figure skating Strong World Championship start for Schott - couple Hocke/Kunkel without a chance Annika Hocke and Robert Kunkel, who came third at the European Championships, no longer have a chance of a top spot at the World Figure Skating Championships. photo © Hiro Komae/AP The start of the World Figure Skating Championships is disappointing for the German couple Annika Hocke and Robert Kunkel after injury problems. Nicole Schott, on the other hand, can be satisfied. For Annika Hocke and...
figure skating German EM third without a chance at figure skating world championships Annika Hocke and Robert Kunkel, who came third at the European Championships, no longer have a chance of a top spot at the World Figure Skating Championships. photo © Hiro Komae/AP There will probably be no place on the World Cup podium for Hocke and Kunkel. The figure skaters suffer from back problems. For Annika Hocke and Robert Kunkel, who came third at the European Championships, the...
"You need to position your right leg better!" That's how it is, that's good! In a still hesitant French, Irina Babchenko delivers her instructions this Monday afternoon on the ice of the Rennes ice rink. White jacket and black pants, the trainer supervises like every day about fifteen young skaters from the Club des Sports de Glace (CSG). "I had never worked with children and it's too good, they are too cute," she smiles.A year ago, this former ice dancing...
It was still spring when Annika Hocke and Robert Kunkel packed their bags. They had organized a trial session in Bergamo, far away from Berlin, where they saw no prospects for themselves after the departure of international training couples. "We didn't really want to leave," said Robert Kunkel recently, because such a new start posed an acute danger of black ice for the young couple. The risk was worth it: Annika Hocke and Robert Kunkel, 22 and 23 years old,...
The Berlin pair runners Annika Hocke and Robert Kunkel are third at the European Championships. source site
Title fights in Finland Figure skating pair Hocke/Kunkel wins EM bronze Annika Hocke and Robert Kunkel took third place at the European Championships. photo © Antti Hamalainen/Lehtikuva/AP/dpa Five years after the Olympic victory of Aljona Savchenko and Bruno Massot, the Berlin pair runners Annika Hocke/Robert Kunkel win a bronze medal at the European Championships in Finland. The Berlin pair skaters Annika Hocke and Robert Kunkel won the bronze medal at the European Figure Skating Championships in Espoo, Finland. In the...
figure skating "Suspension follows": If Valiyewa does not end before EM The doping case of Kamila Valiyeva from Russia is not over yet. photo © Peter Kneffel/dpa The doping scandal surrounding figure skater Kamila Valiewa continues. Not only she is missing at the EM. Russia is not allowed to start because of the Ukraine war. This increases the German chances of winning a medal. Kamila Valiyeva deleted the gold medal emoji for winning the 2021 Russian Figure Skating Championships in...
French figure skating has just lost Thursday the one who was at the origin of the tsunami of sexual violence in the discipline three years ago. In January 2020, former skater Sarah Abitbol, bronze medalist at the 2000 world championships, had indeed accused her ex-trainer Gilles Beyer of having raped her at 15, in her book. Such a long silence. He died at the age of 66 on Thursday, after suffering from cancer for several years, announces The New Obs....
Anyone who enters the ice rink in Oberstdorf is confronted with the past in showcases after only a few meters: with pictures of Norbert Schramm on skates, with posters of the dance legends Torvill/Dean and the golden couple Savchenko/Massot, some pictures more, some less yellowed . It's been a while since the glamor days of figure skating. Which does not mean that there are no contemporary witnesses. Nicole Schott, for example, who lives in Oberstdorf, remembers her first championships well...
cold Frosty weather puts the Netherlands into skating fever Now that the temperatures have dropped below freezing in the Netherlands, skating on natural ice is possible in various regions. photo © Rob Engelaar/ANP/dpa Ice skating is a popular sport in the Netherlands. When the weather is frosty, many now take their shoes out of the closet. But does the frost last long enough and is the ice thick enough? Ice skating fever has set in again in the Netherlands in...
