Jozef SabovÄÃk
Jozef Sabovčík ( born December 4, 1963 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak figure skater who started in a single run for Czechoslovakia.
Jozef Sabovčík began at the age of seven years, at the request of his grandmother with the figure skating. Later Sabovčík said that he owed his grandmother a large part of his success. During his amateur career was Sabovčik 1979-1984 six-time national champion of Czechoslovakia in 1985 and 1986, two-time European champion. He also won the bronze medal at the 1984 Olympics behind Scott Hamilton and Brian Orser. Sabovčík was trained by Agnesa Búřilová.
Sabovčík was a big jump talent, which is why he was nicknamed "Jumping Joe". In 1986 he finished due to health problems his amateur career and worked in Germany and later in Toronto (Canada) as a coach. There he met the Canadian figure skater Toller Cranston, who brought him to again qualify themselves on the ice. He improved his artistic expression and learned the backflip, which he landed on one foot, which he was the first man in the world. Later Sabovčík was world champion figure skater and has appeared in various TV shows.
In 1999 he married his second wife Jennifer Verili. He has two sons. Sabovčík is fluent in English, Slovak, Czech, German and Russian. He now owns next to the Slovak and Canadian citizenship. Despite the division of his homeland to continue Sabovčík regarded as Czechoslovak.
Results
Sources and links
- Jozef Sabovčík at Sports- Reference.com (English)
- Sabovcik 's Home Page Engl.
- Online Interview at Golden Skate Engl.
1891: Oskar Uhlig | 1892-94: Eduard Engelmann Jr. | 1895: Tibor of Földváry | 1896-1897 not held | 1898-1900: Ulrich Salchow | 1901: Gustav hill | 1902-1903 not held | 1904: Ulrich Salchow | 1905 Max Bohatsch | 1906-07: Ulrich Salchow | 1908: Ernst Herzfeld | 1909-10: Ulrich Salchow | 1911: Per Thorén | 1912 Gösta Sandahl | 1913: Ulrich Salchow | 1914: Fritz Kachler | 1915-1921 not held | 1922 -23: Willy Böckl | 1924 Fritz Kachler | 1925-28: Willy Böckl | 1929-36: Karl Schäfer | 1937-38: Felix Kaspar | 1939: Graham Sharp | 1940-1946 not held | 1947: Hans Gerschwiler | 1948: Richard button | 1949: Edi Rada | 1950: Ede Király | 1951-52: Helmut Seibt | 1953-54: Carlo Fassi | 1955-57: Alain Giletti | 1958-59: Karol Divín | 1960-61: Alain Giletti | 1962 - 64: Alain Calmat | 1965-68: Emmerich Danzer | 1969-73: Ondrej Nepela | 1974: Jan Hoffmann | 1975: Vladimir Kovalev | 1976: John Curry | 1977-79: Jan Hoffmann | 1980: Robin Cousins | 1981 Igor Bobrin | 1982-83: Norbert Schramm | 1984: Alexander Fadeev | 1985-86: Jozef Sabovčík | 1987-89: Alexander Fadeev | 1990-91: Viktor Petrenko | 1992: Petr Barna | 1993: Dmitri Dmitrenko | 1994: Viktor Petrenko | 1995: Ilya Kulik | 1996: Vyacheslav Sagorodnjuk | 1997: Alexei Urmanow | 1998-99: Alexei Yagudin | 2000-01: Yevgeny Plyushchenko | 2002: Alexei Yagudin | 2003: Yevgeny Plyushchenko | 2004: Brian Joubert | 2005-06: Yevgeny Plyushchenko | 2007: Brian Joubert | 2008: Tomáš Verner | 2009: Brian Joubert | 2010: Yevgeny Plyushchenko | 2011: Florent Amodio | 2012: Yevgeny Plyushchenko | 2013-14: Javier Fernández
- Skaters (Czechoslovakia)
- European Champion (Figure Skating)
- Czechoslovakian champion (Figure Skating)
- Olympian (Czechoslovakia)
- Slovak
- Born in 1963
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