Victor Kraatz

Victor Kraatz
nation	Canada
birthday	April 7th 1971
place of birth	Berlin, Germany
size	178 cm
Weight	65 kg
Career
discipline	Ice dance
Partner	Shae-Lynn Bourne
society	CPA Boucherville
Trainer	Nikolai Morosow, Sergej Ponomarenko, Marina Klimowa, Uschi Keszler, Natalja Dubowa, Tatjana Tarassowa, Erik Gillies, Josée Picard
status	resigned
End of career	2003
Medal table
World Cup medals 1 × 1 × 4 × VKM medals 3 × 0 × 0 ×
World figure skating championships bronze Edmonton 1996 Ice dance bronze Lausanne 1997 Ice dance bronze Minneapolis 1998 Ice dance bronze Helsinki 1999 Ice dance silver Nagano 2002 Ice dance gold Washington 2003 Ice dance Four continents championships gold Halifax 1999 Ice dance gold Salt Lake City 2001 Ice dance gold Beijing 2003 Ice dance

Victor Kraatz (born April 7, 1971 in Berlin ) is a former Canadian figure skater who started in ice dancing .

Victor Kraatz started ice skating at the age of nine. He was born in West Berlin , grew up in Switzerland and later immigrated to Canada . In Switzerland he became an ice dancer and ran together with the Swiss Analisa Beltrami. After coming to Canada, Taryn O'Neill became his ice dance partner. From April 20, 1991 until the end of his ice skating career, Victor Kraatz ran with Shae-Lynn Bourne . The ice dancing couple had several coaches one after the other, Josée Picard , Eric Gillies , Tatjana Tarassowa , Natalja Dubowa , Uschi Keszler , Marina Klimowa and Sergei Ponomarenko as well as Nikolai Morosow . Victor Kraatz started for the CPA Boucherville. At the end of their amateur careers, Bourne and Kraatz were training in Newington , Connecticut .

In 1993 Bourne and Kraatz became Canadian ice dance champions for the first time and made their debut at world championships . In 1996 they won their first world championship medal with bronze. They achieved the same result in 1997 , 1998 and 1999 . In 1999 they won the first four continents championships in Halifax . They succeeded in doing this again in 2001 and 2003. In 2002 they became runner-up world champions and in 2003 they finally became world champions in Washington . It was the first ever world ice dance title for a Canadian and North American couple. Bourne and Kraatz took part in the Olympic Games three times , but without winning a medal. In 1994 they finished tenth and in 1998 and 2002 they finished fourth. After winning the World Cup, they ended their competitive career in 2003.

Bourne and Kraatz were a total of ten Canadian champions and won six times at the Grand Prix Skate Canada , which they are each record winner. They were twice victorious in the Grand Prix finals .

On June 19, 2004 Kraatz married the Finnish ice dancer Maikki Uotila . They work together as trainers in Vancouver . The couple have two sons (born in 2006 and 2010).

Results

Ice dance

(with Shae-Lynn Bourne )

Competition / year	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
winter Olympics		10.				4th				4th
World championships	14th	6th	4th	3.	3.	3.	3.		4th	2.	1.
Four continents championships							1.		1.		1.
Canadian Championships	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.		1.	1.	1.
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Grand Prix competition / season	92/93	93/94	94/95	95/96	96/97	97/98	98/99	99/00	00/01	01/02	02/03
Grand Prix Final					4th	1.	2.		5.	1.
Skate America									3.		1.
Skate Canada	6th	3.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.			1.
Eric Bompard Trophy										2.
Cup of Russia								2.
NHK Trophy				2.		2.	1.
Bofrost Cup on Ice		5.			2.		2.		3.

• Z = withdrawn

Web links

• Victor Kraatz / Shae-Lynn Bourne in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
• Victor Kraatz in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.skatetoday.com/2010/07/14/victor-and-maikki-kraatz-welcome-second-son/