Stéphane Walker

Stéphane Walker
Walker in 2011
Personal information
Country represented Switzerland
Born (1990-12-25) 25 December 1990
Sion, Switzerland
Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Coach Franca Bianconi, Rosanna Murante
Former coach Myriam Loriol-Oberwiler, Brigitte Balman, Patricia Montanari, Heinz Wirz
Choreographer Sandra Schaer, Kinsun Chan, Sandra Garde
Former choreographer Jean-Francois Ballester, Emanuel Accard, Stéphane Walker, Erland Moeckli
Skating club CP Sion
Former skating club CP Neuchâtel
Training locations Sesto San Giovanni, Italy
Former training locations Neuchâtel, Sion, and Bern
Began skating 1994
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 209.04
2016 CS Warsaw Cup
Short program 70.58
2016 CS Warsaw Cup
Free skate 138.55
2016 CS Ondrej Nepela Memorial

Stéphane Walker (born 25 December 1990) is a Swiss figure skater who competes in men's singles. He is a four-time Swiss national champion (2013–14, 2016–17) and has qualified for the free skate at five ISU Championships.

Career

Walker's ISU Junior Grand Prix debut came in September 2007; he placed 20th at the Tallinn Cup in Estonia. In the 2007–08 season, he was coached by Heinz Wirz in Sion and Bern, Switzerland.[1]

By the 2009–10 season, Walker was training under Myriam Loriol-Oberwiler in Neuchâtel.[2] He was sent to the 2010 World Junior Championships in The Hague but was eliminated after placing 30th in the short program.

In January 2011, Walker appeared at his first senior ISU Championship, the European Championships in Bern, and qualified for the final segment. He placed 10th in the preliminary round, 24th in the short program, 24th in the free skate, and 24th overall. At the 2013 Europeans in Zagreb, Croatia, he ranked 24th in the short, 17th in the free, and 20th overall.

In September 2013, Walker competed at the Nebelhorn Trophy, the last qualifying opportunity for the 2014 Winter Olympics, but his placement, 15th, was insufficient to earn a spot in Sochi, Russia. Later in the season he reached the free skate at two ISU Championships – he finished 17th at the 2014 Europeans in January in Budapest, Hungary, and 23rd at the 2014 Worlds in March in Saitama, Japan.

Walker had surgery on his right foot in June 2014[3] and spent ten weeks in a cast.[4] He resumed training in mid-November 2014.[4] He competed at the 2015 Europeans in Stockholm and 2015 Worlds in Shanghai but missed the cut for the free skate at both events.

By December 2015, Walker was training under Franca Bianconi and Rosanna Murante in Sesto San Giovanni, Italy.[5][6] At the 2015 Europeans in Bratislava, he placed 22nd in the short, 18th in the free, and 19th overall.

Programs

Walker at the 2017 World Championships
Season Short program Free skating
2016–2017
[7]
2015–2016
[5]
2014–2015
[3]
  • Piano Concerto No. 21, Andante
    by Wolfgang A. Mozart
2013–2014
[8]
  • Strobe's Nanafushi
    by Kodo
2012–2013
[9]
  • Melodia del Rio
    by Ruben Gonzalez
  • La Lluvia
    by Ruben Gonzalez
  • Atonement
    by Dario Marianelli
  • Primavera
    by Ludocivo Einaudi
2009–2011
[2][10]
2007–2008
[1]

Results

CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International[11]
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
Worlds23rd30th28th27th
Europeans24th20th17th26th19th17th18th
CS Ice Challenge8th
CS Lombardia4th9th
CS Nebelhorn9th
CS Nepela7th
CS Warsaw Cup9th3rd2nd
Bavarian Open10th
Challenge Cup9th11th9th5th
Crystal Skate5th4th
Cup of Nice8th14th12th
Cup of Tyrol4th6th
Dragon Trophy4th
Gardena3rd3rd
Golden Bear3rd
Hamar Trophy1st
Ice Challenge9th8th
Merano Cup1st
Nebelhorn Trophy15th
Nepela Trophy8th
NRW Trophy11th
Slovenia Open5th3rd
Sportland Trophy3rd
Triglav Trophy7th5th
Warsaw Cup1st
Universiade15th14th13th
International: Junior[11]
Junior Worlds30th
JGP Czech Rep.7th
JGP Estonia20th
JGP USA12th
Challenge Cup4th J
Gardena4th J
National[11]
Swiss Champ.5th4th5th5th3rd2nd1st1st1st1st
J = Junior level

References

  1. 1 2 "Stephane WALKER: 2007/2008". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 11 December 2007.
  2. 1 2 "Stephane WALKER: 2009/2010". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 8 May 2010.
  3. 1 2 "Stephane WALKER: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 23 May 2015.
  4. 1 2 "PATINAGE ARTISTIQUE Le tenant du titre Stéphane Walker, du CP Neuchâtel, doit renoncer sur blessure" [Title-holder Stéphane Walker forced to withdrew due to injury] (PDF) (in French). L'Express (Neuchâtel) - L'Impartial. 11 December 2014. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 March 2016.
  5. 1 2 "Stephane WALKER: 2015/2016". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 28 May 2016.
  6. ↑ "Les champions suisses élites 2016 de patinage artistique sont connus" [2016 Swiss figure skating champions have been crowned] (in French). Swiss Ice Skating. 13 December 2015. Archived from the original on 11 March 2016.
  7. ↑ "Stephane WALKER: 2016/2017". International Skating Union.
  8. ↑ "Stephane WALKER: 2013/2014". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 22 June 2014.
  9. ↑ "Stephane WALKER: 2012/2013". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 30 August 2013.
  10. ↑ "Stephane WALKER: 2010/2011". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 30 January 2011.
  11. 1 2 3 "Competition Results: Stephane WALKER". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 3 July 2016.

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