Sarah Hecken
Sarah Hecken (* 27 August 1993 in Mannheim ) is a German figure skater who starts in a single run. She is German champion of the years 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2013.
Biography
Sarah Hedges began at the age of three years with the ice skating. Since 1997 by the regional trainer Peter Sczypa trained runner of the Mannheimer ERC won four times in a row in their respective age group national championship, was already twelve years old Baden-Württemberg champion of seniors and defended that title in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011. at the German Championships 2008 in Dresden, she won a surprise as 14 -year-old seniors competition. Thus, it is as individual runners the recent German champion in the history of the German Skating Union. Despite title victory, she was still too young to participate in the European Championship (16 years ) allowed. At the German Championships 2010 in Mannheim hedges won in her hometown with 157.49 points for the second time the championship.
Your first international success came hedges with the first place finish at the Junior Grand Prix 2007 in Chemnitz, which also meant the first victory of a German individual runners in the 2000 introduced competition series. 2008 was followed by bronze at Junior Grand Prix in Merano. 2009 occupied hedges in 7th place for the Junior World Championships in Sofia. End of the season they surprised everyone with gold at the Triglav Trophy in Jesenice 2009 and at the same time their first victory of an ISU senior competition.
In the Olympic season 2009/2010 they officially launched the first internationally in the senior class. Because of their 18 world rankings place she was invited to the USA and Canada to the was holding ISU Senior Grand Prix. As the only German figure skater, it reached at two international ISU competitions, the Olympic standard and qualified for the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. At the 2010 Winter Olympics, she traveled at the age of 16 years as the youngest athlete of the entire German Olympic team and was awarded the title of Olympic media chick. At the games she reached the 18th place. During her debut at the 2010 World Championships in Turin, she took twelfth place and once again securing their start authorization for the senior Grand Prix series in 2010.
In the season 2010/2011 hedges took two medals at ISU competitions. When IceChallenge 2010 in Graz, she took the 3rd place. In Dortmund at the NRW Trophy she won with an error-free skating program with five triple jumps silver home. In January 2011, Hecken won in Oberstdorf with 149.11 points, its third German championship and secured himself as the only German individual runners will participate in the 2011 European Championships in Bern and 2011 World Championships in Moscow. At the European Championships she missed by a hundredth of a point, a place in the top ten, finishing with a total of 137.43 points 11th place. Your best performance of the season they showed at the 2011 World Championships in Moscow. With 155.83 points she brought also the 11th Place and once again securing their personal start authorization for two senior Grand Prix competitions in the season 2011 /12.
During the German Championships 2013/14, where she finished only second behind Nathalie Weinzierl, she moved to Berlin to train with Stefan Lindemann.
She attended the comprehensive school Mannheim- Herzogenried and laid there in 2012 successfully from her high school. In summer 2012, she joined the Bundeswehr as a sports soldier. In the spring of 2010, the city of Mannheim Sarah Hedges chose sportswoman of the year 2009.