Mikkeline Kierkgaard

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Mikkeline Kierkgaard, born May 25, 1984 in Hundested, Denmark is a German ice skater. Kierkgaard was a Danish skater but moved to Berlin in May 2002 and has changed her skating representation to Germany.

She started skating in 1987 and has been skating with Norman Jeschke since 2002, and coached by Knut Schubert. Currently lives in Berlin and is a student.

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[edit] Family

She has six younger sisters and brothers, one of her sisters (Anemone Kierkgaard) who is two years younger than Mikkeline used to be a competitive skater also. She also has five foster siblings, three girls (Sille, Michela and Maja) and two boys (Casper and Mats).

[edit] Injuries

Kierkgaard has suffered with a seemingly never ending list of injuries in quick succession, firstly at the beginning of the 2002 season she suffered a concussion after crashing into another skater and hitting her head on the ice. She was later hospitalised with a stomach infection in the winter of 2003. Then in February 2003 she had a heart infection and had to take two months off. During a long period of injury where she couldn’t skate at all for several months Mikkeline wrote a traveller’s guide to Berlin for young Danes.

[edit] Trivia

Kierkgaard is fluent in English and German as well as Danish. She states her hobbies as waterskiing, rollerblading, snowboarding, painting, drawing, reading and writing stories, and says she would like to be a journalist in the future.

Her idol is Michelle Kwan and says of her: "She has always been something special to me. I love her elegance and beauty on the ice. She has great appearance on and off the ice. She's also a very good front-figure as a sportsman."

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NAME Kierkgaard Mikkeline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Danish/German figure skater
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Hundested, Frederiksborg, Denmark
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
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