Charles Sinek

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**Charles Sinek**
Personal Info
Country:	United States
Date of birth:	December 28, 1968 (1968-12-28) (age 39)
Height:	175 cm
Partner:	Beata Handra
Former Partner:	Regina Woodward
Former Coach:	Inese Bucevica
Skating Club:	SC of New York

Charles Sinek (born December 28, 1968 in Wilmington, North Carolina, USA) is an American ice dancer. With partner and wife Beata Handra, he is the 1999-2002 U.S. national pewter medalist.

1 Biography
2 Competitive highlights
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Biography

Sinek's father, Joachim Sinek, represented Chile at the Olympic Games in the 1950s in fencing.^[1]

He originally skated with his sister Anne Sinek^[2] for several years. After his sister retired, he skated with Regina Woodward at the senior level. He eventually turned professional. He competed at the 1994 Gay Games as a last minute replacement partner for Stephane Vachon, a friend whose partner could not compete with him due to illness. Vachon was about to withdraw, but Sinek volunteered to partner him because he already knew the dance.^[3] They won the gold medal in the Male/Male Compulsory Dance 4 competition.^[4] Sinek reinstated as an amateur in 1995^[5] and began skating with Beata Handra.

Handra and Sinek were married in 1996.

Despite their fourth place finish at the 2002 Nationals, Handra & Sinek earned the United States' second spot to the 2002 Winter Olympics because the two teams who placed above them (Tanith Belbin & Benjamin Agosto and Melissa Gregory & Denis Petukhov) were not eligible to compete at the Olympics due to citizenship problems.