Fabian Bourzat

Fabian Bourzat ( born December 19, 1980 in Nantes, Pays de la Loire ) is a French figure skater who starts in ice dancing.

Bourzat began at the age of six years with the figure skating and devoted himself immediately to the ice dance. Since 2000, Nathalie Pechalat is his Eistanzpartnerin. The ice dance was brought together by former ice dancer and coach Muriel Zazoui and is now coached by Alexander Volkov and Oleg Schulin.

Pechalat and Bourzat debuted in 2004 at the World Championships, the 2005 European Championships and 2006 Olympic Games. In 2008 they made it for the first time in the top ten at the World and European Championships. This they succeeded in their second Olympic Games in 2010.

After two fourth places at the European Championships Pechalat and Bourzat, 2011 were European champions in Bern and thus won their first medal at the World and European Championships. At the World Championships in Moscow, the French champions were from 2009 and 2011 after the short dance at the third place, a fall of Bourzat in their hitherto flawless freestyle cost them at the end of the bronze medal. As in the previous year they were fourth. However, the 2010/11 season was the most successful of the pair. They also won both the Grand Prix competitions in which they competed, including the Trophée Eric Bompard and the Cup of China and won the silver medal at the Grand Prix Final.

At the European Championships 2012 in Sheffield Pechalat and Bourzat defended their title. At the 2012 World Championships in Nice, the French won on home soil in the ninth starting with their long-awaited world championship bronze medal.

Results

Ice Dancing

( with Nathalie Pechalat )