Martin Bidař
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 Dušková and Bidař at the 2015–16 JGP Final | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country represented | Czech Republic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 February 1999 České Budějovice, Czech Republic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home town | České Budějovice, Czech Republic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Partner | Jelizaveta Žuková | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former partner | Hanna Abrazhevich Anna Dušková | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Dmitri Savin Petr Bidař Vladislav Zhovnirski | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former coach | Tomáš Verner Eva Horklová Bruno Marcotte Iveta Bidařová Markéta Procházková | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Choreographer | Dmitri Savin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former choreographer | Petr Bidař Maurizio Margaglio Rostislav Sinicyn Gabriela Žilková Hrázská | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skating club | BK České Budějovice | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Training locations | Prague Montreal, Canada Flims, Switzerland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former training locations | Brno České Budějovice | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Began skating | 2003 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ISU personal best scores | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Combined total | 159.73 2022 Europeans | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Short program | 60.88 2021 CS Warsaw Cup | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Free skate | 105.33 2022 Europeans | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Martin Bidař (born 24 February 1999) is a Czech pair skater, who currently competes with Jelizaveta Žuková. With former partner Anna Dušková, he is the 2016 World Junior champion, 2016 Youth Olympic silver medalist (individually and in the team event), and 2015 JGP Final silver medalist.
Personal life[]
Martin Bidař was born on 24 February 1999 in České Budějovice, Czech Republic.[1] He is the son of a figure skating coach, Iveta Bidařová, and the younger brother of a former pair skater, Petr Bidař.[2] His sisters were also figure skaters.[3]
Skating career[]
Early years[]
Martin Bidař started learning to skate in 2003.[1] Originally single skaters, he and Anna Dušková began skating together as a pair after their coach, Eva Horklová, suggested the idea.[3] Recalling their beginnings, Dušková stated, "It was quite embarrassing at first, because everybody was skating singles and we had to hold hands. We were so young and shy."[3] In the 2011–2012 season, they competed together on the novice national level.
2013–2014 season: Junior international debut[]
Dušková/Bidař's ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) debut came in the 2013–2014 season; they finished 8th in September 2013 in Košice, Slovakia, and 6th the next month in Ostrava, Czech Republic. In March 2014, the pair placed 10th at the World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, having ranked 10th in both segments.
2014–2015 season[]
In 2014–2015, Dušková/Bidař continued on the JGP series, finishing 10th in Estonia and 8th in Germany. They came in 8th at the 2015 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, after placing 9th in both segments.
2015–2016 season: Gold at World Junior Championships[]
Although based mainly in the Czech Republic,[4] Dušková/Bidař also spent some time training in Montreal and Sochi in the summer of 2015 and made another visit to Montreal during the competitive season.[3]
Competing in the 2015 JGP series, Dušková/Bidař won a silver medal in August in Linz, Austria, and finished 4th the following month in Riga, Latvia. The results qualified them for the 2015 JGP Final, held in December 2015 in Barcelona, Spain. Ranked third in the short program and second in the free skate, Dušková/Bidař edged out Russia's Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridonov by 0.33 for the silver medal behind Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot, who won gold by a margin of 9.53 points.[5] They became the first Czech pair to step on the podium at a JGP Final.
In February 2016, Dušková/Bidař competed in Hamar, Norway, at the Winter Youth Olympics, placing first in the short program, second in the free skate, and second overall with a total score 2.53 less than Borisova/Sopot. Their silver is the Czech Republic's first Youth Olympic medal in figure skating. In March, Dušková/Bidař won gold at the 2016 World Junior Championships in Debrecen, Hungary.[6] Ranked first in both segments, they outscored two Russian pairs – silver medalists Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev by 9.22 points and bronze medalists Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot by 12.82 points – to become the Czech Republic's first World Junior champions in figure skating. They are also the first pair skaters from outside China, Russia, or the United States to win the competition since 2001. On their future plans, Dušková stated that "there will be less and less singles competitions for me. We will concentrate on pairs."[7]
2016–2017 season: Senior debut[]
Ahead of the season, Dušková/Bidař spent three weeks training in Montreal before returning to the Czech Republic.[8] Opening their season on the JGP series, the pair won gold at their September event in Ostrava, ahead of Atakhanova/Spiridonov, and then silver the following month in Dresden, behind Mishina/Mirzoev. Later in October, making their senior international debut, they outscored Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer to win the International Cup of Nice. In December, they placed second to Mishina/Mirzoev at the JGP Final in Marseille.
They placed 7th at the 2017 European Championships in Ostrava, and 14th at the 2017 World Championships in Helsinki.
2017–2018 season: Parting ways with Anna Duškova[]
In September 2017, Dušková/Bidař competed at the Nebelhorn Trophy, the final qualifying opportunity for the 2018 Winter Olympics. The pair placed 9th and earned a spot for the Czech Republic in the pairs' event at the Olympics.
