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Martin Bidař (born 24 February 1999) is a Czech pair skater, who currently competes with Jelizaveta Žuková. They are two-time Czech national champions (2020–2021) and represented the Czech Republic at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Martin Bidař
Dušková and Bidař at the 2015–16 JGP Final
Personal information
Country represented	Czech Republic
Born	(1999-02-24) 24 February 1999 (age 23) České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Home town	České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Height	1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Partner	Jelizaveta Žuková
Former partner	Hanna Abrazhevich Anna Dušková
Coach	Bruno Marcotte Petr Bidař
Former coach	Vladislav Zhovnirski Dmitri Savin Tomáš Verner Eva Horklová Bruno Marcotte Iveta Bidařová Markéta Procházková
Choreographer	Benoît Richaud
Former choreographer	Dmitri Savin Petr Bidař Maurizio Margaglio Rostislav Sinicyn Gabriela Žilková Hrázská
Skating club	BK České Budějovice
Training locations	Oakville, Ontario Prague Bergamo, Italy
Former training locations	Brno České Budějovice Montreal, Quebec Flims, Switzerland
Began skating	2003
World standing	Pairs with Abrazhevich 51 (2018–19) Pairs with Dušková 48 (2017–18) 14 (2016–17) 22 (2015–16) 40 (2014–15) 55 (2013–14)
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	159.73 2022 Europeans
Short program	60.88 2021 CS Warsaw Cup
Free skate	105.33 2022 Europeans
Medal record Representing  Czech Republic Figure skating: Pairs World Junior Championships 2016 Debrecen Pairs Winter Youth Olympics 2016 Lillehammer Pairs Junior Grand Prix Final 2016–17 Marseille Pairs 2015–16 Barcelona Pairs Representing Mixed-NOCs Winter Youth Olympics 2016 Lillehammer Mixed NOC team

With former partner Anna Dušková, he is the 2016 World Junior champion, 2016 Youth Olympic silver medalist (individually and in the team event), and 2015 JGP Final silver medalist. Dušková/Bidař represented the Czech Republic at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Personal life

Martin Bidař was born on 24 February 1999 in České Budějovice, Czech Republic.[1] He is the son of a figure skating coach, Iveta Bidařová, and the younger brother of a former pair skater, Petr Bidař.[2] His sisters were also figure skaters.[3]

Skating career

Early years

Martin Bidař started learning to skate in 2003.[1] Originally single skaters, he and Anna Dušková began skating together as a pair after their coach, Eva Horklová, suggested the idea.[3] Recalling their beginnings, Dušková stated, "It was quite embarrassing at first, because everybody was skating singles and we had to hold hands. We were so young and shy."[3] In the 2011–2012 season, they competed together on the novice national level.

2013–2014 season: Junior international debut

Dušková/Bidař's ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) debut came in the 2013–2014 season; they finished eighth in September 2013 in Košice, Slovakia, and sixth the next month in Ostrava, Czech Republic. In March 2014, the pair placed tenth at the World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, having ranked tenth in both segments.

2014–2015 season

In 2014–2015, Dušková/Bidař continued on the JGP series, finishing tenth in Estonia and eighth in Germany. They came in eighth at the 2015 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, after placing ninth in both segments.

2015–2016 season: World Junior champions

Although based mainly in the Czech Republic,[4] Dušková/Bidař also spent some time training in Montreal and Sochi in the summer of 2015 and made another visit to Montreal during the competitive season.[3]

Competing in the 2015 JGP series, Dušková/Bidař won a silver medal in August in Linz, Austria, and finished fourth the following month in Riga, Latvia. The results qualified them for the 2015 JGP Final, held in December 2015 in Barcelona, Spain. Ranked third in the short program and second in the free skate, Dušková/Bidař edged out Russia's Atakhanova/Spiridonov by 0.33 for the silver medal behind Borisova/Sopot, who won gold by a margin of 9.53 points.[5] They became the first Czech pair to step on the podium at a JGP Final.

