Beda Leon Sieber

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Beda Leon Sieber
Gina Zehnder & Beda Leon Sieber 2024 Worlds Rhythm Dance 7.jpg
Zehnder and Sieber at the 2024 World Championships
Born (2004-05-20) 20 May 2004 (age 20)
Kilchberg, Switzerland
Hometown Au, Switzerland
Height1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)
Figure skating career
CountryFlag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland
Discipline Ice dance
Partner Gina Zehnder
CoachCornelia Leroy
Alisa Besseghier
Skating clubEislaufclub Küsnacht
Began skating2015

Beda Leon Sieber (born 20 May 2004) is a Swiss ice dancer. With his skating partner, Gina Zehnder, he is the 2023 JGP Turkey bronze medalist, and a two-time Swiss junior national champion. Zehnder/Sieber are the first Swiss ice dance team, junior or senior, to win a medal at an ISU Grand Prix event. [1]

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Personal life

Sieber was born on 20 May 2004 in Kilchberg, Switzerland. As of 2023, he attends the United School of Sports in Zürich. Outside of figure skating, Sieber is passionate about sewing and fashion design. [2]

Sieber cites Swiss compatriots Stéphane Lambiel, Sarah Meier, and Denise Biellmann as his skating inspirations. [2]

Career

Early years

Sieber became interested in figure skating after attending an ice show with his family. He took up the sport himself in 2015 at a skating club in Thalwil, Switzerland. Sieber transitioned to his current skating club, Eislaufclub Küsnacht, where he trained as a novice single skater until 2019. [2] In January 2019, Sieber's coach Cornelia Leroy presented both him and his now partner, Gina Zehnder, with the opportunity to compete as a dance team at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics, a home event for the Swiss teenagers, and together, they chose to switch disciplines with that goal in mind. [3]

2019–20 season: Debut of Zehnder/Sieber

Zehnder/Sieber made their junior international debut as an ice dance team at the 2019 Ice Star in October, where they finished 23rd. They gained further competitive experience in the discipline at two additional international junior B events over the fall of 2019, the 2019 Pavel Roman Memorial and the 2019 Bosphorus Cup, where they placed 16th and 19th respectively.[ citation needed ]

Zehnder and Sieber at the 2020 Youth Olympics 2020-01-11 Ice Dance Rhythm Dance (2020 Winter Youth Olympics) by Sandro Halank-0778.jpg
Zehnder and Sieber at the 2020 Youth Olympics

In order to achieve their goal of receiving the ice dance host pick spot at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne, Zehnder/Sieber needed to be the top junior dance team at the 2020 Swiss Figure Skating Championships in December. Despite being newcomers to ice dance with less than a year of training together under their belts, Zehnder/Sieber won the national title by an over nine-point margin over silver medalists Alina Klein / Maxim Kobelt, and were named to the Swiss Youth Olympic team.[ citation needed ]

At the Youth Olympics in January, then-14-year-old Zehnder had the honor of lighting the cauldron at the event's opening ceremony as the youngest athlete in the Swiss delegation. [4] During the ice dance competition, Zehnder/Sieber placed 12th in both the rhythm dance and the free dance for a 12th-place finish overall in the individual event. The duo were also included in the Mixed NOC Team Trophy, grouped into Team Motivation with Ukrainian and Italian single skaters Andrey Kokura and Alessia Tornaghi, and Russian pair team Diana Mukhametzianova / Ilya Mironov. Zehnder/Sieber placed eighth in the team ice dance event, and Team Motivation finished fifth of eight overall.[ citation needed ]

Zehnder/Sieber concluded their debut season at the 2020 World Junior Championships where they placed 29th in the rhythm dance and did not advance to the final segment of competition.[ citation needed ]

