Stefan Lindemann

Stefan Lindemann

Stefan Lindemann at the 2010 European Championships.
Personal information
Full name	Stefan Lindemann
Country represented	Germany
Born	30 September 1980 (1980-09-30) (age 31) Erfurt
Home town	Berlin
Height	1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Coach	Viola Striegler
Former coach	Ilona Schindler Sonja Morgenstern
Choreographer	Iwo Svec
Skating club	Eissportclub Erfurt
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	203.95 2010 Europeans
Short program	70.19 2010 Europeans
Free skate	133.76 2010 Europeans
Medal record Competitor for  Germany Men's Figure Skating World Championships Bronze 2004 Dortmund Men's Singles European Championships Bronze 2005 Turin Men's Singles

Stefan Lindemann (born 30 September 1980 in Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany) is a German figure skater. He is a seven-time (2000, 2002, 2004–2007, 2010) German national champion, the 2004 World bronze medalist, and the 2000 World Junior Champion.

Contents 1 Career 2 Programs 3 Competitive highlights 3.1 Post-2001 3.2 Pre-2001 4 References

Career

Stefan Lindeman started skating at age 4 in Erfurt at the local skating club. At age 12 he wanted to play ice hockey, but his mother kept him in figure skating. His coach is Ilona Schindler. After finishing his school be became sponsored by the Bundeswehr (German Army).

In 1995 at age 14 Stefan Lindemann made his first successful appearance in the international figure skating scene by placing fourth at the junior world championships. In 1996 he placed 12th at the German nationals. He placed fourth in the same event in 1997, second in 1999, and first in 2000, becoming the German champion. In 2000 he also surprisingly and sensationally won the junior world championships. This was the first junior world champion title for the German Figure Skating Organisation, Deutsche Eislauf-Union.

Later that year he tore a ligament in his right knee and pulled a muscle in his talocalcanean joint at the Sparkassen-Cup.

In 2004 he returned to the top of the figure skating world, became German champion and won the bronze medal at the World championships in Dortmund. In 2005 he won the bronze medal at the Europeans. However he was very unlucky at the World championships 2005, where he messed up all possible jumps in the short program. Finally he was placed 12th at the Worlds 2005 thanks to a very strong performance in the free program.

He is the most successful German figure skater in the men's single event since Norbert Schramm, who won silver in both 1982 and 1983 at the World championships.

Lindemann withdrew from the 2006-2007 Grand Prix series due to injury.

He returned to skating in 2009 and won the German Men's championship and then in 2010 placed 9th at the European Championship and represented Germany in the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. In the Olympics he received a mark of 68.50 in the short program, placing 17th. In the long program he received a mark of 103.48, placing 23rd in the long program.Over all he received 171.98. Overall results he claimed 22 in the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.^[1]

Lindemann retired from competitive skating right after the Olympics in 2010. He has become a coach, working in Berlin, and remains in the German army.^[2]

Programs

Season	Short Program	Free Skating	Exhibition
2009-2010	The Firm (soundtrack) by Dave Grusin	Hancock (soundtrack) by John Powell

Competitive highlights

Post-2001

Event	2001-2002	2002-2003	2003-2004	2004-2005	2005-2006	2006-2007	2008-2009	2009-2010
Winter Olympic Games					21st			22nd
World Championships			3rd	12th		12th
European Championships	12th	12th	5th	3rd	12th	11th		9th
German Championships	1st	2nd	1st	1st	1st	1st		1st
Cup of Russia					4th
NHK Trophy					11th
Skate America			9th	9th
Skate Canada International				6th
Cup of China				3rd
Trophée Lalique			11th
Bofrost Cup	7th		1st	1st
Nebelhorn Trophy	8th				1st			8th
Merano Cup								8th
Ondrej Nepela Memorial		2nd	2nd	1st
Finlandia Trophy	8th
Ice Challenge								5th
NRW Trophy							16th

• Lindemann did not compete in the 2007-2008 season.

