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Tim Dieck

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Height
  
1.77 m (5 ft 9 ⁄2 in)

Former training locations
  
Toronto, Canada

Home town
  
Dortmund, Germany

Skating club
  
ERC Westfalen

Partner
  
Katharina Müller

Country represented
  
Germany

Born
  
7 April 1996 (age 20) (
1996-04-07
)
Dortmund, Germany

Former partner
  
Florence Clarke, Dana Wehner

Coach
  
Vitali Schulz, James Young, Marina Zueva, Oleg Epstein

Training locations
  
Dortmund and Oberstdorf, Germany; Canton, Michigan, U.S.

Choreographers
  
Massimo Scali, Mark Hanretty

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Tim Dieck (born 7 April 1996) is a German competitive ice dancer. With partner Katharina Müller, he has won five senior international medals, including gold at the 2016 NRW Trophy and silver at the 2016 International Cup of Nice. They placed 12th at the 2015 World Junior Championships.

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Personal life

Tim Dieck was born on 7 April 1996 in Dortmund, Germany. His parents, Martina and Frieder, are involved in figure skating as a coach and judge, respectively, and his sister, Dominique, formerly competed in ice dancing.

Early career

Dieck skated with Dana Wehner in the 2011–12 season. They placed 9th at the 2012 German Junior Championships.

In 2012–13, Dieck began competing with Florence Clarke. They were 5th at the 2013 German Junior Championships. The following season, they debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series, finishing 9th in Riga, Latvia and 15th in Gdańsk, Poland. They were also assigned to the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, but were eliminated after placing 27th in the short dance. Clarke decided to retire at the end of the season.

2014–15 season

In spring 2014, Dieck teamed up with Katharina Müller. Assigned to two 2014–15 ISU Junior Grand Prix events, they placed 8th in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and 7th in Aichi, Japan. After winning the 2015 German junior national title, they were sent to the 2015 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia; ranked 13th in the short dance, they qualified for the final segment and finished 12th overall.

2015–16 season

Competing in the Challenger Series (CS), Müller/Dieck finished tenth in September at the 2015 Nebelhorn Trophy – their first senior international – and eighth the following month at the 2015 Mordovian Ornament. In November, they won bronze at the 2015 NRW Trophy before appearing at their third CS event, the 2015 Tallinn Trophy, where they placed fifth. They were awarded the silver medal at the German Championships in December, having finished second to Kavita Lorenz / Panagiotis Polizoakis, and took bronze at the MNNT Cup. Müller/Dieck were included in Germany's team to the 2016 European Championships in Bratislava, Slovakia, but were eliminated after placing 23rd in the short dance.

Competitive highlights

CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

References

Tim Dieck Wikipedia