Stéphane Walker

Stéphane Walker

Walker in 2011
Personal information
Country represented Switzerland
Born (1990-12-25) 25 December 1990
Sion, Switzerland
Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Coach Franca Bianconi, Rosanna Murante
Former coach Myriam Loriol-Oberwiler, Brigitte Balman, Patricia Montanari, Heinz Wirz
Choreographer Sandra Schaer, Kinsun Chan, Sandra Garde
Former choreographer Jean-Francois Ballester, Emanuel Accard, Stéphane Walker, Erland Moeckli
Skating club CP Sion
Former skating club CP Neuchâtel
Training locations Sesto San Giovanni, Italy
Former training locations Neuchâtel, Sion, and Bern
Began skating 1994
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 179.52
2014 Europeans
Short program 64.40
2014 Worlds
Free skate 118.98
2014 Europeans

Stéphane Walker (born 25 December 1990) is a Swiss figure skater who competes in men's singles. He is a three-time Swiss national champion (2013–14, 2016) and has qualified for the free skate at five ISU Championships.

Career

Walker's ISU Junior Grand Prix debut came in September 2007; he placed 20th at the Tallinn Cup in Estonia. In the 2007–08 season, he was coached by Heinz Wirz in Sion and Bern, Switzerland.[1]

By the 2009–10 season, Walker was training under Myriam Loriol-Oberwiler in Neuchâtel.[2] He was sent to the 2010 World Junior Championships in The Hague but was eliminated after placing 30th in the short program.

In January 2011, Walker appeared at his first senior ISU Championship, the European Championships in Bern, and qualified for the final segment. He placed 10th in the preliminary round, 24th in the short program, 24th in the free skate, and 24th overall. At the 2013 Europeans in Zagreb, Croatia, he ranked 24th in the short, 17th in the free, and 20th overall.

In September 2013, Walker competed at the Nebelhorn Trophy, the last qualifying opportunity for the 2014 Winter Olympics, but his placement, 15th, was insufficient to earn a spot in Sochi, Russia. Later in the season he reached the free skate at two ISU Championships – he finished 17th at the 2014 Europeans in January in Budapest, Hungary, and 23rd at the 2014 Worlds in March in Saitama, Japan.

Walker had surgery on his right foot in June 2014[3] and spent ten weeks in a cast.[4] He resumed training in mid-November 2014.[4] He competed at the 2015 Europeans in Stockholm and 2015 Worlds in Shanghai but missed the cut for the free skate at both events.

By December 2015, Walker was training under Franca Bianconi and Rosanna Murante in Sesto San Giovanni, Italy.[5][6] At the 2015 Europeans in Bratislava, he placed 22nd in the short, 18th in the free, and 19th overall.

Programs

Season Short program Free skating
2015–2016
[5]
2014–2015
[3]
  • Piano Concerto No. 21, Andante
    by Wolfgang A. Mozart
2013–2014
[7]
  • Strobe's Nanafushi
    by Kodo
2012–2013
[8]
  • Melodia del Rio
    by Ruben Gonzalez
  • La Lluvia
    by Ruben Gonzalez
  • Atonement
    by Dario Marianelli
  • Primavera
    by Ludocivo Einaudi
2009–2011
[2][9]
2007–2008
[1]

Results

CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International[10]
Event 06–07 07–08 08–09 09–10 10–11 11–12 12–13 13–14 14–15 15–16
Worlds 23rd 30th
Europeans 24th 20th 17th 26th 19th
CS Ice Challenge 8th
CS Warsaw Cup 9th
Bavarian Open 10th
Challenge Cup 9th 11th 9th 5th
Crystal Skate 5th 4th
Cup of Nice 8th 14th 12th
Dragon Trophy 4th
Gardena 3rd 3rd
Hamar Trophy 1st
Ice Challenge 9th 8th
Nebelhorn 15th
Nepela Trophy 8th
NRW Trophy 11th
Slovenia Open 5th
Sportland Trophy 3rd
Triglav Trophy 7th 5th
Warsaw Cup 1st
Universiade 15th 14th 13th
International: Junior[10]
Junior Worlds 30th
JGP Czech Rep. 7th
JGP Estonia 20th
JGP USA 12th
Challenge Cup 4th J.
Gardena 4th J.
National[10]
Swiss Champ. 5th 4th 5th 5th 3rd 2nd 1st 1st 1st
J. = Junior level

References

  1. 1 2 "Stephane WALKER: 2007/2008". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 11 December 2007.
  2. 1 2 "Stephane WALKER: 2009/2010". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 8 May 2010.
  3. 1 2 "Stephane WALKER: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 23 May 2015.
  4. 1 2 "PATINAGE ARTISTIQUE Le tenant du titre Stéphane Walker, du CP Neuchâtel, doit renoncer sur blessure" [Title-holder Stéphane Walker forced to withdrew due to injury] (PDF) (in French). L'Express (Neuchâtel) - L'Impartial. 11 December 2014. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 March 2016.
  5. 1 2 "Stephane WALKER: 2015/2016". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.
  6. ↑ "Les champions suisses élites 2016 de patinage artistique sont connus" [2016 Swiss figure skating champions have been crowned] (in French). Swiss Ice Skating. 13 December 2015. Archived from the original on 11 March 2016.
  7. ↑ "Stephane WALKER: 2013/2014". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 22 June 2014.
  8. ↑ "Stephane WALKER: 2012/2013". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 30 August 2013.
  9. ↑ "Stephane WALKER: 2010/2011". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 30 January 2011.
  10. 1 2 3 "Competition Results: Stephane WALKER". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 15 May 2014.

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