2021–22 season

Travel restrictions and health concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic prevented Zehnder/Sieber from competing during the 2020–21 season. The team returned to international competition in September 2021 for their ISU Junior Grand Prix debut at the 2021 JGP Russia. In Krasnoyarsk, the team placed 15th in the rhythm dance and 14th in the free dance for 14th-place finish overall. They replicated this placement at their next event in October, the 2021 JGP Austria. Zehnder/Sieber competed at one final event in the fall in the lead up to their national championships, the 2021 Autumn Talents Cup, where they claimed their first international medal, a silver behind Ukrainian team Myroslava Tkachenko / Andrii Kapran.[ citation needed ]

In November, Zehnder/Sieber defended their junior national title at the 2021 Swiss Figure Skating Championships, winning gold again by an approximately nine-point margin, this time over compatriots Kayleigh Maksymec / Maxmilien Rahier. The team was initially named to the Swiss berth at the 2022 World Junior Championships but were forced to withdraw after Zehnder sustained a knee injury. Zehnder/Sieber ultimately concluded their season at the 2022 Egna Dance Trophy, where they finished 13th.[ citation needed ]

2022–23 season

Zehnder's knee injury continued to impact the team's ability to train throughout 2022. [1] They finally returned to the ice in September, opting to withdraw from their Junior Grand Prix assignments due to lack of preparation time. Zehnder/Sieber opened their competitive season at the 2022 Bosphorus Cup where they placed fourth. The team's only other event during the season was the 2022 Swiss Figure Skating Championships where they placed second in the junior dance category behind Milla O'Brien / Laurin Wiederkehr.[ citation needed ]

2023–24 season: Junior Grand Prix bronze

Fully recovered from injury, Zehnder/Sieber returned to the Junior Grand Prix circuit for their fourth competitive season as a team. At their first assignment, the 2023 JGP Turkey, the team placed fourth in the rhythm dance, but rose to first in the free dance, ultimately placing third overall. Their bronze medal marked the first medal for a Swiss ice dance team at any ISU Grand Prix event, junior or senior. [1]

At their second JGP assignment, the 2023 JGP Poland, Zehnder/Sieber set new personal bests in both segments of competition, as well as overall, and finished just off the podium in fourth place.

Programs

With Zehnder

Season Short program Free skating
2023–2024
[5]
2022–2023
[6]
  • Tango: Dark Tango
    by Edo Notarloberti
  • Spanish Waltz: Amor Dulce Muerte
  • Flamenco: Poeta en el Mar
    by Vicente Amigo
    choreo. by Cornelia Leroy, Alisa Besseghier
2021–2022
[7]
  • Time
    by Nathan Lanier
  • Time Lapse
  • Run
    by Ludovico Einaudi
    choreo. by Cornelia Leroy, Alisa Besseghier
2020–2021
[8]
2019–2020
[9]

Competitive highlights

Ice dance with Gina Zehnder

Competition placements at senior level  [10]
Season 2023–24
World Championships 32nd
Bosphorus Cup 2nd
Competition placements at junior level  [10]
Season 2019–20 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24
Winter Youth Olympics 12th
Winter Youth Olympics (Team event) 5th
World Junior Championships 29th14th
Swiss Championships 1st1st2nd1st
JGP Austria 14th
JGP Poland 4th
JGP Russia 14th
JGP Turkey 3rd
Autumn Talents Cup2nd
Bosphorus Cup 19th4th
Egna Dance Trophy 13th
Ephesus Cup2nd
Ice Star 23rd
Pavel Roman Memorial 16th3rd
Swiss Open1st

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 "Beda Leon Sieber – Junioren-Schweizermeister im Eistanz" [Beda Leon Sieber – junior Swiss champion in ice dance] (in German). Wädenswiler. 15 December 2021.
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  4. ↑ "Figure skater, 14, lights Lausanne Youth Olympic cauldron at Opening Ceremony". NBC Sports. 9 January 2020.
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  6. ↑ "Gina ZEHNDER / Beda Leon SIEBER: 2022/2023". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 8 December 2022. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
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  8. ↑ "Gina ZEHNDER / Beda Leon SIEBER: 2020/2021". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 27 July 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
  9. ↑ "Gina ZEHNDER / Beda Leon SIEBER: 2019/2020". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 12 February 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
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