Sarah van Berkel
Sarah Meier 
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| birthday | 4th May 1984 (age 36) | ||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Bülach , Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||
| size | 164 cm | ||||||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Individual run women | ||||||||||||||||||
| society | Bülacher ice skating club | ||||||||||||||||||
| Trainer | Eva Fehr, Mark Pepperday | ||||||||||||||||||
| choreographer | Salome Brunner, Tatiana Druchinina | ||||||||||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||||
| End of career | 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| last change: January 6, 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||
Sarah van Berkel (* 4. May 1984 in Bülach , Canton of Zurich as Sarah Meier ) is a former Swiss figure skater . She is the 2011 European Champion. Today she works as a sports journalist.
Career
Sarah Meier began ice skating at the age of four at the Bülach ice skating club and was trained by her aunt Eva Fehr, among others. In 2000, at the early age of 15, she became Swiss champion in the individual run for the first time ; by 2010 she won seven other national titles.
In 2006 Sarah Meier surprised everyone with top positions in international competitions: she was eighth at the Winter Olympics in Turin , fourth at the European Championships in Lyon and sixth at the World Championships in Calgary . In doing so, she improved her personal freestyle best from 106.29 to 109.96 points.
On January 27, 2007, Sarah Meier won her first medal at a European championship with second place and thus again won a medal for Switzerland among women after 30 years. On January 29, 2011, she won the European Championship in front of a home crowd in Bern . The runner had already announced her resignation from competitive sport before the 2011 European Championship, and she confirmed her resignation after the victory on Swiss television .
In December 2011 she was voted Swiss Sportswoman of the Year .
After retiring from professional sport, Meier took part in ice shows such as Art on Ice until she announced in 2015 that she also wanted to largely end show running in order to devote herself to her training and career in journalism. She graduated from the Ringier School of Journalism and now works as a sports journalist for Schweizer Illustrierte . From April 2015 she was a permanent employee of the figure skating magazine pirouette .
Private
She has been married to the triathlete Jan van Berkel since 2018 and in January 2020 the 35-year-old became the mother of a son. The family lives in Dielsdorf ZH .
Results
| Competition / season | 1997/98 | 1998/99 | 1999/00 | 2000/01 | 2001/02 | 2002/03 | 2003/04 | 2004/05 | 2005/06 | 2006/07 | 2007/08 | 2008/09 | 2009/10 | 2010/11 |
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| winter Olympics | - | 13 | 8th | 15th | ||||||||||
| World championships | - | - | - | 12 | - | 19th | 13 | 14th | 6th | 7th | 6th | 9 | KP 26 | - |
| Junior World Championships | - | 10 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| European championships | - | - | 16 | 5 | 13 | - | 10 | 10 | 4th | 2 | 2 | - | 5 | 1 |
| Swiss championships | 1 y | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Grand Prix Final | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - |
| NHK Trophy | - | - | - | - | - | 7th | - | - | 7th | - | 2 | - | - | - |
| Cup of China | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6th | - | - |
| Cup of Russia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 6th | - | - |
| Eric Bompard Trophy | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | 4th | - | - | - |
| Skate Canada | - | - | - | - | 5 | - | - | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | WD |
| Skate America | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4th | - | - | - | - |
| Finlandia Trophy | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - |
| Nebelhorn Trophy | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | WD | - |
J = juniors; KP = placement according to short program; WD = withdrawn
Web links
- Sarah Meier's website
- Sarah Meier in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sarah Meier resigns after the home EM. In: Tages-Anzeiger . November 19, 2010. Retrieved January 30, 2011.
- ↑ Interview with Sarah Meier. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: SF Sport aktuell . January 29, 2011. Retrieved January 30, 2011
- ^ Albert René Kolb: Art on Ice 2015. Sarah Meier says »Adieu« . In: pirouette . Volume 48, No. 3, 2015, p. 30.
- ↑ About me (January 6, 2020)
- ↑ Imprint / editorial notice. In pirouette . Volume 48, No. 4, 2015, pp. 3 and 4.
- ↑ Sarah and Jan van Berkel welcome offspring (January 4, 2020)
- ↑ SI (May 21, 2018)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Berkel, Sarah van |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meier, Sarah (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss figure skater |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4th 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bulach |