Severin KIEFER

11 Oct 1990
31
Male
KUCHL
 
Austria
KUCHL
 
Austria

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
FSK Figure Skating Pair Skating 18

Schedule

Start Time Location Event Status
Capital Indoor Stadium
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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Historical Results

Olympic Games
RankEventYearLocation
Pair Skating2018PyeongChang, KOR
Pair Skating2014Sochi, RUS
World Championships
RankEventYearLocation
10Pair Skating2019Saitama, JPN
11Pair Skating2021Stockholm, SWE
14Pair Skating2018Milan, ITA
21Pair Skating2011Moscow, RUS
22Pair Skating2014Saitama, JPN
FNRPair Skating2017Helsinki, FIN
FNRPair Skating2016Boston, MA, USA
FNRPair Skating2015Shanghai, CHN
European Championships
RankEventYearLocation
6Pair Skating2020Graz, AUT
7Pair Skating2018Moscow, RUS
8Pair Skating2015Stockholm, SWE
9Pair Skating2017Ostrava, CZE
9Pair Skating2016Bratislava, SVK
12Pair Skating2014Budapest, HUN
13Pair Skating2013Zagreb, CRO
15Pair Skating2012Sheffield, GBR
15Pair Skating2011Bern, SUI
WDRPair Skating2019Minsk, BLR
World Junior Championships
RankEventYearLocation
15Pair Skating2012Minsk, BLR
16Pair Skating2011Gangneung, KOR
20Pair Skating2010The Hague, NED
27Men Single Skating2008Sofia, BUL
FNRMen Single Skating2008Sofia, BUL
Grand Prix
RankEventYearLocation
4Pair Skating2019/20Moscow, RUS
4Pair Skating2018/19Moscow, RUS
4Pair Skating2018/19Helsinki, FIN
5Pair Skating2019/20Grenoble, FRA
8Pair Skating2021/22Sochi, RUS
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Cooking, reading, football, music, playing with his dog Kenny. (isuresults.com)

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Sport soldier at Austrian Armed Forces, Student

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Studies political science at the University of Hagen, Germany.

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German, English

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Eisunion Salzburg

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Julia Kiefer (AUT) sister, Knut Schubert (GER)

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Sister Julia Kiefer (Figure skating): Competed at the junior level and is now a figure skating coach.

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2013 Nebelhorn Trophy (Pair skating - 12th), with Ziegler
2010 Ice Challenge (Pair skating - 8th), with Martini
2008 Triglav Trophy (Single skating - 3rd)

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January 2022: Broke the navicular bone in his left hand in a fall in training at the 2022 European Championship. Had to withdraw from the competition and underwent surgery. Resumed practice at end of January. (kurier.at, 22 Jan 2022)

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John Zimmerman (USA), Silvia Fontana (ITA), Mark Pillay (CAN)

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1994

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Followed his older sister Julia into the sport.

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To make the top-10 at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games and perform a clean free skating programme. (Athlete, 14 Jun 2021)

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Trains with his partner in Austria and in Germany (Berlin). “The fact that you can train with other couples in Berlin, gives you a very special training dynamic that we simply don’t have here [Austria]." (world-today-news.com, 22 Jan 2020)

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Their career in general. "I am proud of our long and, in our opinion, successful career. We managed to continue to develop over the years and we did not lose our joy for the sport." (Athlete, 14 Jun 2021)

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His older sisterJulia.

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Coaches Knut Schubert (GER) and the late Jean-Francois Ballester (FRA).

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"For us, the focus is to enjoy the sport. We try to share this with others and pass it on. That is what motivates us." (Athlete, 14 Jun 2021)

General Interest

FROM SINGLES TO PAIRS
He is a multiple national medallist in single skating and started skating pairs in 2009 with Stina Martini. He continued to compete in singles parallel to pairs until 2014. He felt that he was not making enough progress with Martini, and in March 2013 asked Ziegler for a tryout. "I thought it would be more difficult, but Miriam learned incredibly fast." (figureskating-online.com, Oct 2013)

FORMER PARTNER
Stina Martini (Austrian pairs champions 2011-13, competed at the European and World Championships).

COACH
Coach Knut Schubert (GER) is the 1983 and 1984 European bronze medallist in pair skating and finished fifth at the Sarajevo 1984 Olympic Winter Games with partner Birgit Lorenz.

DEATH OF THEIR COACH
The sudden death of their coach Jean-Francois Ballester (FRA) in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland in December 2018 came as a shock to him and they couldn't train. The couple withdrew from the 2019 European Championships after the short programme citing emotional stress.“The pressure and stress were all just too much." (Pirouette Magazine, Feb 2019; europeonice.com, 30 Oct 2019)

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