Kevin van der Perren

Kevin van der Perren ( born August 6, 1982 in Ninove ) is a Belgian former figure skater, who started in a single run.

Career

Van der confinement desire to become a figure skater, began as a figure skating show came to his hometown. Although his parents would have preferred to see him as a football player and he was teased by classmates, he gave up his dream of becoming a figure skater does not occur. Quite late, at the age of ten, he began using the treadmill. Van der Perren was devoted also to the swimming sport he finally gave up after his first World Cup participation in figure skating.

At the Junior World Cup 2002 won van der Perren behind Daisuke Takahashi the silver medal. He was there as the first runners in the world, a jump combination of three triple jumps ( salchow - toe loop - Rittberger ). By the end of the 2003/04 season he retained this combination in his free skating program.

Van der Perren is the first Belgian, who showed a quadruple jump in competition and that a quadruple toe loop.

A hip injury that he had suffered after the Olympic Winter Games in 2006, forcing him to cancel the 2006 World Cup. Also at the European Championship 2007, he was considering not to go at the start, but did it finally and won the bronze medal with 0.07 points ahead of Sergei Davydov. He was the first Belgian individual runners since Fernand Leemans 1947, who won a medal at the European Championships.

At the World Championship 2008 he scored with the 6th place his best finish at a World Cup. Before the season 2008/ 09 he had to undergo hip replacement surgery again. But despite the pain, he again won the bronze medal at the European Championships 2009.

In the 2009/2010 season, van der Perren always struggling with problems. At the European Championships, he was only 11 and 17 in his third Olympics, up it went again at the World Championships. After a strong freestyle, in which he ever showed the first figure skaters a quadruple - triple toe loop - triple combination, he was eighth. Van der Perren told later that he would have never tried this combination followed by a triple Axel in practice and that he had run in honor of his grandfather, who had died the night before the long program.

At the European Championship 2011 in Berne van der Perren took fourth place. At the World Cup, it was enough for him, but only for 17th place.

In autumn 2011, van der Perren won the silver medal at the Grand Prix Competition Skate America, but he even won the freestyle. He announced to want to deny the European championships last competition of his career. Due to a wrist injury but he had to give up before the long program. He then decided, nor participate in the 2012 World Championships in Nice. In Nice in 2000, he had also contested his first World Championship. After a flawed short program showed van der Perren in his freestyle one of his best career performances. He stood two quadruple jumps, a triple axel and seven other triple jumps, three of them in combination. This had shown no figure skaters at the World Cup in front of him. After the competition ended van der Perren his competitive career and is now concentrating on his career as a figure skating coach.

Others

At the Olympic Winter Games in Turin in 2006 and Vancouver 2010 van der Perren standard-bearer of his country. He is married to the British figure skater Jenna McCorkell since 2008.

Van der Perren is one of the skaters who were not trained in the spirit of the old rating system, but also already competed under evaluation of the new rating system. The focus of his training was always on the jumps and jump combinations, which were also his great strength. The components that were given much weight in the new scoring system, such as transitions and step sequences, he could not learn. Pirouettes he could not even work out because in his training hall in Belgium, the ice in the middle of 27 centimeters was higher than at the edge.

Results

2007 European Figure Skating Championships Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final Single skating World Junior Figure Skating Championships Toe loop jump Loop jump 2008 World Figure Skating Championships 2010 European Figure Skating Championships 2010 World Figure Skating Championships 2011 World Figure Skating Championships 2012 European Figure Skating Championships 2012 World Figure Skating Championships List of Olympic medalists in figure skating Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics 2000 World Figure Skating Championships 2001 World Figure Skating Championships 2002 World Figure Skating Championships 2003 World Figure Skating Championships 2004 World Figure Skating Championships 2005 World Figure Skating Championships 2009 World Figure Skating Championships 2000 European Figure Skating Championships 2001 European Figure Skating Championships 2002 European Figure Skating Championships 2003 European Figure Skating Championships 2004 European Figure Skating Championships 2005 European Figure Skating Championships 2006 European Figure Skating Championships 2008 European Figure Skating Championships 2011 European Figure Skating Championships Skate Canada International Cup of Russia NHK Trophy International Skating Union
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