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Stefanie Pesendorfer (born 31 August 2003) is an Austrian figure skater. She is the 2019 Tirnavia Ice Cup champion, the 2019 Prague Ice Cup champion, and the 2022 Austrian champion. She finished twelfth at the 2018 World Junior Championships and competed at the 2022 World Championships.
Personal life
Pesendorfer was born on 31 August 2003 in Wels, Austria. As of February 2019, she is a high school student at Handelsschule für Leistungssport in Linz.
Career
= Early years
=Pesendorfer began learning to skate in 2007, at age four. After impressing in a kindergarten course, she joined Union Eissportklub in Linz. She competed in the advanced novice ranks from October 2015 through April 2017.
= 2017–2018 season
=Coached by Denise Jaschek and Markus Haider in Linz, Pesendorfer made her international junior debut at the ISU Junior Grand Prix in Austria in August 2017. She finished sixteenth at JGP Austria and twelfth 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 thirteenth in the short program. She finished twelfth overall.
= 2018–2019 season
=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.
= 2019–2020 season
=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.
= 2020–2021 season
=Debuting at the 2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, an event attended only by European skaters due to pandemic-related travel restrictions, Pesendorfer placed twelfth.
= 2021–2022 season
=Pesendorfer placed sixteenth at the 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy. She went on to win the bronze medal at two minor internationals and finish fifteenth at the 2021 CS Cup of Austria before winning the Austrian national title. She was nevertheless not named to the Austrian Olympic team, but made her World Championship debut, finishing thirty-second.
= 2022–2023 season
=Beginning the season on the Challenger circuit, Pesendorfer finished in eighth place at both the 2022 CS Nebelhorn Trophy and the 2022 CS Nepela Memorial, before coming tenth at the 2022 CS Ice Challenge. She won medals at a number of other minor internationals, and took the bronze medal at the Austrian championships.
= 2023–2024 season
=Competing at the 2023 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, Pesendorfer came in twelfth place. Going on to compete at the 2023 CS Budapest Trophy, Pessendorfer placed fourteenth in the short program but withdrew prior to the free skate. She subsequently competed at the 2023 NRW Trophy where she would place fourth.
At the 2024 Austrian Championships, Pessendorfer won the silver medal behind Olga Mikutina. She then closed the season by finishing fifth at the 2024 Dragon Trophy.
= 2024–25 season
=In August 2024, it was announced that Pessendorfer had left longtime coaches, Denise Jaschek and Markus Haider, and had moved to Oberstdorf, Germany to train under Niko Ulanovsky and Ria Schiffner.
Beginning the season at the 2024 CS Trophée Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur in mid-October, Pessendorfer finished fourteenth.
Programs
Competitive highlights
CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
Detailed results
Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships. ISU Personal bests are highlighted in bold.
= Senior results
== Junior results
=References
External links
Stefanie Pesendorfer at the International Skating Union
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Stefanie Pesendorfer
- 2024 CS Warsaw Cup
- 2024–25 figure skating season
- 2021–22 figure skating season
- 2024 CS Trophée Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur
- 2022–23 figure skating season
- 2022 World Figure Skating Championships
- 2023 CS Nebelhorn Trophy
- International Challenge Cup
- NRW Trophy
