2000 German Silver Medallist
March 2003/June 2003 Message from Webmaster:
I recently had a chance to speak with Michael and got a chance to find out what he is doing now. Since leaving Mariposa and the competitive skating circuit Michael went back to Germany and starting coaching. There is alot of information on what's new, and I am in the process of transcribing my interview with him. Please come back soon or email me and let me know you would like to be notified when this site is updated.
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Have a question that you have wanted to ask Michael? Please submit questions for Michael to me (Lisa, webmaster). Michael is very interested in answering fans questions......
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Lisa and Michael 2001 (first visit back to Canada) | ||
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Michael on recent visit at Timm's 2003 | ||
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German Men's Figure Skater | ||
Michael Hopfes | ||
Hometown: D- Geretsried, Germany, Elßestr.15 | ||
Place of Birth: Wolfratshausen | ||
Date of Birth: February 11, 1976 | ||
Coach: Karin Gaiser, Douglas Leigh, Robert Tebby | ||
Club: Mev Munich (Mariposa) | ||
Hobbies: Tennis and Snakes | ||
Michael is no longer training in Barrie at the Mariposa Club, he is now back home in Munich, Germany coaching. We miss his style and personality here in Barrie. Good luck on your future endeavors Michael. - Rinkrat |
Pictures above by JB Mitten
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Color: Blue | Food: Italian |
Snack: German Chocolate | Junk Food: Pizza and "a really good hamburger." |
Book Genre: Mysteries | Movie: Gladiator |
Countries traveled: Australia and Bali Indonesia. |
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Music: all kinds. I listen to everything Kyle Minog, Sting, Desert Rose | |
Animal: my dog, snoopy (a white chiwawa) I got it here in Canada. I love animals, I had a snake, water dragon, guinea pigs....but I just have a dog now, I would like to have an aquarium with sea water but its expensive, maybe later. I went to a place today (the aquarium emporium) its beautiful in there, they were feeding lil sharks with gold fishes. It was crazy | |
Favorite time of year: Summer "I dont like winter, In Germany its always so wet and cold. You're always cold on the rink, and you're always cold going out, you just want it to be warm, so I just love the summer." | |
TV Show: anything to do with animals (Discovery Channel) and Steve Erkle from Family Matters, he’s stupid but I like him. Shows like Pop stars, there are some sweet characters in there | |
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Competition | Placement | Competition | Placement |
2000 German Nationals | 2 | 1997 Nationals | 2 |
Sparkassen Cup 1999 | 11 | 1996 Germany Cup | 1 |
Skate America | 9 | 1996 Barvarian Championships | 1 |
Octoberfest 1999 | 1 | 1996 Nationals | 3 |
1999 German Nationals | 3 | 1995 Barvarian Championships | 1 |
1998 Skate Canada | 9 | 1994 Barvarian Championships | 1 |
1998 Skate America | 7 | 1993 Junior Worlds | 14 |
1998 Germany Cup | 1 | 1992 Junior Worlds | 12 |
1997 Nations Cup | 10 | 1990 German Junior Champion | 1 |
1997 Worlds | 21 | 1989 German Junior Champion | 1 |
Michael started skating when he was 9 years old. |
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How old were you when you landed your first triple jump, which one was it? First jump was a waltz Jump, first triple salchow (I was very old) about 15 years old | |
When asked who is idol is, he replied, "It was Victor Petrenko," and now who is it? "Its difficult to say, I think Elvis of course hes a sportsman, not just his jumps and not just his performance, its his practicing and everything. I think hes a real athlete, he doesnt drink, he doesnt smoke, he works very hard. Ive never seen a man that works so hard." | |
His coach is Doug Leigh in Canada. Michael used Dragon Heart in 1998 for his free program and Yanni for his short. | |
His favorite program to perform is his new short program for this year, Lord of the Dance. "It’s something special, I like it. I saw Lord of the Dance and Daniel Wiess from the Lord of the dance Choreographed the program for me. It’s very hard to skate but I love it, it’s different." | |
Michael would like to go pro after the amateur circuit…"If I’m good enough...then why not." | |
When recently asked (2003) if he would perform in Stars on Ice or another kind of tour he said he would like to do something like that. Michael loves to perform and is a real crowd pleaser! | |
Michael collects all the gift thrown and given to him from competitions and has quite a collection. |
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I had the great pleasure of watching Michael and most of the rest of Mariposa's STARS compete in this years Octoberfest (1999). It was wonderful to watch Michael, Takeshi, Markus and Gules compete head to head. Michael gained crowd appreciation once again this year with his stunning foot work in his version of Lord of the Dance. It won him 1st place! All my other fav's at Mariposa did great too, it was hard to root for one over the other so I didn't! But I was really glad to be in attendance for his awesome performances. |
Takeshi Honda and Michael Hopfes |
This page was the cool site of the month for November/December 1998 on the Unofficial Todd Eldredge Page.
All pictures are the property of Lisa and can't be duplicated without permission. Pictures in competition by K. Stickel
Updated: June 05, 2003 08:19:24 PM