Stéphane Lambiel

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Stéphane Lambiel figure skating
Stéphane Lambiel at the EM 2010
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday April 2, 1985
place of birth Martigny, Switzerland
size 174 cm
Weight 61 kg
Career
society Patineurs de Genève
Trainer Peter Grütter,
Wiktor Petrenko,
Halyna Smijewska
choreographer Salomé Brunner,
Antonio Najarro
status resigned
End of career 2010
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World Cup medals 2 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
EM medals 0 × gold 3 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
silver Turin 2006 Men's
ISU World figure skating championships
gold Moscow 2005 Men's
gold Calgary 2006 Men's
bronze Tokyo 2007 Men's
ISU European figure skating championships
silver Lyon 2006 Men's
silver Zagreb 2008 Men's
silver Tallinn 2010 Men's
Personal best
 Total points 246.72 Olympia 2010
 Freestyle 162.09 Olympia 2010
 Short program 84.63 Olympia 2010
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Grand Prix Final 2 0 0
 Grand Prix competitions 1 3 1
 

Stéphane Lambiel (born April 2, 1985 in Martigny , Valais ) is a figure skating coach, choreographer and former Swiss figure skater who started in a single run . He is the world champion of 2005 and 2006 .

Personal

Lambiel grew up in Saxon . His father is Swiss and his mother is from Portugal . He has two siblings, Silvia (* 1982) and Christophe (* 1989). Lambiel is fluent in French, German, English and Portuguese.

Career

Figure skater

Stéphane Lambiel with his trainer Peter Grütter at the 2004 European Championships

Lambiel began figure skating in 1992. His trainer was Peter Grütter from 1995 and his choreographer was Salomé Brunner since 1996 . Lambiel often designed and drew his own costumes. In 1998 and 1999 he was Swiss Junior Champion. At the Junior World Championships he was tenth in 2000 and fifth in 2001. In 2001 Lambiel also made his debut at the Swiss Senior Championships, which he won straight away. At his European Championship debut in 2001 in Bratislava , he managed to jump into the top ten with ninth place. The following year Lambiel played his first Olympic Games in Salt Lake City and his first world championship in Nagano , finishing in 15th and 18th place respectively. At the European Championship, he improved to fourth place, a result that he would only undercut four years later. In 2004 Lambiel reached the top ten at world championships for the first time with fourth place .

Lambiel had his breakthrough in 2005. Although he was unable to take part in any Grand Prix competition due to injury and had again missed a medal at the European Championship in fourth place, he became world champion on March 17 in Moscow . It was the first men's world championship title for Switzerland since 1947 , when Hans Gerschwiler was victorious. It was Lambiel's first medal in an international championship in the elite class. He was the only runner in the men's competition to get two faultless quadruple toe loops in the freestyle. He benefited from the injury-related task of Yevgeny Pljuschtschenkos after the short program, which had won the title fights in the two previous years. However, Lambiel had already won both the qualification and the short program. In the freestyle, Lambiel ran to the soundtrack of King Arthur by Hans Zimmer .

Stéphane Lambiel at the 2005 World Cup in Moscow

In the 2005/2006 season Lambiel won at least the silver medal in every competition in which he participated. He finished second at the Cup of Russia and the Cup of China , winning his first Grand Prix medals. For the first time he qualified for the Grand Prix final , in which he won in Tokyo .

At the European Championships in Lyon Lambiel was finally able to win his first medal at the European Championships with silver behind Yevgeny Pljuschtschenko . So he went to the Olympic Games in Turin with good chances for a medal . After the short program he was in third place, then he showed the fourth-best freestyle, but this was enough to win the silver medal behind Pljuschtschenko, as others made bigger mistakes. He did not show a triple axel at the Olympic Games, but a clean quadruple toe loop, triple toe loop, double Rittberger combination. It was the third Olympic medal for Switzerland in the men's competition after Georges Gautschi's bronze medal in 1924 and Hans Gerschwiler's silver medal in 1948 . After Pljuschtschenko canceled his participation in the following World Cup in Calgary , Lambiel was considered the favorite for the title. He finished fourth in the short program and won the freestyle. Because of his victory in qualification, he was able to beat Brian Joubert and thus defend his world title. Lambiel became the first Swiss figure skater to win two world championship titles.

In 2007 Lambiel canceled participation in the European Championship due to a lack of motivation, after he was unable to participate in the NHK Trophy in November due to flu and thus also missed the Grand Prix final . In March he therefore played after Skate Canada , where he had won, with the world championship, only the second international competition of the season. After a failed short program, he won the bronze medal behind Brian Joubert and Daisuke Takahashi in Tokyo with his long-awaited flamenco freestyle , choreographed by Antonio Najarro .

Lambiel at the 2007/08 Grand Prix Final

The 2007/08 season began for Lambiel with a third place in the Cup of China and a second place in the Cup of Russia . He qualified again for his second Grand Prix final and was able to win it again, albeit very close to Daisuke Takahashi . At the European Championships in Zagreb he won the silver medal behind Tomáš Verner and at the World Championships he finished fifth due to several mistakes.

