Zhang Dan

Zhang Dan (Chinese张丹, Pinyin Zhang Dan, * October 4, 1985 in Harbin ) is a former Chinese figure skater, which was launched in pair skating.

Zhang, who was born in Harbin, the center of Chinese figure skating sport, began at the age of seven years with the figure skating. Since 1997, she stepped to the side of Zhang Hao for the skating club Harbin pair skating. Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao are not related. They were of Yao Bin, who was in 1980 the first Chinese participants at the World Championships in pair skating with partner Luan Bo, trained.

Unlike the other two successful Chinese couple Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo and Pang Qing / Tong Jian Zhang / Zhang had great success already at junior level. At the Junior World Championships 2000 in Oberstdorf, the pair showed a fourfold throw Lutz, the first ever in this competition. 2001 and 2003 they were junior world champion. They were the first Chinese Junior World Champion in pair skating. In 2001 and 2002 she also won the Grand Prix final of the juniors.

2002 debuted Zhang / Zhang in the seniors. In her first Four Continents Championships, they won the bronze medal at once. At the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City they were Eleventh and at their first World Cup Ninth. 2003, they were Chinese champion in pair skating. They won again bronze medal at the Four Continents Championships and the World Cup could be improved by three places to sixth place. The year 2004 saw both championships at one place up. They won the silver medal at the Four Continents Championships and occupied the fifth place at the World Cup.

The final breakthrough came in 2005. Was not until they decided the Four Continents Championship for themselves and then they won bronze in Moscow with her ​​first World Cup medal. Its peak reached Zhang / Zhang in 2006 when she Olympic silver medalist behind the Russians Tatiana and Maxim Marinin Totmjanina were in Turin. They were placed in front of their higher rated and far more experienced compatriots Shen / Zhao and Pang / Tong and despite a heavy crash of Zhang Dan in the freestyle while attempting a thrown Vierfachsalchows. A few weeks later, they were also runners-up behind Pang Qing and Tong Jian in Calgary. At the World Championships in 2008 and 2009, Zhang Hao and Zhang Dan vice-champion Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy behind. They also won silver and bronze at the Four Continents Championships.

In 2010 she won her second title at the Four Continents Championships, but under weak competition. Both in her third Olympics as well as the World Cup they finished fifth in victories of their countrymen.

2012 ended Zhang Dan their figure skating career. She is studying now.

Results

Pair of running

( with Zhang Hao )

Winter Olympic Games 2005 World Figure Skating Championships 2006 World Figure Skating Championships 2008 World Figure Skating Championships 2009 World Figure Skating Championships Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final 1980 World Figure Skating Championships World Junior Figure Skating Championships Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics 2002 World Figure Skating Championships 2003 World Figure Skating Championships 2004 World Figure Skating Championships 2010 World Figure Skating Championships List of Olympic medalists in figure skating 2007 World Figure Skating Championships Skate America Skate Canada International Cup of Russia NHK Trophy Cup of China International Skating Union David Pelletier Sui Wenjing Han Cong Meagan Duhamel Eric Radford Barbara Underhill Ingo Steuer Kristi Yamaguchi Maxim Trankov Julia Vlassov
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