Patrick Chan
Patrick Chan ( born December 31, 1990 in Ottawa, Ontario ) is a Canadian figure skater who starts in a single run. He is the world champion of 2011, 2012 and 2013 and the Four Continents winner in 2009 and 2012. He holds the world record for freestyle points and overall performance.
Career
Origin and first successes
Chan was born in 1990 as the only child of Chinese parents in Canada. His mother, a former lab technician, emigrated in their twenties for study from Hong Kong to Montreal, his father at the age of four years to Ottawa. Both parents went to different sports such as skiing, tennis, martial arts and dance, the father, attorney and chief of staff of the provincial minister of citizenship and immigration, among others, had local success as a table tennis player. After moving from Ottawa to Toronto Chan began at the age of six years, at the urging of his mother with the figure skating at the local Granite Club, in preparation for the ice hockey. He took a liking to the sport and stuck with it, though Chan was also considered a good skier and had been followed up with two years of this sport.
Chan was trained by Ellen Burka and Osborne Colson (1916-2006), who had worked among others, the former Canadian world champions Barbara Ann Scott and Donald Jackson. He made nationally for the first time in 2003, attracted attention when he won "pre- novice " ( "pre -novice "), the Canadian champion title. A year later, Chan triumphed in the championships of the " beginner " ( " Novice "). After winning the Canadian championship title of the juniors in 2005, the 14- year-old received the invitation to participate in the World Junior Championships in Kitchener, Canada. As the youngest participants Chan won the victory was three years older Japanese Nobunari Oda a seventh place. In the following years he had often to suffer from burnout phases, which he tried to compensate with other sports such as tennis or golf.
In the season 2005/2006 Chan participated in the Junior Grand Prix. He won the competition in Montreal and finished the competition in Slovakia and in the Junior Grand Prix Final a fourth or fifth. He also made his debut in the senior class at the Canadian Championships, where he finished seventh place in the victory of his eight years older compatriot Jeffrey Buttle. In the subsequent World Junior Championships in Ljubljana, Slovenia improved compared to the previous year to a sixth place, although he had still after the short program at the Bronze Square. In July 2006, died Chan's longtime coach Osborne Colson, who had supported him during his public appearance and nutrition. Chan, who was four times the toe loop in the summer of 2006 and worked on the triple axel, moved to the co-operation with the Japanese Shin Amano in 2007 to coach Don Laws, the well-known runners like former U.S. Olympic champion Scott Hamilton and his compatriot Michael Weiss had counted on his charges.
Change to seniors
In the season 2006/2007 of 15 -year-old Chan moved to the seniors, where he made his debut at the Paris Trophée Eric Bompard. With a modern short program to music by Klaus Badelt or a classic freestyle (Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons ) he reached fifth place in the victory of the later French world and European champion Brian Joubert. He then stepped up to even at the NHK Trophy 2006 in Nagano, Japan and reached another top ten finish ( 7th), while Chan just finished fifth at the Canadian Senior Championships. For this he won at the Junior World Championships in Oberstdorf with the silver medal behind the American Stephen Carriere, the first men's singles medal for 23 years for Canada.
The sporty breakthrough for Chan turned on in the following 2007/2008 season, in which he Ground surrounded his short program to music by Chinese composer Tan Dun and his triple axel perfected. At Skate America, the first Grand Prix competition, finished the Canadians still behind the Japanese Daisuke Takahashi and American Evan Lysacek a third place. The Trophée Eric Bompard, the 16 -year-old Canadians finally sat down with Best Performance by ( in the absence of Brian Joubert ) to eventual champion Sergei Voronov Russian and the French Alban Preaubert. After a fifth place in the Grand Prix Final Chan won in 2008 as a recent runner also the Canadian championship title of the seniors against his eight years his senior compatriot Jeffrey Buttle. In the following World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden in March he did not come with a win over a ranked ninth by Buttle addition, after having had the ranks seven and eleven occupied in the short program and the free skate.
In the 2008/2009 season, Chan was able to build on previous successes. He presented his program with his trainer Donald Laws and his choreographer Lori Nichol to Vanessa Mae's interpretation of Walter Taiebs Tango de los Exilados ( short program ) and Sergei Rachmaninoff's Cello Sonata or the 2nd Piano Concerto ( Freestyle) by winning the Skate Canada Competition, repeated his victory at the Trophée Eric Bompard and finished the Grand Prix Final in South Korea Goyang fifth place. This was followed in the absence of retired world champion Jeffrey Buttle winning the title at the Canadian championships and the victory at the Four Continents Championship in Vancouver Evan Lysacek and the Japanese Takahiko Kozuka. With a score of 249.19 he achieved his best result so far in an international competition.
As a medal contender in the World Championships in Los Angeles traded, Chan had just defeated Evan Lysacek and won his first World Cup silver medal in the senior. Following the resignation of Jeffrey Buttle Chan was in Canada as a medal hopeful for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver native and has been compared by his early successes with such well-known compatriots like Browning or Brian Orser. In advance of the Canadians had criticized the running styles of its competitors Yevgeny Plyushchenko and Brian Joubert, who relied on quadruple jumps as old-fashioned. Instead, Chan praised his artistic style, in which he placed more emphasis on the transitions and dance sequences as those of the future. This was rated higher after the introduction of a new rating system in the 2004/05 season. Although Chan was at the Olympics by finishing five domestic expectations do not meet, but won with the American Lysacek also one more on the artistic style of running -oriented athletes, the sudden strong Plyushchenko. Looking back, he got called up to that time, only 60 percent of its sporty performance levels, as Chan in April 2011.
At the World Figure Skating Championships 2010 in Turin Chan could again win the silver medal, this time behind Daisuke Takahashi, win. As in the previous year had his routine from any of the mandatory quadruple jumps. From the 8th January 2011, he announced a coaching change. From then on he trained with Lori Nichol, his long-time choreographer, and Christy Krall, a technical specialist in Colorado.
First quadruple jumps and world records
In December 2010, Chan won the Grand Prix Final with a new personal best of 259.75 points. A month later, he became the fourth consecutive Canadian champion. He showed in his free program to the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera for the first time two quadruple Toeloops. With 285.85 points, he set a new national record. This value would have improved the three -year-old world record of Daisuke Takahashi by more than 20 points, he would have been run at a recognized by the ISU international competition. Chan decided not to start at the Four Continents Championship, Daisuke Takahashi won. This season, Chan spoke about wanting to dominate the figure skating for years and was successful athletes Roger Federer, Peyton Manning and Tiger Woods as role models. With Kathy Johnson, Juilliard School graduate and teacher in Modern Dance from the summer of 2010 he had tried to approach the ideal ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov closer. Chan worked with the World Figure Skating experienced Johnson, among others, his posture, breathing and preparation for each element.
At the end of April 2011 held World Cup, which was postponed due to a major earthquake in Japan to Moscow, the favored 20 -year-old gave his best performance in a short program. To his jazz interpretation Take Five Chan was a combination of Vierfach-Toeloop/Dreifach-Toeloop, a triple axel and a triple flip, and he with 93.02 points previously formulated at the European Championships in 2010 world record by Yevgeny Plyushchenko ( 91,30 ) surpassed. With an almost flawless freestyle to Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantasia, which also included the toe loop combination, he also won the Kürwertung with a world record of 187.96 points ahead of Japanese Takahiko Kozuka and the Russians Artur Gatschinski. With 280.98 points Chan surpassed the world record achieved in 2008 by the Japanese Takahashi to 16.57 points.
At the 2012 World Championships in Nice Patrick Chan managed to defend the title. Despite ranking first in the short program and free skating of the points lead was lower compared to its überragendem victory in the previous year. This was due mainly two mistakes in his free program to the music of Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez. As Chan already two quadruple Toeloops had stood ( one of them in a quadruple - triple toe loop combination), and a triple axel, he bailed on his triple Lutz- Half - toe loop - triple Salchow combination and missed the double Axel jump completely. Even throughout the season Chan had had problems with the Lutz, this time led the shaky landing to the impossibility of perfect execution of the next two jumps in the combination. The omission of his Axel Chan founded with the residue behind the music, he had to catch up and thus hasty receipt of the jump. In the end, Chan was next to the Einpunkteabzug for the overthrow also a point deduction for exceeding the time. In the end he was 6.45 points ahead of Daisuke Takahashi. For Chan had the day of the profits of his second world title and an emotional component, because it was the day on which Osborne Colson, who had taught him to figure skating, birthday would have been.
After Chan had won his sixth national championship, he was in London in 2013 Canadian for the third consecutive time world champion. In the short program with 98.37 points he set a new world record. With a lead of almost seven points on the Kazakhs Denis Ten, he then went into the freestyle. He opened this impressively with a quad toe loop - triple combination and a single quadruple toe loop. However, after he crashed on the triple lutz and triple axel and made numerous other errors in his jumps. Nevertheless, the final score was still one point ahead on Ten to gold.
Could surpass his own world records again Chan at the Trophée Eric Bompard in November 2013: After a flawless freestyle with two quadruple Toeloops and seven triple jumps, which was rewarded with 196.75 points, he reached with a total score of 295.27 points, the first place.
Private life
Patrick Chan, who is one of the figure skating world champion Kurt Browning and Todd Eldredge for his models, lives in Toronto. He starts for the Granite Club based there. After he had formerly trained alternately in Canada and Florida, is his current training location, the U.S. Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he spends up to 21 hours a week on the ice. In Colorado, Chan was adopted at a university that allows him to be able to studying next to the Sports Trade Theory. Rash to devote themselves after two year break of school, gave his current partner, who is two years older Canadian speed skater Anastasia Bucsis. Previously, Chan had visited the French-language school École secondaire Étienne- Brûlé. He speaks English and French Cantonese and Mandarin broken. Among his hobbies, he counts among other things, playing golf, mountain biking and tennis.
In January 2008, Chan was the Chinese Cultural Centre in Toronto Chinese Canadian Youth of the Year award and a little later awarded by the magazine Asia Network of Asian titles of the Year in arts and sports.
Results
- Z = Withdrawn; N = Novice, J = Junior