Kevin van der Perren
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Kevin van der Perren in 2009.
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| Country represented | Belgium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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6 August 1982 Ninove, Belgium |
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| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former coach | Silvie De Rijcke Yuri Bureiko Vera Vandecaveye Nikolai Morozov L. van Troyen H. Beelaert |
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| Former choreographer | Lorna Brown Yuri Bureiko |
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| Skating club | KSC Heuvelkouter, Liedekerke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Began skating | 1991 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | April 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Combined total | 219.36 2009 Europeans |
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| Short program | 75.80 2009 Europeans |
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| Free skate | 147.66 2012 Worlds |
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Kevin van der Perren (born 6 August 1982) is a Belgian former competitive figure skater. He is the 2007 & 2009 European bronze medalist, a three-time Grand Prix medalist, and a seven-time (2000–2004, 2007, 2011) Belgian national champion. Van der Perren was the flagbearer for Belgium at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics.
Kevin van der Perren was born on 6 August 1982 in Ninove, Belgium. He married British skater Jenna McCorkell on 17 May 2008.
Van der Perren became interested in figure skating after a traveling ice show came to his town to perform. Although his parents wanted him to play soccer and he was teased by his classmates at school, he refused to give up his dream of being an elite figure skater.
Making his first Olympic appearance, van der Perren finished 12th at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. At the 2002 World Junior Championships, he won the silver medal and also became the first skater to land a three jump combination, consisting of a 3S-3T-3L. He included this combination in his free program until the end of the 2003–04 season.
In November 2005, van der Perren sustained a back injury. He was the flagbearer for Belgium at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, where he finished 9th. He withdrew from the 2006 World Championships due to a hip injury he sustained after the Olympics.
Van der Perren considered not going to the 2007 European Championships, but in the end he participated and finished on the podium, after edging Sergei Davydov by 0.07 for the bronze. This made him the first Belgian singles skater to win a medal at Europeans since 1947. He missed the 2007 World Championships after re-injuring his back a week before the event when he slipped on back crossovers and fell into a barrier. He trained in Belgium and also Coventry, England, due to ice being expensive in his native country.
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