Gregor Urbas

Gregor Urbas

Urbas in 2007.
Personal information
Country represented Slovenia
Born (1982-11-20) 20 November 1982
Jesenice, SR Slovenia
Home town Ljubljana
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Former coach Gordana Smrekar
Elena Babitskaia
Valeri Babitski
Mojca Kurbos
Former choreographer Alexei Gorshkov
Sergei Petukhov
Sandra Schar
Skating club DKK Stanko Bloudek
Retired 2010
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 187.48
2008 Worlds
Short program 63.43
2008 Europeans
Free skate 125.83
2008 Worlds

Gregor Urbas (born 20 November 1982 in Jesenice) is a Slovenian former competitive figure skater. He is a three-time Golden Spin of Zagreb champion, a five-time Triglav Trophy champion, the 2006 Ondrej Nepela Memorial champion, and a nine-time (2001–2009) Slovenian national champion. He competed at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics. He qualified for the free skate at nineteen ISU Championships – six Worlds, eight Europeans, and five Junior Worlds.

Urbas began skating when he was about eight years old.[1][2] His first coach was Mojca Kurbos.[1] He joined Elena Babitskaia and Valeri Babitski by 2001.[3] They coached him until the end of the 2004–05 season.[4] Gordana Smrekar became his coach the following season.[5] During his career, he practiced mainly in Slovenia and occasionally traveled to Philadelphia to train under Uschi Keszler.[1]

Programs

Season Short program Free skating
2009–10
[6]
2008–09
[7]
  • Ghost of Love
    (soundtrack)
2007–08
[8]
  • Tristan & Iseult
    by Maxime Rodriguez
2005–07
[9][5]
  • Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
    by Sergei Rachmaninov
2004–05
[4]
2003–04
[2][10]
  • Tango Fantasy
2002–03
[11]
  • Carmina Burana
    by Carl Orff
  • Two Guitars
2001–02
[12]
  • Two Guitars
2000–01
[3]

Results

GP: Grand Prix; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International[13]
Event 97–98 98–99 99–00 00–01 01–02 02–03 03–04 04–05 05–06 06–07 07–08 08–09 09–10
Olympics 29th 27th
Worlds 30th 28th 24th 20th 19th Q 22nd 22nd 17th 21st
Europeans 27th 19th 18th 14th 27th 17th 9th 11th 21st 18th
GP Bompard 9th 10th 9th
GP Cup of Russia 11th 12th
Bofrost Cup 5th
Finlandia Trophy 5th 8th
Golden Spin 9th 7th 15th 12th 6th 1st 1st 1st 5th
Merano Cup 13th
Nebelhorn Trophy 6th 13th 13th 10th 18th
Nepela Memorial 3rd 5th 1st 3rd 11th 12th
Schäfer Memorial 6th 2nd 5th 12th
Slovenia Trophy 2nd 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st
Triglav Trophy 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 2nd
Universiade 6th
International: Junior[13]
Junior Worlds 23rd 17th 23rd 13th 6th
JGP Final 8th
JGP Canada 8th
JGP Czech Rep. 5th
JGP Bulgaria 4th
JGP France 10th
JGP Germany 23rd 13th
JGP Hungary 13th
JGP Norway 4th
JGP Slovenia 5th
JGP Ukraine 4th
Triglav Trophy 10th J 2nd J 2nd J 1st J 2nd J
Slovenia Trophy 1st J.
National[13]
Slovenian Champ. 1st J 2nd 2nd 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st
J: Junior level; Q: Qualifying round

References

  1. 1 2 3 Kempf, Susanne (2005). "Gregor Urbas interview". Absolute Skating. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
  2. 1 2 Mittan, Barry (30 January 2004). "Slovenia’s Urbas Battles for Recognition". Golden Skate.
  3. 1 2 "Gregor URBAS: 2000/2001". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 18 April 2001.
  4. 1 2 "Gregor URBAS: 2004/2005". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 6 February 2005.
  5. 1 2 "Gregor URBAS: 2005/2006". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 15 June 2006.
  6. ↑ "Gregor URBAS: 2009/2010". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 7 May 2010.
  7. ↑ "Gregor URBAS: 2008/2009". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 5 June 2009.
  8. ↑ "Gregor URBAS: 2007/2008". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 7 June 2008.
  9. ↑ "Gregor URBAS: 2006/2007". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 29 April 2007.
  10. ↑ "Gregor URBAS: 2003/2004". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 4 June 2004.
  11. ↑ "Gregor URBAS: 2002/2003". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 15 April 2003.
  12. ↑ "Gregor URBAS: 2001/2002". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 3 February 2002.
  13. 1 2 3 "Competition Results: Gregor URBAS". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.
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