Julia Sauter
Julia Sauter at the2024 World Championships
Full name	Julia Franziska Sauter
Born	(1997-06-18)18 June 1997 (age 27) Weingarten, Germany
Hometown	Ravensburg, Germany
Height	1.67 m (5 ft5+1⁄2 in)
Figure skating career
Country	Romania (since 2012)  Germany (2010–12)
Discipline	Women's singles
Coach	Roxana Hartmann Christopher Boyadji
Skating club	ACS Corona Brașov
Began skating	2002
Medal record
Romanian Championships 2014 Brașov Singles 2015 Brașov Singles 2016 Miercurea Ciuc Singles 2017 Bucharest Singles 2019 Otopeni Singles 2022 Miercurea Ciuc Singles 2023 Otopeni Singles 2024 Otopeni Singles 2025 Otopeni Singles 2013 Brașov Singles

Julia Franziska Sauter (married name:Sauter-Czarnik; born 18 June 1997) is a German-Romanianfigure skater.^[1][2] Representing Romania, she has won twelve senior international medals as well as sevenRomanian national titles. She has reached the final segment at two World and three European Championships, with a top-ten result at two European Championships.

Sauter was born on June 18, 1997 inWeingarten, Württemberg, Germany. She is a dual citizen of Germany and Romania.^[3]

In 2019, while visiting theUnited States, she met and began datingAmerican ice hockey player, Robbie Czarnik. Afterwards, Czarnik moved toLandshut, Germany to be with Sauter. They married in September 2021.^[3][4]

In addition to figure skating, Sauter also worked as a kids-aid in a school, a part-time waitress, and as a figure skating coach at her training rink inRavensburg to pay for her figure skating due to a lack of funding from the Romanian Figure Skating Federation.^[4] In 2023, her club was able to provide her with funding, allowing her to quit her part-time jobs, although she continues to coach and choreograph at her rink.^[5]

Sauter has expressed interest in becoming a full-time figure skating coach and choreographer after she retires from competitive figure skating.

Her figure skating role models areKiira Korpi,Yuna Kim,Kaetlyn Osmond,Carolina Kostner, as well as her coach and choreographer,Roxana Hartmann.^[4]

Sauter began figure skating in 2002 at the age of four. Her childhood coaches were Diane Eisele and Silvia Jansson beforeMarius Negrea began coaching her in 2010 at the age of twelve.^[4]

Sauter represented Germany at junior international events in 2010 and 2011.

She made the decision to represent Romania in 2011 at the age of fourteen due to not being invited to enter the elite group of figure skaters in Germany because at the time, she was unable to perform specific elements that were required of her. As a result, Sauter had to sit out of competitions for a whole year as is required when figure skaters switch countries. In March 2013, she made her first international appearance for Romania.^[6][4] She competed at three consecutiveWorld Junior Championships, from 2014 to 2016, but never made the cut for the free skate.^[7]

Sauter began the season at the2018 Crystal Skate of Romania, winning the silver medal, fourteenth at the2018 CS Alpen Trophy, and fifth at the2018 Warsaw Cup.^[7]

At the2019 European Championships inMinsk,Belarus, Sauter qualified to the final segment of an ISU Championship for the first time in her career. She went on to finish fourteenth overall.^[7]

Making herWorld Championship debut at the2019 edition inSaitama,Japan, Sauter placed twenty-ninth in the short program and didn't advance to the free skate.^[7]

Sauter left longtime coach,Marius Negrea after deciding to move to fromRavensburg toLandshut, where her newlywed husband was living. She did not compete during the 2019–20 season, which she later cited was due to a lack of motivation, having achieved her dream of finishing in the top 30 at a World Championships the previous season as well as an ankle injury that kept her off the ice for six weeks. She also missed the 2020–21 season due to theCOVID-19 pandemic preventing her from getting any ice time to train.