Dušková injured a knee ligament during a warm-up before training in late October and decided later to undergo an operation.[9][10] As a result, the pair withdrew from their two Grand Prix assignments – the 2017 Cup of China and 2017 Internationaux de France.[9]
Dušková/Bidař returned to competition at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. They qualified to the free skate by placing 15th in the short program and went on to finish 14th overall.[11] Ranked 13th in the short and 11th in the free, the pair finished 11th at the 2018 World Championships in Milan, Italy. On 27 April 2018, they announced that they had parted ways.[12][13][14]
2018–2019 Season: Partnership with Abrazhevich[]
On September 25, 2018 it was announced that Martin Bidař partnered up with Hanna Abrazhevich of Belarus. They finished eighteenth at the 2019 World Championships. On May 17, 2019 they announced the end of their partnership.
2019–2020 season: New partnership with Zhuk[]
On June 26, 2019, Bidař announced a new partnership with Russian pair skater Elizaveta Zhuk. In their first season together they competed exclusively domestically, winning the Czech national title.[15]
2020–2021 season[]
With the COVID-19 pandemic limiting international opportunities, Zhuk/Bidař made their debut internationally at the 2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, one of only four pairs on the preliminary entry list.[16] They were fifth in the short, fourth in the free, and fourth overall.[17] They subsequently competed at the 2021 World Championships, placing fifteenth and in the process qualifying a berth for a Czech pair at the 2022 Winter Olympics.[15][18]
2021–2022 season[]
In September, the Czech federation officially named Zhuk/Bidař to the Czech Olympic team.[19] They made their debut at the 2021 CS Finlandia Trophy, where they placed ninth. They later competed at a second Challenger event, finishing twelfth at the 2021 CS Warsaw Cup.[15]
Zhuk opted to restyle her name as Jelizaveta Žuková in advance of the Olympics. Žuková/Bidař made their European Championships debut in Tallinn, finishing in twelfth place.[15]
Programs[]
With Zhuk[]
| Season | Short program | Free skating |
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| 2021–2022 [20] |
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| 2020–2021 [21] |
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With Abrazhevich[]
| Season | Short program | Free skating |
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| 2018–2019 [22] |
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With Dušková[]
| Season | Short program | Free skating | Exhibition |
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| 2017–2018 [1] |
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| 2016–2017 [23] |
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| 2015–2016 [4] |
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| 2014–2015 [24] |
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| 2013–2014 [25] |
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| 2012–2013 |
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| 2011–2012 | unknown |
Competitive highlights[]
GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
With Zhuk[]
| International[15] | ||||
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| Event | 19–20 | 20–21 | 21–22 | |
| Olympics | TBD | |||
| Worlds | 15th | |||
| Europeans | 12th | |||
| CS Finlandia Trophy | 9th | |||
| CS Golden Spin | WD | |||
| CS Nebelhorn Trophy | 4th | |||
| CS Warsaw Cup | 12th | |||
| Autumn Talents Cup | 1st | |||
| Challenge Cup | 4th | |||
| National[15] | ||||
| Czech Champ. | 1st | 1st | WD | |
| Four Nationals | [a] | 1st | WD | |
| TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew | ||||
- ^ Zhuk had not yet been released from Russia to compete internationally, so Zhuk/Bidař competed in a separate, domestic-only (Czech Figure Skating Association hosted the 2020 edition) event. Their scores would have earned them silver if they had competed in the international segment.
