Paul Fentz
Paul Fentz | |
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![]() Fentz in 2018 | |
Personal information | |
Country represented | Germany |
Born | Berlin, Germany | 8 September 1992
Home town | Berlin |
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Coach | Romy Oesterreich |
Former coach | Brigitte Zeller |
Choreographer | Paul Boll, Mark Pillay |
Former choreographer | Hendryk Schamberger |
Skating club | Sport Club Berlin |
Began skating | 1996 |
ISU personal best scores | |
Combined total | 230.01 2020 European Championships |
Short program | 81.86 2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy |
Free skate | 149.60 2020 European Championships |
Paul Fentz (born 8 September 1992) is a German figure skater. He has won four senior international medals and is a four-time German national champion (2018–20, 2022). He has competed in the final segment at eight ISU Championships.
Career[]
Fentz began appearing on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series in the 2008–09 season. His senior international debut came at the 2011 Triglav Trophy.
In the 2011–12 season, he won the silver medal at the 2012 German Championships and was included in Germany's team to the 2012 European Championships in Sheffield, England. After advancing past the preliminary round, he placed 23rd in the short program, 15th in the free skate, and 17th overall.
Fentz won his first senior international medal in February 2013, obtaining bronze at the Bavarian Open and then silver at the Hellmut Seibt Memorial.
Ranked 16th in the short and 17th in the free, Fentz finished 16th at the 2016 European Championships in Bratislava, Slovakia. He placed 12th in the short, 8th in the free, and 10th overall at the 2017 European Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic. In March, he finished 20th at the 2017 World Championships in Helsinki, Finland. Due to his result, Germany qualified for a spot in the men's event at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
Programs[]
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Season | Short program | Free skating |
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2021–2022 [1] |
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2020–2021 [2] |
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2019–2020 [3] |
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2018–2019 [4] |
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2017–2018 [5] |
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2016–2017 [7] |
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2015–2016 [8] |
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2014–2015 [9] |
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2011–2012 [10] |
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2010–2011 [11] |
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2009–2010 [12] |
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Competitive highlights[]
GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
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Event | 06–07 | 07–08 | 08–09 | 09–10 | 10–11 | 11–12 | 12–13 | 13–14 | 14–15 | 15–16 | 16–17 | 17–18 | 18–19 | 19–20 | 20–21 | 21–22 |
Olympics | 22nd | |||||||||||||||
Worlds | 20th | 15th | 28th | C | 26th | |||||||||||
Europeans | 17th | 16th | 10th | 16th | 15th | 8th | 16th | |||||||||
GP Cup of China | C | |||||||||||||||
GP Italy | WD | |||||||||||||||
GP Rostelecom | 6th | |||||||||||||||
GP Skate Canada | 10th | 11th | ||||||||||||||
CS Finlandia | 8th | 7th | WD | |||||||||||||
CS Golden Spin | 9th | 8th | 14th | |||||||||||||
CS Nebelhorn | 16th | 12th | 8th | WD | 6th | 13th | ||||||||||
CS Tallinn Trophy | 10th | |||||||||||||||
CS Warsaw Cup | 4th | 4th | 4th | 7th | 7th | 12th | WD | 12th | ||||||||
Bavarian Open | 3rd | 4th | ||||||||||||||
Challenge Cup | 9th | 8th | WD | |||||||||||||
Cup of Nice | 10th | 14th | 9th | |||||||||||||
Cup of Tyrol | 5th | |||||||||||||||
Golden Bear | 2nd | |||||||||||||||
NRW Trophy | 7th | 8th | 6th | 4th | 2nd | 2nd | ||||||||||
Coupe Printemps | 4th | |||||||||||||||
Hellmut Seibt | 2nd | |||||||||||||||
Toruń Cup | 4th | 3rd | ||||||||||||||
Triglav Trophy | 7th | |||||||||||||||
International: Junior[13] | ||||||||||||||||
JGP Belarus | 11th | |||||||||||||||
JGP Germany | 18th | |||||||||||||||
JGP Hungary | 12th | |||||||||||||||
JGP Romania | 7th | |||||||||||||||
JGP U.K. | 19th | |||||||||||||||
Challenge Cup | 6th | |||||||||||||||
Merano Cup | 1st | |||||||||||||||
NRW Trophy | 12th | 1st | ||||||||||||||
Warsaw Cup | 4th N | |||||||||||||||
National[13] | ||||||||||||||||
German Champ. | 2nd Y | 6th J | 1st J | 8th | 5th | 2nd | 3rd | 3rd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | WD | 1st |
Team events | ||||||||||||||||
Olympics | 7th T 9th P |
TBD | ||||||||||||||
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew; C = Event cancelled Levels: N = Novice; Y = Youth; J = Junior |
References[]
- ^ "Paul FENTZ: 2021/2022". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 20 September 2021.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
- ^ "Paul FENTZ: 2020/2021". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 5 October 2020.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
- ^ "Paul FENTZ: 2019/2020". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 27 October 2019.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
- ^ "Paul FENTZ: 2018/2019". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 8 February 2019.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
- ^ "Paul FENTZ: 2017/2018". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 25 October 2017.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
- ^ Bartleet, Larry (10 February 2018). "German figure skater uses jazz cover of 'Wonderwall' at Winter Olympics". NME. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
- ^ "Paul FENTZ: 2016/2017". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 30 May 2017.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
- ^ "Paul FENTZ: 2015/2016". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 27 May 2016.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
- ^ "Paul FENTZ: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 23 May 2015.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
- ^ "Paul FENTZ: 2011/2012". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 14 October 2012.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
- ^ "Paul FENTZ: 2010/2011". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 12 October 2010.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
- ^ "Paul FENTZ: 2009/2010". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 26 September 2010.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
- ^ a b c "Competition Results: Paul FENTZ". International Skating Union.
- 2009 German Junior Men's Figure Skating Championships
- 2007 German Youth Men's Figure Skating Championships
External links[]
Media related to Paul Fentz at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website (in German)
- Paul Fentz at the International Skating Union
- Paul Fentz at Tracings.net
- Paul Fentz at the International Olympic Committee
- Paul Fentz at the Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund (in German)
- German male single skaters
- 1992 births
- Living people
- Figure skaters from Berlin
- Figure skaters at the 2018 Winter Olympics
- Olympic figure skaters of Germany