In February 2016, Dušková/Bidař competed in Hamar, Norway, at the Winter Youth Olympics, placing first in the short program, second in the free skate, and second overall with a total score 2.53 less than Borisova/Sopot. Their silver is the Czech Republic's first Youth Olympic medal in figure skating. In March, Dušková/Bidař won gold at the 2016 World Junior Championships in Debrecen, Hungary.[6] Ranked first in both segments, they outscored two Russian pairs – silver medalists Mishina/Mirzoev by 9.22 points and bronze medalists Borisova]]/Sopot by 12.82 points – to become the Czech Republic's first World Junior champions in figure skating. They are also the first pair skaters from outside China, Russia, or the United States to win the competition since 2001. On their future plans, Dušková stated that "there will be less and less singles competitions for me. We will concentrate on pairs."[7]

2016–2017 season: Senior debut

Ahead of the season, Dušková/Bidař spent three weeks training in Montreal before returning to the Czech Republic.[8] Opening their season on the JGP series, the pair won gold at their September event in Ostrava, ahead of Atakhanova/Spiridonov, and then silver the following month in Dresden, behind Mishina/Mirzoev. Later in October, making their senior international debut, they outscored Austrians Ziegler/Kiefer to win the International Cup of Nice. In December, they placed second to Mishina/Mirzoev at the JGP Final in Marseille.

Dušková/Bidař placed seventh at the 2017 European Championships in Ostrava, and fourteenth at the 2017 World Championships in Helsinki.

2017–2018 season: Pyeongchang Olympics, end of Duškova/Bidař

In September 2017, Dušková/Bidař competed at the Nebelhorn Trophy, the final qualifying opportunity for the 2018 Winter Olympics. The pair placed ninth and earned a spot for the Czech Republic in the pairs event at the Olympics.

Dušková injured a knee ligament during a warm-up before training in late October and decided later to undergo an operation.[9][10] As a result, the pair withdrew from their two Grand Prix assignments – the 2017 Cup of China and 2017 Internationaux de France.[9]

Dušková/Bidař returned to competition at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. They qualified to the free skate by placing fifteenth in the short program and went on to finish fourteenth overall.[11] Ranked thirteenth in the short and eleventh in the free, the pair finished eleventh at the 2018 World Championships in Milan, Italy. On 27 April 2018, they announced that they had parted ways.[12][13][14]

2018–2019 Season: Partnership with Abrazhevich

On September 25, 2018 it was announced that Martin Bidař partnered up with Hanna Abrazhevich of Belarus. They finished eighteenth at the 2019 World Championships. On May 17, 2019 they announced the end of their partnership.

2019–2020 season: Debut of Zhuk/Bidař

On June 26, 2019, Bidař announced a new partnership with Russian pair skater Elizaveta Zhuk. In their first season together they competed exclusively domestically, winning the Czech national title.[15]

2020–2021 season

With the COVID-19 pandemic limiting international opportunities, Zhuk/Bidař made their debut internationally at the 2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, one of only four pairs on the preliminary entry list.[16] They were fifth in the short, fourth in the free, and fourth overall.[17] They subsequently competed at the 2021 World Championships, placing fifteenth and in the process qualifying a berth for a Czech pair at the 2022 Winter Olympics.[15][18]

2021–2022 season: Beijing Olympics

In September, the Czech federation officially named Zhuk/Bidař to the Czech Olympic team.[19] They made their debut at the 2021 CS Finlandia Trophy, where they placed ninth. They later competed at a second Challenger event, finishing twelfth at the 2021 CS Warsaw Cup.[15]

Zhuk opted to restyle her name as Jelizaveta Žuková in advance of the Olympics. Žuková/Bidař made their European Championships debut in Tallinn, finishing in twelfth place.[15]

Žuková/Bidař began the 2022 Winter Olympics as the Czech entries in the pairs' short program Olympic team event, where they placed eighth of nine, earning three points for the Czech team.[20] Team Czech Republic did not advance to the next stage of the competition, and finished eighth overall.[21] With two falls in the short program of the pairs event, they finished seventeenth and were the first team to miss qualification for the free skate.[22] Žuková sustained an ankle injury in training, as a result of which they did not compete at the 2022 World Championships.[23]

2022–2023 season

Žuková/Bidař were eighth at the 2022 CS Nebelhorn Trophy to start the season, before placing sixth at the 2022 Skate Canada International.[15]

Programs

With Zhuk

Season	Short program	Free skating
2022–2023 [24]	Keeping Me Alive by Jonathan Roy choreo. by Benoit Richaud	So Far by Olafur Arnalds & Arnor Dan choreo. by Benoit Richaud
2021–2022 [25]	Boom Boom by 2WEI choreo. by Benoit Richaud	So Far by Olafur Arnalds & Arnor Dan choreo. by Benoit Richaud
2020–2021 [26]	Prologue (from West Side Story) by Leonard Bernstein choreo. by Dmitri Savin	Ave Maria by Franz Schubert arranged by Rob Tyger, Kay Denar performed by Sarah Connor choreo. by Dmitri Savin