Pre-2001

Event	1993-1994	1994-1995	1995-1996	1996-1997	1997-1998	1998-1999	1999-2000	2000-2001
World Championships						13th	14th	18th
European Championships						17th	8th
World Junior Championships						14th	1st
German Championships	11th J.	4th J.	12th	5th		2nd	1st
Karl Schäfer Memorial								5th
Golden Spin of Zagreb						3rd
Junior Grand Prix Final						4th	2nd
Junior Grand Prix, Slovenia							1st
Junior Grand Prix, Canada							5th
Junior Grand Prix, Bulgaria						2nd
Junior Grand Prix, Germany					12th	2nd
Junior Grand Prix, Ukraine					4th
Gardena Spring Trophy				2nd
Pokal der Blauen Schwerter				15th

• J = Junior level

References

• Ice Challenge Senior Mens Results http://www.slovakskating.org/results/2009/10/28/graz/CAT001RS.HTM

• Official Site (German)
• Official Fansite at AbsoluteSkating
• Stefan Lindemann at the International Skating Union

World Junior champions in figure skating – Men's singles 1976: Mark Cockerell 1977: Daniel Beland 1978: Dennis Coi 1979: Vitali Egorov 1980: Alexander Fadeyev 1981: Paul Wylie 1982: Scott Williams 1983: Christopher Bowman 1984: Viktor Petrenko 1985: Erik Larson 1986: Vladimir Petrenko 1987: Rudy Galindo 1988: Todd Eldredge 1989: Viacheslav Zagorodniuk 1990: Igor Pashkevich 1991: Vasili Eremenko 1992: Dmitri Dmitrenko 1993: Evgeni Pliuta 1994: Michael Weiss 1995: Ilia Kulik 1996: Alexei Yagudin 1997: Evgeni Plushenko 1998: Derrick Delmore 1999: Ilia Klimkin 2000: Stefan Lindemann 2001: Johnny Weir 2002: Daisuke Takahashi 2003: Alexander Shubin 2004: Andrei Griazev 2005: Nobunari Oda 2006: Takahiko Kozuka 2007: Stephen Carriere 2008–2009: Adam Rippon 2010: Yuzuru Hanyu 2011: Andrei Rogozine

German champions in figure skating – Men's Singles 1891: Anon Schmitson 1892–93: Georg Zachariades 1894: Gustav Hügel 1895–96: Gilbert Fuchs 1897: Karl Zenger 1900–01: Wilhelm Zenger 1903: Ludwig Niedermeyer 1904: Heinrich Burger 1905: Karl Zenger 1906–07: Heinrich Burger 1909: Gilbert Fuchs 1911–13: Werner Rittberger 1914: Hugo Metzner 1920–26: Werner Rittberger 1927: Paul Franke 1928: Werner Rittberger 1929: Paul Franke 1930–32: Leopold Maier-Labergo 1933–38: Ernst Baier 1939–41: Horst Faber 1942: Erich Zeller 1943: Edi Rada 1944: Horst Faber 1947–51: Horst Faber 1952–54: Freimut Stein 1955: Tilo Gutzeit 1956–61: Manfred Schnelldorfer 1962: Sepp Schönmetzler 1963–64: Manfred Schnelldorfer 1965: Sepp Schönmetzler 1966–68: Peter Krick 1969: Reinhard E. Ketterer 1970–71: Klaus Grimmelt 1972: Harald Kuhn 1973–75: Erich Reifschneider 1976: Gert-Walter Gräbner 1977: Kurt Kürzinger 1978: Rudi Cerne 1979: Norbert Schramm 1980: Rudi Cerne 1981: Norbert Schramm 1982–83: Heiko Fischer 1984: Norbert Schramm 1985–86: Heiko Fischer 1987: Richard Zander 1988: Heiko Fischer 1989: Richard Zander 1990–91: Daniel Weiss 1992: Mirko Eichhorn 1993–94: Ronny Winkler 1995–97: Andrejs Vlascenko 1998: Sven Meyer 1999: Andrejs Vlascenko 2000: Stefan Lindemann 2001: Silvio Smalun 2002: Stefan Lindemann 2003: Silvio Smalun 2004–07: Stefan Lindemann 2008: Clemens Brummer 2009: Peter Liebers 2010: Stefan Lindemann 2011: Peter Liebers

Persondata
Name	Lindemann, Stefan
Alternative names
Short description	German figure skater
Date of birth	September 30, 1980
Place of birth	Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany
Date of death
Place of death