Personal information | |
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Full name | Tamar Katz |
Country represented | Israel |
Born | September 26, 1988 Dallas, Texas |
Height | 1.61 m (5 ft 3 in) |
Coach | Peter Johansson Mark Mitchell. |
Former coach | Mary-Lynn Gelderman Peter Burrows Galit Chait Galina Zmievskaia Anthony Liu |
Choreographer | Lea Ann Miller |
Former choreographer | Nikolai Morozov |
Skating club | Metulla Club |
ISU personal best scores | |
Combined total | 126.09 2007 Europeans |
Short program | 47.15 2007 Europeans |
Free skate | 79.64 2008 Europeans |
Tamar Katz (Hebrew: תמר כץ) (born September 26, 1988, in Dallas, Texas, United States of America) is an Israeli figure skater. She is the 2005, 2007, and 2008 Israeli national champion.
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Katz began skating as an extracurricular activity at the age of 9 and became more serious about skating a year later.[1][2]
Katz's best season was 2006–7, when she medalled at the Golden Spin of Zagreb, finished 13th at the European Championships and qualified for the free skate at Worlds. In 2008, she was 16th at the Europeans and 22nd at Worlds.
Katz suffered from a stress fracture to her right foot and a broken hand on December 2008 and missed the 2009 European championships. She finished 25th at the World Championships.
Katz attempted to qualify for the Olympics at the 2009 Nebelhorn Trophy, and was able to win a spot for Israel in ladies figure skating with her 12th place finish;[3] she was the first Israeli lady to qualify for an Olympic figure skating event.[4] However, suffering from a virus, she had a poor showing at the 2010 Europeans, failing to meet the Israeli Olympic committee's criterion of top-14 finish in the European Championships. Katz appealed this decision with the support of the Israeli Ice Skating Federation, but was not successful. The Israeli Olympic Committee gave up what would have been Katz's spot, which then went to the alternate, Australian skater Cheltzie Lee.[3] Katz stated that "The Israeli Olympic Committee said that they want medals and that I can compete in 2014. What they don't understand is that if they want me to medal at 2014, the crucial exposure and experience that this Olympics would have given me has been taken away."[3] She competed at the 2010 World championships, but did not qualify for the free skate.
Katz's family moved between Israel and the United States when she was growing up. She eventually moved to the United States for training opportunities, and began college studies in 2010.
In September 2010, Katz's brother Ronen was killed in a hit and run accident in New York City.[5]
Event | 2002–2003 | 2003–2004 | 2004–2005 | 2005–2006 | 2006–2007 | 2007–2008 | 2008–2009 | 2009–2010 |
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World Championships | 16th QR | 23rd | 22nd | 25th | 27th | |||
European Championships | 13th | 16th | 21st | |||||
World Junior Championships | 22nd | |||||||
Israeli Championships | 2nd J. | 1st | ||||||
Nebelhorn Trophy | 12th | |||||||
Golden Spin of Zagreb | 2nd | 5th | ||||||
Merano Cup | 4th | |||||||
Karl Schäfer Memorial | 4th | |||||||
Skate Israel | 4th | |||||||
Junior Grand Prix, Bulgaria | 9th | |||||||
Junior Grand Prix, Croatia | 16th | |||||||
Junior Grand Prix, Japan | 12th | |||||||
Junior Grand Prix, Romania | 8th | |||||||
Junior Grand Prix, Germany | 10th | 12th | ||||||
European Youth Olympic Festival | 9th J. |