In October 2020, Sauter decided to return to coach, Marius Negrea and worked virtually with him until August 2021 when the ice rink in Ravensburg re-opened.^[4] Prior to that, Sauter trained inAtlanta,Georgia from April to July, where her husband's parents live, and worked with Negrea virtually.^[4]

Making her return to competition at the2021 CS Lombardia Trophy, Sauter finished thirteenth. She went on to place twentieth at the2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, and third at the2021 Trophée Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur.^[7]

At the2022 Romanian Championships, Sauter won her sixth national title. She then finished fourth at both the 2021 Skate Celje and the2021 Santa Claus Cup.^[7]

Although assigned to compete at the2022 European Championships, Sauter had to withdraw from the event after testing positive forCOVID-19.^[4] She then went on to win bronze at both2022 Skate Helena and the2022 Dragon Trophy.^[7]

Competing at theWorld Championships for the second time in her career, inMontpellier,France, Sauter qualified for the free skate after placing nineteenth in the short program. She came eighteenth in the free skate, moving up to eighteenth place overall.^[7]

Sauter began the season by finishing eighth at the2022 Trophée Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur and winning silver at the2022 Crystal Skate of Romania. She was invited to her firstGrand Prix event, the2022 MK John Wilson Trophy, where she placed tenth. She then won silver medals at the2023 Bosphorus Cup and2023 EduSport Trophy. At theEduSport Trophy, Sauter landed her first ever triple lutz in competition at the age of twenty-five.^[4][7]

At the2023 European Championships inEspoo,Finland, Sauter achieved a top ten finish for Romania, which for the first time would allow two Romanian woman to enter the next year.^[8] She then went on to win a gold medal at the 2023 Bellu Memorial.^[7]

Sauter set up aGoFundMe page to pay for the travel expenses to go to the2023 World Championships inSaitama,Japan.^[9] At the World Championships, Sauter placed twenty-second in the short program and twentieth in the free skate, finishing twentieth overall.^[7]

In her first competition of the season, Sauter was sixth at the2023 CS Nepela Memorial. She appeared at three other minor internationals, including a second consecutive silver medal at theEduSport Trophy.^[7] Sauter was ill before the2024 European Championships and was only able to resume training two weeks beforehand.^[8] She came ninth overall.^[10] This was the best result ever for a Romanian women's representative at the European Championships. Sauter said of her result that "It feels pretty good to have made the Top 10 again." and that she was pleased to be competing at the Championships with another Romanian woman.^[8]

At the2024 World Championships, Sauter came in twenty-seventh place with mistakes on two of her jumping passes in the short program, and she did not make the free skate.^[11]

Sauter began to struggle withpanic attacks during the summer.^[12] She began the season by competing on the2024–25 ISU Challenger Series, finishing sixth at the2024 CS Budapest Trophy and seventeenth at the2024 CS Warsaw Cup. Between the two events, Sauter won the2024 Crystal Skate of Romania.^[7]

In December, Sauter decided to part ways with longtime coach,Marius Negrea, and makeRoxana Hartmann, who had previously mainly worked as her choreographer, her new head coach.^[9] In addition, Sauter also began working withChristopher Boyadji.^[13] The following month, she competed at the2025 European Championships inTallinn, Estonia, where she placed seventh. This was the best-ever placement for a Romanian woman at the European Championships.^[12]

Weeks before the2025 World Championships, Sauter set up aGoFundMe page to help pay for her and her coaches' travel expenses.^[9]

GP:Grand Prix; CS:Challenger Series; JGP:Junior Grand Prix

Results in the2024–25 season ^[23]

Date	Event	SP		FS		Total
		P	Score	P	Score	P	Score
Oct 11–13, 2024	2024 CS Budapest Trophy	6	62.98	11	94.77	6	157.75
Oct 23–27, 2024	2024 Crystal Skate of Romania	1	52.92	2	88.49	1	141.41
Oct 23–27, 2024	2024 Romanian Championships[a]	1	—	1	—	1	—
Nov 20–24, 2024	2024 CS Warsaw Cup	17	46.03	17	89.12	17	133.81
Jan 7–12, 2025	2025 Sofia Trophy	2	63.46	4	112.59	3	176.05
Jan 28 – Feb 2, 2025	2025 European Championships	8	61.96	10	110.68	7	172.64

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