Timothy Goebel

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Timothy Goebel
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Goebel competes at the 2001 Grand Prix Final in Kitchener, Ontario.
Full nameTimothy Richard Goebel
Born (1980-09-10) September 10, 1980 (age 44)
Evanston, Illinois
Hometown Fairfax, Virginia
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Figure skating career
CountryFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Discipline Men's singles
RetiredApril 25, 2006
EventGold medal icon (G initial).svgSilver medal icon (S initial).svgBronze medal icon (B initial).svg
Olympic Games 001
World Championships 020
Grand Prix Final 002
U.S. Championships 141
World Junior Championships 010
Junior Grand Prix Final 100
Medal list
Olympic rings.svg Olympic Games Olympic rings.svg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2002 Salt Lake City Singles
World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2002 Nagano Singles
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2003 Washington, D.C. Singles
Grand Prix Final
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1999–2000 Lyon Singles
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2001–02 Kitchener Singles
U.S. Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2001 Boston Singles
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2000 Cleveland Singles
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2002 Los Angeles Singles
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2003 Dallas Singles
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2005 Portland Singles
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1999 Salt Lake City Singles
World Junior Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1997 Seoul Singles
Junior Grand Prix Final
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1997–98 Lausanne Singles

Timothy Richard Goebel (born September 10, 1980) is an American former competitive figure skater. He is the 2002 Olympic bronze medalist. He was the first person to land a quadruple salchow jump in competition [1] and the first person to land three quadruple jumps in one program. He landed 76 career quadruple jumps before his retirement in 2006. [2]

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Personal life

Goebel was born on September 10, 1980, in Evanston, Illinois. [3] He was adopted through Catholic Charities by Ginny and Richard Goebel as an infant. [4] [ citation needed ]

Goebel initially attended Loyola Marymount University. Beginning in the fall of 2006, he studied at Columbia University's School of General Studies, [5] graduating in May 2010 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. [6] [ citation needed ] After working for the Nielsen ratings company, he joined an ad agency, MEC, as a consumer analyst. [7] As of April 2016, he was pursuing a master's degree in data science from New York University Stern School of Business. [8] In January 2017, he began working as a data analyst for Google. [9]

In April 2016, Goebel became engaged to his boyfriend of three years, Thomas Luciano. [8] They married on April 29, 2017, in Newport, Rhode Island. [9]

Career

Early in his career, Goebel was coached by Carol Heiss Jenkins and Glyn Watts near his Illinois home and then moved to California to work with Frank Carroll. [10]

During his skating career and prior to the arrival of Nathan Chen to the sport, Goebel was sometimes referred to as the "Quad King" [11] [12] because of his ability to land quadruple jumps. On March 7, 1998, in Lausanne, Switzerland, at the Junior Grand Prix Final, Goebel became the first skater in the world to land a quadruple Salchow, and the first American skater to land a quadruple jump of any kind in competition. [13] International Skating Union officials ratified the jump at the end of the month after watching a video provided by the parents of Tiffany Stiegler / Johnnie Stiegler. [1]

On October 31, 1999, at the 1999 Skate America in Colorado Springs, Goebel became the first skater to land three quads in one program. In the free skate, he landed a quad salchow in combination, a quad toe loop, and a quad salchow as a solo jump. [14]

Goebel also made history at the 2002 Olympics by becoming the first skater to successfully land a quad Salchow in combination in Olympic competition. Goebel's repertoire of quadruple jumps made him one of the most competitive skaters in the world during the peak of his career. He would land a total of 76 quads in competition. [2] Goebel was heavily criticized early in his career for focusing exclusively on jumping to the detriment of choreography and presentation, but in later years he improved in those areas.

Goebel increasingly struggled with his jumps after 2003 due to injuries. At the 2006 U.S. Championships, in what he had previously announced would be his last competitive season, he was unable to land either a quadruple jump or triple Axel cleanly, and dropped to a seventh-place finish which left him far short of qualifying for the 2006 Winter Olympics. [15] [16]

Goebel represented the Winterhurst Figure Skating Club. He was coached by Audrey Weisiger in Fairfax, Virginia, after having been previously coached by Carol Heiss Jenkins, Glyn Watts and Frank Carroll.

On April 25, 2006, Goebel announced his retirement from competitive skating. [2] He planned to continue to contribute to the sport as a technical specialist, having received certification for competitions sanctioned by the United States Figure Skating Association. He worked as a technical specialist at the Aviator Figure Skating Academy in New York.

He attended Columbia University, graduating in 2010 with a degree in mathematics. [17] In 2016, he received a Master of Science in Business Analytics degree from New York University Stern School of Business, and currently works for Google as a Marketing Mix Modeling Partner Program Manager. [18]

Programs

Goebel performs a hydroblade, one of his signature moves, in 2003. Timothy Goebel 2003 NHK Trophy.jpg
Goebel performs a hydroblade, one of his signature moves, in 2003.
Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2005–2006
[3]
2004–2005
[19]
  • The Queen Symphony
    by Tolga Kashif,
    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
2003–2004
[20]
2002–2003
[21]
  • Rapsodia Espanola, Tango Op. 65 N. 2
    by Espanola

  • Fantasticas
    by J. Turina
2001–2002
[22]

2000–2001
[23]

Second free at Grand Prix Final:



