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Brian Joubert (born September 20, 1984) is a French figure skater. He is the 2007 World Champion, a three-time (2004, 2007 & 2009) European champion, a six-time (2003-2008) French National champion, and the 2006 Grand Prix champion. As of December 2009[update], Joubert is ranked fourth in the world[1].
[edit] Personal lifeJoubert was born in Poitiers, Vienne to Jean-Michel and Raymonde Joubert. He suffered a life-threatening illness at the age of 11 months, which led to the removal of one kidney. [2] Because of this illness, Joubert chose figure skating over more violent sports that he favored. He began skating at the age of four with his two older sisters. The siblings started out with ice dancing, but Joubert became fascinated with the jumping aspect of singles skating and switched disciplines. [3] Joubert has been considered somewhat of a heartthrob in his native country, France. This reputation has been contributed to by Joubert's short relationship with former Miss France, Lætitia Bléger. [3] He later brought a lawsuit against Bléger for 40,000 Euros for insinuating that he was homosexual and that their relationship was arranged to hide this. [4] Bléger and two magazines that published her allegations were ordered by a French court to pay a total of 17,000 Euros, and to publish the court ruling in one of the two magazines. [5]. [6]. Joubert is a sponsor for an association for children with Williams syndrome. [2] In March 13, 2006, Joubert published his biography, Brian Joubert: le Feu sur la Glace (Brian Joubert: the fire on ice), in French. [7] [edit] CareerJoubert's first major international competition was the 2000 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, where he placed 15th. He failed to qualify for the French team for Junior Worlds for the next year: because of this, the then-president of the French Ice Sports Federation, Didier Gailhaguet, entered Joubert in the 2001 Top Jump competition, where he placed second.[8] The 2000-2001 season was the only season Joubert spent on the international junior circuit. Joubert made his international senior debut at the 2001 Skate America, where he placed 9th. At French Nationals, he won the bronze medal, qualifying him for the 2002 European Figure Skating Championships. There, he won the bronze medal, which earned him a spot on the French team to the 2002 Olympics, where he placed 14th. Joubert rose one spot to 13th at the World Championships the following month. Joubert had better results in the 2002-3 season. Following the withdrawal of Alexei Yagudin from the 2002 Skate America competition due to a hip injury, Joubert rose to the occasion and won the competition. With a fifth place finish at the Trophee Lalique, he qualified for his first Grand Prix Final, where he won the bronze medal. Joubert also won the French national championships that season, the first of six consecutive titles. He won silver at Europeans and placed 6th at Worlds. In the 2003-2004 season, Joubert once again won a medal on the Grand Prix circuit. At Europeans, he became the first Frenchman to win the European Championship in 40 years and the first non-Russian to win the event since 1996. He won his first World medal later that year, a silver.  The 2004-2005 season started well for Joubert; he won two Grand Prix medals and won the silver medal at the 2005 European Figure Skating Championships, but was then only 6th at the 2005 World Figure Skating Championships. Joubert fought back in 2005-2006, but had inconsistent results: he won the bronze medal at the 2006 Europeans, then finished sixth at the 2006 Winter Olympics. Joubert had a better showing at the 2006 World Figure Skating Championships, winning the short program and finishing with a silver medal behind Stéphane Lambiel. Joubert won every event he entered in the 2006-7 season. These included his two Grand Prix assignments, Trophée Eric Bompard and the Cup of Russia and the 2006-2007 ISU Grand Prix Final in Saint Petersburg. He reclaimed his European title at the 2007 European Figure Skating Championships in Warsaw. Despite suffering a foot injury in February, Joubert recovered in time to win the 2007 World Figure Skating Championships.[9] Joubert began the 2007-2008 season at the 2007 Skate Canada, which he won. He was forced to withdraw from the 2007 Trophee Eric Bompard, his second Grand Prix event, before the event began, due to illness.[10] In the European championships in January 2008, Joubert earned the bronze medal despite a fall on the triple axel in the short program and mistakes in the long program. In March 2008, he competed at the World Championships, where he won the silver medal behind Canadian Jeffrey Buttle [11]. Joubert was assigned to the 2008 Trophée Eric Bompard and the 2008 Cup of Russia for the 2008-2009 ISU Grand Prix series. After a 4th-place finish at Trophée Eric Bompard, Joubert won the Cup of Russia and qualified for the 2008-2009 Grand Prix Final. He withdrew from the Grand Prix Final before the long program due to a back injury.[12] Joubert also withdrew from the 2009 French Figure Skating Championships prior to the event.[13] At the 2009 European Figure Skating Championships, Joubert scored a new personal best to take the lead after the short program, and finished second in the long program, with enough points to win his third European title; it was his eighth European medal in as many appearances. After leading the field in the short program, Joubert made mistakes on some of his jumps in the long program and finished third at the 2009 Worlds. He then made a coaching change prior to the season ending event, the World Team Trophy, where he finished second. Joubert's assigned events for the 2009-10 Grand Prix series were the Trophée Eric Bompard and the NHK Trophy. As in the 2008-9 season, Joubert skated to a disappointing fourth place finish at the Trophee Eric Bompard, before winning his second Grand Prix event. The combined placements enabled him to qualify for the Grand Prix Final.[14] However, a foot injury sustained in practice in late November required surgery and led to his withdrawal from that event,[15] and from French Nationals in December.[16] [edit] Skating techniqueJoubert is known for his strong jumping ability. He has a consistent quadruple salchow jump and a quadruple toe loop jump. At the 2006 Cup of Russia competition, Joubert landed three quadruple jumps in his free skate: two toe loops (one in combination) and a salchow.[17][18]. Joubert has stated in interviews that he considers quadruple jumps to be important for the future of figure skating as a sport[19]. Joubert has been criticized for the lack of variety in his spins, but this area has shown a marked improvement after Joubert's work with Swiss skater Lucinda Ruh starting in the 2005-2006 season. [edit] Coaching changesJoubert trained for 15 years with Veronique Guyon because of his desire to remain close to his family in Poitiers. Guyon resigned from her position in the summer of 2003 due to her desire to spend more time with her family. Joubert then started training for the 2003-04 season with Laurent Depouilly[19], and took on Alexei Yagudin as his 'advisor'. [19] Joubert parted ways with Yagudin because of Yagudin's dislike of Nikolai Morozov, Joubert's choreographer at the time. [3] Citing a lack of support from his coach, Joubert fired Depouilly and returned to Guyon for a brief period of time. However, Guyon's demands that Joubert stop working with his mother and that she should get paid by receiving 10% of his prize money from the 2005-06 season caused their relationship to further deteriorate, and they parted ways. [2] Joubert switched to Andrei Berenzitsev, and in September 2006 to Jean-Christophe Simond. Following Joubert's disappointing third-place finish at the 2009 Worlds, Simond and Joubert ended their work together.[20] Joubert returned to his former coach, Laurent Depouilly in April 2009. Joubert has been criticized over his association with Didier Gailhaguet, the former and since reinstated head of the French figure skating federation. However, Joubert credits Gailhaguet as having helped his career enormously.[19] [edit] Programs
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