David Vincour (born 14 March 1984, in
Brno
Brno ( , ; ) is a Statutory city (Czech Republic), city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava (river), Svitava and Svratka (river), Svratka rivers, Brno has about 403,000 inhabitants, making ...
) is a Czech former 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 ...
. Skating with
Kamila Hájková, he became a five-time Czech national champion and competed at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Career
Vincour began skating at age five, stopped until he was 12, then took up ice dancing and competed for Austria with Sabine Pichler and
Barbara Herzog.
[ He then competed with Kamila Hájková for the Czech Republic.][ The two are the 2006-2010 Czech national champions and the 2005 ]Ondrej Nepela Memorial
The Nepela Memorial () is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia, by the Slovak Figure Skating Association (). The competition debuted in ...
bronze medalists.
During the 2006–07 season, Vincour was hospitalized for an extended period due to intestinal problems and underwent surgery and, as a result, they missed the World Championships
A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game ...
.[ After the 2009–10 season, they decided to take some time off from competition and Vincour began skating in shows.][
]
Programs
With Hájková
With Herzog
Competitive highlights
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; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
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With Hájková for the Czech Republic
With Herzog for Austria
With Pichler for Austria
References
External links
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Official website of Hájková and Vincour
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Czech male ice dancers
Austrian male ice dancers
Czech expatriate sportspeople in Austria
Figure skaters from Brno
1984 births
Living people
Figure skaters at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Olympic figure skaters for the Czech Republic
Competitors at the 2009 Winter Universiade
21st-century Czech sportsmen