Yannick Kocon (born 20 August 1986) is a French former

pair skater Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a ...

. Competing for

Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...

with

Nicole Della Monica Nicole Della Monica (born 3 June 1989) is a retired Italian pair skater. With her former partner Matteo Guarise, she is a seven-time Italian Figure Skating Championships, Italian national champion (2016–22) and has represented Italy at the Fig ...

, he won four international medals and the Italian national title twice (2009–10). The pair placed sixth at the 2009 and 2010

European Championships A European Championship is the top level international sports competition between European athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs. In the plural, the European Championships also refers t ...

and 12th at the

2010 Winter Olympics The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games () and also known as Vancouver 2010 (), were an international winter multi-sport event held from February 12 to 28, 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with ...

Career

Kocon competed for France as a

single skater Single skating is a discipline of figure skating in which male and female skaters compete individually. Men's singles and women's singles are governed by the International Skating Union (ISU). Figure skating is the oldest winter sport contested ...

on the junior level. He started

pair skating Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating ...

in 2007 when he teamed up with

, who was also a single skater until then. They represented

Italy at the 2010 Winter Olympics Italy at the Olympics, Italy participated at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Medalists Alpine skiing ;Men ;Women Biathlon ;Men ;Women Bobsleigh Cross-country skiing ;Men ;Women Figure sk ...

. Their partnership ended in January 2011 — Della Monica had a chronic inflammation in her left knee and her recovery time was uncertain. In 2012, Kocon trained with

Lubov Iliushechkina Liubov Ivanovna Ilyushechkina (, born 5 November 1991) is a Russian-born Canadian pair skater. Ilyushechkina began competing for Canada with Dylan Moscovitch in 2014, and they were the 2017 Four Continents bronze medalists, two-time bronze medal ...

Programs

With Della Monica

Singles career

Competitive highlights

Pair skating with Nicole Della Monica (for Italy)

Single skating (for France)

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kocon, Yannick 1986 births Living people Sportspeople from Évry, Essonne Italian male pair skaters French male single skaters Italian people of French descent Figure skaters at the 2010 Winter Olympics Olympic figure skaters for Italy 21st-century Italian sportsmen 21st-century French sportsmen