Victor Kraatz

Victor Kraatz ( born April 7, 1971 in Berlin) is a former Canadian figure skater, who started ice dancing.

Victor Kraatz began at the age of nine with the ice skating. He was born in West Berlin, grew up in Switzerland and later emigrated to Canada. In Switzerland he was ice dancers and ran together with the Swiss Analisa Beltrami. After he came to Canada, Taryn O'Neill was his Eistanzpartnerin. From 20 April 1991 to the end of the skating career was Victor Kraatz Shae -Lynn Bourne with. The ice dance had several consecutive coach, Josée Picard, Eric Gillies, Tatiana Tarasova, Natalia Dubova, Uschi Keszler, Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko, and Nikolai Morozov. Victor Kraatz started for the CPA Boucherville. At the end of her amateur career Bourne and Kraatz trained in Newington, Connecticut.

In 1993, Bourne and Kraatz for the first time Canadian Eistanzmeister and debuted at the World Championships. In 1996, she won bronze with her ​​first World Cup medal. The same result they achieved in 1997, 1998 and 1999. They won in 1999 in Halifax, the inaugural Four Continents Championship. This they succeeded in 2001 and again in 2003. In 2002 she was vice-champion and 2003 in Washington finally world champions. It was the first world title in ice dancing for a Canadian and North American couple ever. Three times took Bourne and Kraatz participate in the Olympics, but without winning a medal. In 1994, she occupied the tenth place in 1998 and in 2002 they were fourth. After winning the World Cup in 2003 they finished their competitive career.

Bourne and Kraatz were ten times Canadian champion and won six times at the Grand Prix Competition Skate Canada, so they are each record winner. Twice they were victorious at the Grand Prix Final.

On June 19, 2004 Kraatz married the Finnish Eistänzerin Maikki Uotila. Together they work as a coach in Vancouver. The couple has two sons ( born 2006 and 2010 ).

Results

Ice Dancing

( with Shae -Lynn Bourne )

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