ "Chick" hedges is there. In: DerWesten . Freie Presse, February 17, 2010, accessed March 25, 2013 .
  8. ↑ sid : Hedges flawless at World Cup debut. In: Handelsblatt . March 26, 2010, accessed January 5, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Andreas Wagner: cement in the leg, gold in hand. In: welt online . January 10, 2011, accessed January 10, 2011 .
  10. ↑ Hecken figure skating champion for the third time. In: dpa. welt.de, January 8, 2011, accessed January 10, 2011 .
  11. ^ Lindemann new coach of figure skater Hecken. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . Retrieved January 24, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Hedges, Sarah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German figure skater
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim