Patrick Péra
Patrick Pera ( born January 17, 1949 in Lyon, France ) is a former French figure skater who started in a single run.
Life
After Alain Calmat in 1965 resigned, Pera dominated in the following years, the men's competition at the French championships, which he won from 1966 to 1972. With a fourth place at the European Championship in 1966 and a sixth place finish at the 1966 World Cup he also quickly set up the connection succeeded best in the world. His first international medal he won at the 1968 Olympic Games in Grenoble. Behind Wolfgang Schwarz and Tim Wood, he received the bronze medal, although he was poor both in the place number and in the score as the fourth-placed Emmerich Danzer. Pera benefited from the fact that just not the place number but the scores of the judges ruled, one of which saw him most before Danzer, although Danzer was the best Kürwertung. In the subsequent World Cup in Geneva Emmerich Danzer won the title before Tim Wood, Pera again received bronze.
In the next two years Pera occupied at the European Championships each second behind Ondrej Nepela, at the World Championships 1969 he won bronze behind Tim Wood and Ondrej Nepela; In 1970 he finished fourth behind Wood, Nepela and Günter Zöller. 1971 was Pera from the European Championship, but was able to win at the World Championship silver behind Nepela before the European Championship Second Sergei Tschetweruchin. In 1972 he won bronze behind Nepela and Tschetweruchin at the European Championships and at the Olympic Games. After the Olympics, Pera finished his amateur career.
Pera was not so brilliant as Emmerich Danzer Kürläufer or Tim Wood, but a more balanced figure skaters. Based on a usually solid duty rating, he risked little in the freestyle and therefore remained mostly error-free. The audience he gained more by dancing skills and show elements than by his jumping ability.