In 2008 Lambiel went to the USA to train with Wiktor Petrenko and Halyna Smijewska in New Jersey . In October, however, he canceled his two planned Grand Prix competitions and announced his resignation due to an adductor injury .

Lambiel returned for the 2009/10 Olympic season, he was trained again by Peter Grütter . With a victory in the Nebelhorn Trophy he qualified for the Olympic Games. He became Swiss champion for the ninth time and won his third silver medal at the European Championships at the European Championships in Tallinn behind the also returned Yevgeny Pljuschtschenko . He went to the Olympic Games in Vancouver as the standard bearer for Switzerland. He finished fourth and only missed the bronze medal by half a point. A few weeks later, Lambiel announced his final retirement from competitive sports. Since then he has appeared at numerous ice revues and show events.

Choreographer and trainer

Lambiel sometimes works as a choreographer. He worked for the following figure skaters, among others:

He also works as a trainer: in 2014 he founded the Skating School of Switzerland in Champéry , where he works with the former international figure skaters Anna Bernauer and Robb Dierking , as well as with his own companions Peter Grütter , Salomé Brunner and Majda Scharl at regular intervals . Since January 1, 2020, he has also been officially working as a trainer and choreographer for the Swiss Ice Skating Association . Since June 2020 he has been the coach of multiple Swiss champion Alexia Paganini .

Others

Lambiel was best known for his pirouettes . Unlike most figure skaters, he could jump clockwise and counterclockwise and do pirouettes. Alexei Mishin described him as an outstanding artist and a pirouette genius and remarked that he had been crushed by modern regulations.

He is one of only five European world champions in history who have never become European champions and one of only three European figure skaters who have won at least two world titles without ever winning a European title. The last world champion before Lambiel, who never became European champion, was Sergei Volkov .

Lambiel designed his own watch model, called the Spin Master.

Lambiel at the EM 2010

Results

Competition / year 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2010
winter Olympics 15th 2. 4th
World championships 18th 10. 4th 1. 1. 3. 5.
European championships 9. 4th 5. 6th 4th 2. 2. 2.
Junior World Championships 10. 5.
Swiss championships 1st N. 1st J 1st J 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1.
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Grand Prix competition / season 96/97 97/98 98/99 99/00 00/01 01/02 02/03 03/04 04/05 05/06 06/07 07/08 09/10
Grand Prix Final 1. 1.
Skate Canada 1.
Trophée Lalique 6th
Cup of Russia 5. 2. 2.
Cup of China 2. 3.
  • Lambiel did not start in the 2008/2009 season
  • N = newbies; J = juniors

Other competitions

  • 2001 - 11th place - Finlandia Trophy
  • 2002 - 1st place - Les Etoiles de la Glace
  • 2002 - 1st place - Ondrej Nepela Memorial
  • 2009 - 1st place - Nebelhorn Trophy

Web links

Commons : Stéphane Lambiel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Vladislav Luchianov: Lambiel enjoying new career as a choreographer. In: icenetwork.com. Retrieved October 15, 2015 .
  2. ^ Fédération Française des Sports de Glace: Patinage Artistique - Florent Amodio. (PDF) September 9, 2013, archived from the original on December 24, 2014 ; accessed on October 15, 2015 (French, press release).
  3. ↑ Michal BREZINA - Biography. International Ice Skating Union , September 20, 2015, archived from the original on September 21, 2015 ; accessed on October 15, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Reut Golinsky: Carolina Kostner: "I hope did my time is not over yet". absoluteskating.com, December 9, 2011, accessed October 15, 2015 .
  5. ↑ a b c d Vladislav Luchianov: Lambiel: 'I prefer investing in my sport and my art'. icenetwork.com, July 15, 2015, accessed October 15, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Tatsuki MACHIDA - Biography. International Skating Union , archived from the original on December 24, 2011 ; accessed on October 15, 2015 .
  7. ↑ a b Reut Golinsky: Ice Legends 2014. absoluteskating.com, accessed on October 15, 2015 (English).
  8. ↑ Celine Oreiller: Dream Team. absoluteskating.com, June 24, 2010, accessed October 15, 2015 .
  9. ^ Ia Remmel: Nelli Zhiganshina and Alexander Gazsi: "It was time to show that we are not just 'funny'". absoluteskating.com, January 9, 2015, accessed October 15, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Sarah Meier : Stéphane Lambiel breaks new ground - visiting the Skating School of Switzerland . In: pirouette . Volume 48, No. 4, 2015, p. 34.
  11. ↑ Lambiel becomes national coach . In: pirouette . Volume 53, No. 1, 2020, p. 37.
  12. ↑ Олег Алексеев, Андрей Симоненко: Тарасова вернулась. Ждем Плющенко? (No longer available online.) Sovsport.ru, October 25, 2008, archived from the original on October 26, 2008 ; Retrieved February 23, 2011 (Russian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sovsport.ru
  13. ↑ SPIN MASTER DESSINÉE PAR STÉPHANE LAMBIEL. 121time.com, archived from the original on March 3, 2012 ; Retrieved October 15, 2015 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Lambiel, Stéphane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss figure skater
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Martigny (Valais)