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| Born | (1977-11-30)30 November 1977 (age 47) Belfort, France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Partner | Isabelle Delobel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skating club | CSG Lyon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Began skating | 1984 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | February 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Olivier Schoenfelder (born 30 November 1977) is a French retiredice dancer and coach. With partnerIsabelle Delobel, he is the2008 World champion, the2007 European and the 2008Grand Prix Final champion.
Schoenfelder began skating after seeingIsabelle andPaul Duchesnay at an ice show and switched to ice dancing after only six months in singles.[1]
Delobel and Schoenfelder were paired together in 1990 by coachLydie Bontemps on the suggestion ofIrina Moiseeva andAndrei Minenkov.[2][1][3] They won a silver medal at1996 Junior Worlds before moving up to the senior ranks prior to the 1996–97 season. They won their first Grand Prix medal at the1999 Skate Canada. Early in their career, they were coached byMuriel Boucher-Zazoui inLyon, France.Tatiana Tarasova andNikolai Morozov were their choreographers from 1998 to 2002 and their coaches from 2000 to 2002 inNewington, Connecticut.[1][4] While practising a lift at French Nationals in December 2001, Delobel tore an abdominal muscle, keeping her off the ice for six weeks and forcing the team to miss the European Championships.[1] Feeling more comfortable in France, Delobel and Schoenfelder decided to return to Lyon and Boucher-Zazoui after the 2001–2002 season.[1]
They won their first national championship in the 2002–03 season. Delobel and Schoenfelder worked with choreographerPasquale Camerlengo for the 2005–06 season.[5]
Delobel and Schoenfelder often finished just off the podium at major events,[6] including a 4th place at the2006 Olympics, less than two points behind the bronze medalists.[7] The following season, they won their onlyEuropean title but were unable to win a medal atWorlds.
Delobel and Schoenfelder did not repeat as European champions thefollowing year, finishing second. They then went on to win the2008 World Championships. They were first in both the compulsory and original dance portions of the event, and second in the free dance.[8] They considered retiring but decided to continue competing.[9]
They began the 2008–09 season with wins in all three Grand Prix appearances –Skate America,Trophée Eric Bompard, and theGrand Prix Final. During their gala exhibition performance at the Grand Prix Final in December 2009, Delobel suffered a shoulder injury and underwent surgery on 5 January 2009, causing them to miss the remainder of the season.[10][3]
Delobel became pregnant during the injury layoff.[11] She and Schoenfelder trained cautiously, withMarie-France Dubreuil substituting for Delobel in lifts.[12] Dubreuil, along withPatrice Lauzon, also choreographed their final free dance.[12] Occasional falls caused Delobel to leave the ice in late July.[11]
Delobel's son was born in October and she returned to the ice toward the end of the month, beginning three-a-day sessions and intense physical training in November.[11] They also skippedFrench Nationals and theEuropean Championships in order to spend more time on training.[11] The two returned in time for the Vancouver Olympics, competing just four-and-a-half months after she had given birth and announcing it would be their final competition.[13] They finished sixth and retired from competitive skating.[14] They continue to skate together in shows.[15]
Schoenfelder now coaches in Lyon.[16] Among others, he coachesLucie Myslivečková /Neil Brown andLouise Walden /Owen Edwards.
Schoenfelder studied ballet before taking up skating, as his mother is a ballet instructor.[1] Schoenfelder studied journalism and has done some television commentating.[15]
In May 2005, he married Isabelle Pécheur. They have a son together, Gabriel, born on 26 October 2006.[3][17]
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| International | ||||||||||||||||
| Event | 1994–95 | 1995–96 | 1996–97 | 1997–98 | 1998–99 | 1999–00 | 2000–01 | 2001–02 | 2002–03 | 2003–04 | 2004–05 | 2005–06 | 2006–07 | 2007–08 | 2008–09 | 2009–10 |
| Olympics | 16th | 4th | 6th | |||||||||||||
| Worlds | 18th | 14th | 11th | 13th | 12th | 9th | 6th | 4th | 5th | 4th | 1st | |||||
| Europeans | 15th | 12th | 9th | 10th | 7th | 4th | 3rd | 4th | 1st | 2nd | ||||||
| Grand Prix Final | 5th | 6th | 6th | 4th | 3rd | 1st | ||||||||||
| GPCup of China | 3rd | |||||||||||||||
| GPCup of Russia | 3rd | |||||||||||||||
| GPLalique/Bompard | 6th | 7th | 7th | 7th | 5th | 5th | 2nd | 3rd | 3rd | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | |||
| GPNHK Trophy | 7th | 4th | 3rd | 1st | ||||||||||||
| GPSkate America | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | |||||||||||||
| GPSkate Canada | 7th | 3rd | 5th | 4th | ||||||||||||
| GPSparkassen | 5th | |||||||||||||||
| Bofrost Cup | 2nd | |||||||||||||||
| Nebelhorn | 3rd | |||||||||||||||
| Ondrej Nepela | 1st | |||||||||||||||
| Lysianne Lauret | 4th | |||||||||||||||
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| Junior Worlds | 4th | 2nd | ||||||||||||||
| Odesa Trophy | 2nd | |||||||||||||||
| Autumn Trophy | 1st | 4th | ||||||||||||||
| Ukraine Trophy | 2nd | |||||||||||||||
| EYOF | 1st | |||||||||||||||
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| French Champ. | 3rd J. | 1st J. | 4th | 4th | 3rd | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | |||
| Master's | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | ||||||||||||
| GP = Grand Prix (Champions Series 1995–1997); J. = Junior level | ||||||||||||||||
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