With Abrazhevich[]
| International[26] | |
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| Event | 18–19 |
| Worlds | 18th |
| Bavarian Open | 5th |
| Ice Mall Cup | 4th |
With Dušková[]
| International[5] | |||||||
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| Event | 11–12 | 12–13 | 13–14 | 14–15 | 15–16 | 16–17 | 17–18 |
| Olympics | 14th | ||||||
| Worlds | 14th | 11th | |||||
| Europeans | 7th | ||||||
| GP Cup of China | WD | ||||||
| GP France | WD | ||||||
| CS Nebelhorn | 9th | ||||||
| Cup of Nice | 1st | ||||||
| International: Junior[5] | |||||||
| Junior Worlds | 10th | 8th | 1st | ||||
| Youth Olympics | 2nd | ||||||
| JGP Final | 2nd | 2nd | |||||
| JGP Austria | 2nd | ||||||
| JGP Czech Rep. | 6th | 1st | |||||
| JGP Estonia | 10th | ||||||
| JGP Germany | 8th | 2nd | |||||
| JGP Latvia | 4th | ||||||
| JGP Slovakia | 8th | ||||||
| Ice Challenge | 1st N | 1st J | 1st J | ||||
| NRW Trophy | 1st J | 2nd J | |||||
| National[5] | |||||||
| Czech Champ. | 1st N | 1st N | 1st J | 1st J | |||
| Team events | |||||||
| Youth Olympics | 2nd T 2nd P |
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| WD = Withdrew Levels: N = Advanced novice; J = Junior T = Team result; P = Personal result. Medals awarded for team result only. | |||||||
Single skating[]
| International[27] | ||||
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| Event | 08–09 | 12–13 | 13–14 | 15–16 |
| Ice Challenge | 4th N | |||
| New Year's Cup | 2nd N | |||
| Seibt Memorial | 2nd N | |||
| Tirnavia Ice Cup | 2nd N | |||
| Warsaw Cup | 6th N | |||
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| Czech Champ. | 4th | |||
| N = Advanced novice level | ||||
Detailed results[]
With Zhuk[]
| 2021–22 season | |||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | |
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| January 10–16, 2022 | 2022 European Championships | 15 54.40 |
10 105.33 |
12 159.73 | |
| November 17–20, 2021 | 2021 CS Warsaw Cup | 8 60.88 |
12 96.25 |
12 157.13 | |
| October 27–30, 2021 | 2021 Autumn Talents Cup | 1 46.96 |
1 91.44 |
1 138.40 | |
| October 7–10, 2021 | 2021 CS Finlandia Trophy | 9 48.36 |
10 93.90 |
9 142.26 | |
| 2020–21 season | |||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | |
| March 22–28, 2021 | 2021 World Championships | 16 54.30 |
15 102.99 |
15 157.29 | |
| February 26–28, 2021 | 2021 Challenge Cup | 5 54.13 |
4 108.98 |
4 163.11 | |
| December 10–12, 2020 | 2021 Four Nationals Championships | 1 55.83 |
1 87.67 |
1 143.50 | |
| September 23–26, 2020 | 2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy | 5 51.20 |
4 91.83 |
4 143.03 | |
| 2019–20 season | |||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | |
| December 13–14, 2019 | 2020 Four Nationals Championships Domestic event |
1 49.12 |
1 94.47 |
1 143.59 | |
References[]
- ^ a b c "Anna DUSKOVA / Martin Bidař: 2017/2018". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 28 April 2018.
- ^ Kalinics, Michael (19 December 2012). "Jihočech na ledě Martin Bidař si vyjel v Polsku titul mistra republiky". Deník (in Czech).
- ^ a b c d Flade, Tatjana (8 May 2016). "Duskova and Bidař look ahead after momentous season". Golden Skate.
- ^ a b "Anna DUSKOVA / Martin Bidař: 2015/2016". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 27 May 2016.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
- ^ a b c d "Competition Results: Anna DUSKOVA / Martin Bidař". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 28 April 2018.
- ^ Flade, Tatjana (17 March 2016). "Duskova and Bidař win historic gold for Czech Republic". Golden Skate.
- ^ Bőd, Titanilla (14 April 2016). "Anna Dušková and Martin Bidař - first in the most important moment". Absolute Skating.
- ^ Flade, Tatjana (16 January 2017). "Featured interview: Anna Duskova & Martin Bidař (CZE)". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 16 January 2017.
- ^ a b "Grand Prix 2017". Czech Figure Skating Association (in Czech). 1 November 2017. Archived from the original on 1 November 2017.
- ^ "Nejlepší česká sportovní dvojice má problém, Dušková musí na operaci" [The Czech Republic's best pair has a problem, Dušková needs an operation]. Česká televize (in Czech). 1 November 2017. Archived from the original on 1 November 2017.
- ^ "Athlete Profile - Martin Bidař". pyeongchang2018.com. Archived from the original on 28 April 2018.
- ^ Johnstone, Chris (27 April 2018). "Czech ice skating duo Dusková and Bidař announce split". radio.cz.
- ^ "Sportovní dvojice Dušková a Bidař se rozdělila. České krasobruslení by mohlo získat dva nové páry" [Pair skaters Dušková and Bidař have parted ways. Czech figure skating may have two new pairs]. czechskating.org (in Czech). 27 April 2018. Archived from the original on 28 April 2018.
- ^ Macek, Tomáš (28 April 2018). "Bidař o rozchodu s Duškovou: Dva týdny existovala naděje, že to vyřešíme" (in Czech). IDNES.
- ^ a b c d e f "Competition Results: Elizaveta ZHUK / Martin BIDAR". International Skating Union.
- ^ "2020 NEBELHORN TROPHY". International Figure Skating. September 19, 2020.
- ^ "ISU CS Nebelhorn Trophy 2020 Results". International Skating Union.
- ^ "Communication No. 2388". International Skating Union. April 1, 2021.
- ^ Czech Figure Skating (27 September 2021). "ak ještě jednou i s grafikou!