1999–2000

Competitive highlights

Competition placements at senior level [24]
Season1996–971997–981998–991999–20002000–012001–022002–032003–042004–052005–06
Winter Olympics 3rd
World Championships 12th11th4th2nd2nd10th
Four Continents Championships 13th
Grand Prix Final 3rd5th3rd
U.S. Championships 6thWD3rd2nd1st2nd2ndWD2nd7th
GP Cup of China 1st
GP France 4th
GP NHK Trophy 2nd2nd2nd
GP Skate America 2nd1st1st6th
GP Sparkassen 2nd2nd
Nebelhorn Trophy 1st
St. Gervais 2nd
Competition placements at junior level [24] [25]
Season1994–951995–961996–971997–98
World Junior Championships 14th7th2ndWD
Junior Grand Prix Final 1st
U.S. Championships 5th1st
JGP France 1st
JGP Ukraine 1st
Blue Swords 4th2nd

Detailed results

ISU personal best scores in the +3/-3 GOE System
SegmentTypeScoreEvent
TotalTSS208.28 2004 NHK Trophy
Short program TSS73.65 2003 NHK Trophy
TES
PCS
Free skating TSS137.60 2003 Cup of China
TES
PCS

Senior level

Results in the 1996–97 season
DateEvent SP FS Total
PScorePScorePScore
Aug 23–28, 1996 Flag of France.svg 1996 Grand Prix International St. Gervais 2
Jan 13–21, 1996 Flag of the United States.svg 1997 U.S. Championships 1066
Results in the 1997–98 season
DateEvent SP FS Total
PScorePScorePScore
Aug 26–29, 1997 Flag of Germany.svg 1997 Nebelhorn Trophy 111
Results in the 1998–99 season
DateEvent SP FS Total
PScorePScorePScore
Feb 7–14, 1999 Flag of the United States.svg 1999 U.S. Championships 233
Feb 21–28, 1999 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg 1999 Four Continents Championships 121313
Mar 20–28, 1999 Flag of Finland.svg 1999 World Championships 131212
Results in the 1999–2000 season
DateEvent SP FS Total
PScorePScorePScore
Oct 27–31, 1999 Flag of the United States.svg 1999 Skate America 322
Dec 2–5, 1999 Flag of Japan.svg 1999 NHK Trophy 222
Jan 13–16, 2000 Flag of France.svg 1999–2000 Grand Prix Final 543
Feb 6–13, 2000 Flag of the United States.svg 2000 U.S. Championships 222
Mar 23 – Apr 3, 2000 Flag of France.svg 2000 World Championships 71011
Results in the 2000–01 season
DateEvent SP FS Total
PScorePScorePScore
Oct 26–29, 2000 Flag of the United States.svg 2000 Skate America 211
Nov 9–12, 2000 Flag of Germany.svg 2000 Sparkassen Cup on Ice 222
Feb 15–18, 2001 Flag of Japan.svg 2000–01 Grand Prix Final 555
Jan 14–21, 2001 Flag of the United States.svg 2001 U.S. Championships 311
Mar 17–25, 2001 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg 2001 World Championships 444
Results in the 2001–02 season
DateEvent SP FS Total
PScorePScorePScore
Oct 24–28, 2001 Flag of the United States.svg 2001 Skate America 111
Nov 9–11, 2001 Flag of Germany.svg 2001 Sparkassen Cup on Ice 222
Dec 13–16, 2001 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg 2001–02 Grand Prix Final 333
Jan 6–13, 2002 Flag of the United States.svg 2002 U.S. Championships 122
Feb 9–21, 2002 Flag of the United States.svg 2002 Winter Olympics 333
Mar 16–24, 2002 Flag of Japan.svg 2002 World Championships 422
Results in the 2002–03 season
DateEvent SP FS Total
PScorePScorePScore
Jan 6–13, 2003 Flag of the United States.svg 2003 U.S. Championships 132
Mar 24–30, 2003 Flag of the United States.svg 2003 World Championships 222
Results in the 2003–04 season
DateEvent SP FS Total
PScorePScorePScore
Nov 6–9, 2003 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg 2003 Cup of China 211
Nov 27–30, 2003 Flag of Japan.svg 2003 NHK Trophy 122
Results in the 2004–05 season
DateEvent SP FS Total
PScorePScorePScore
Nov 4–7, 2004 Flag of Japan.svg 2004 NHK Trophy 222
Jan 9–16, 2005 Flag of the United States.svg 2005 U.S. Championships 122
Mar 14–20, 2005 Flag of Russia.svg 2005 World Championships 14910
Results in the 2005–06 season
DateEvent SP FS Total
PScorePScorePScore
Oct 20–23, 2005 Flag of the United States.svg 2005 Skate America 686
Nov 17–20, 2005 Flag of France.svg 2005 Trophée Éric Bompard 464
Jan 7–15, 2006 Flag of the United States.svg 2006 U.S. Championships 587

Junior level

Results in the 1994–95 season
DateEvent SP FS Total
PScorePScorePScore
Nov 21–27, 1994 Flag of Hungary.svg 1995 World Junior Championships 171214
Jan 6–13, 1995 Flag of the United States.svg 1995 U.S. Championships (Junior) 655
Results in the 1995–96 season
DateEvent SP FS Total
PScorePScorePScore
Nov 26 – Dec 2, 1995 Flag of Australia (converted).svg 1996 World Junior Championships 1267
Jan 13–21, 1996 Flag of the United States.svg 1996 U.S. Championships (Junior) 111
Results in the 1996–97 season
DateEvent SP FS Total
PScorePScorePScore
Nov 24 – Dec 1, 1996 Flag of South Korea.svg 1997 World Junior Championships 522
Results in the 1997–98 season
DateEvent SP FS Total
PScorePScorePScore
Aug 19–23, 1997 Flag of France.svg 1997 JS Grand Prix de Saint Gervais 1
Sep 25–28, 1997 Flag of Ukraine.svg 1997 JS Ukrainian Souvenir 1
Mar 5–8, 1998 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg 1997–98 Junior Series Final 411

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