Christian Nüchtern (born 28 January 1992) is a former German competitive

ice dancer Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. A ...

. With skating partner

Shari Koch Shari Koch (born 23 September 1993) is a German former competitive ice dancer. With skating partner Christian Nüchtern, she is the 2014 Bavarian Open silver medalist, 2017 Winter Universiade bronze medalist, and 2019 German national champio ...

, he is the 2014

Bavarian Open The Bavarian Open is an international figure skating competition held in February at the Eissportzentrum Oberstdorf in Oberstdorf, Germany. It is organized by the Skating Union of Bavaria. Since 2011, it has been sanctioned by the Deutsche Eisla ...

silver medalist,

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bronze medalist, and 2019 German national champion.

Career

Nüchtern started learning to skate in 1994. He and Koch made their international debut at the 2008 NRW Trophy. They placed in the top ten at the

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and 2013 World Junior Championships and won the German junior national title three times (2011–13). Koch/Nüchtern won their first senior international medal, silver, at the 2014

. After missing the entire 2014–15 season, they returned to international competition in February 2016 at the Bavarian Open. In February 2017, they received the bronze medal at the

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, Kazakhstan.

Programs

(with Koch)

Competitive highlights

''GP:

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; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix'' With Koch

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nuchtern, Christian German male ice dancers Winter World University Games medalists in figure skating 1992 births Living people Sportspeople from Siegen FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Germany Competitors at the 2017 Winter Universiade 21st-century German sportsmen