Stefanie Pesendorfer

Pesendorfer began learning to skate in 2007, at age four.[1] After impressing in a kindergarten course, she joined Union Eissportklub in Linz.[3] She competed in the advanced novice ranks from October 2015 through April 2017.[4]

Coached by Denise Jaschek and Markus Haider in Linz,[5] Pesendorfer made her international junior debut at the ISU Junior Grand Prix in Austria in August 2017. She finished 16th at JGP Austria and 12th at her second JGP assignment, in Zagreb, Croatia.

In December, she won the junior ladies' title at the 2018 Austrian Championships and was assigned to the 2018 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria. Competing in March at Junior Worlds, Pesendorfer qualified for the free skate after placing 13th in the short program. She finished 12th overall.

Pesendorfer sat out the 2018–19 ISU Junior Grand Prix series, competing only at the 2018 Golden Bear of Zagreb and 2018 Skate Celje in the fall. At Skate Celje, she won the junior bronze medal.

At the 2019 Austrian Championships, Pesendorfer won the junior silver medal behind Olga Mikutina. She was assigned to the 2019 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival, where she placed seventh.

Competing on the Junior Grand Prix, Pesendorfer placed eleventh at JGP France and seventeenth at JGP Russia. Making her debut in international senior competition, she competed at three events on the Challenger series, placing ninth at Nebelhorn Trophy, eleventh at the Nepela Memorial, and fifteenth at the Golden Spin of Zagreb.

Placing second at junior nationals for the second consecutive season, and then winning bronze in her senior national debut, Pesendorfer finished the season with a fifteenth-placed finish at the 2020 World Junior Championships.[6]