With Abrazhevich

Season	Short program	Free skating
2018–2019 [27]	Le Di a la Caza Alcance by Michael Nyman performed by Estrella Morente choreo. by Petr Bidař	The Hollywood Wiz (from Cirque du Soleil) by Andreas Carlsson, Brian Bacon choreo. by Dmitri Savin

With Dušková

Season	Short program	Free skating	Exhibition
2017–2018 [1]	LA 40 (Album: Tango Hereje) performed by The Mozart Tango Players choreo. by Maurizio Margaglio	Cirque du Soleil medley Once Upon a Time (from La Nouba) La Nouba (from La Nouba) Pearl (from Koozå) Klezmer Moment (from Corteo) choreo. by Rostislav Sinicyn
2016–2017 [28]	LA 40 (Album: Tango Hereje) performed by The Mozart Tango Players choreo. by Maurizio Margaglio	La leyenda del beso by Raúl di Blasio Historia de un Amor by Pérez Prado La leyenda del beso by Raúl di Blasio	Mamboleo by Mambo Mania
2015–2016 [4]	Cirque du Soleil by René Dupéré	La leyenda del beso by Raúl di Blasio Historia de un Amor by Pérez Prado La leyenda del beso by Raúl di Blasio	Mamboleo by Mambo Mania
2014–2015 [29]	Cirque du Soleil	Burlesque: Jungle Berlin by Joseph L. Altruda Show Me How You Burlesque Bound to You
2013–2014 [30]	Italian Street Song by Victor Herbert Waltz Italian Street Song by Victor Herbert	Burlesque: Jungle Berlin by Joseph L. Altruda Show Me How You Burlesque Bound to You
2012–2013	Italian Street Song by Victor Herbert Waltz Italian Street Song by Victor Herbert	Amélie (soundtrack) Le Banquet by Yann Tiersen
2011–2012	unknown	Amélie (soundtrack) Le Banquet by Yann Tiersen

Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

With Zhuk

International[15]
Event	19–20	20–21	21–22	22–23
Olympics			17th
Worlds		15th	WD
Europeans			12th
GP NHK Trophy				WD
GP Skate Canada				6th
CS Finlandia Trophy			9th
CS Golden Spin			WD
CS Nebelhorn Trophy		4th		8th
CS Warsaw Cup			12th
Autumn Talents Cup			1st
Challenge Cup		4th
National[15]
Czech Champ.	1st	1st	WD
Four Nationals	[lower-alpha 1]	1st	WD
Team events
Olympics			8th T 8th P
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew

With Abrazhevich

International[31]
Event	18–19
Worlds	18th
Bavarian Open	5th
Ice Mall Cup	4th

With Dušková

International[5]
Event	11–12	12–13	13–14	14–15	15–16	16–17	17–18
Olympics							14th
Worlds						14th	11th
Europeans						7th
GP Cup of China							WD
GP France							WD
CS Nebelhorn							9th
Cup of Nice						1st
International: Junior[5]
Junior Worlds			10th	8th	1st
Youth Olympics					2nd
JGP Final					2nd	2nd
JGP Austria					2nd
JGP Czech Rep.			6th			1st
JGP Estonia				10th
JGP Germany				8th		2nd
JGP Latvia					4th
JGP Slovakia			8th
Ice Challenge		1st N		1st J	1st J
NRW Trophy				1st J	2nd J
National[5]
Czech Champ.	1st N	1st N	1st J	1st J
Team events
Youth Olympics					2nd T 2nd P
WD = Withdrew Levels: N = Advanced novice; J = Junior T = Team result; P = Personal result. Medals awarded for team result only.

Single skating

International[32]
Event	08–09	12–13	13–14	15–16
Ice Challenge			4th N
New Year's Cup			2nd N
Seibt Memorial		2nd N
Tirnavia Ice Cup			2nd N
Warsaw Cup	6th N
National
Czech Champ.				4th
N = Advanced novice level

Detailed results

With Zhuk

2022–23 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
October 28–30, 2022	2022 Skate Canada International	6 52.84	7 100.66	6 153.50
September 21–24, 2022	2022 CS Nebelhorn Trophy	9 49.67	8 97.65	8 147.32
2021–22 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
February 18–19, 2022	2022 Winter Olympics	17 54.64	—	17 54.64
February 4–7, 2022	2022 Winter Olympics – Team event	8 56.70	—	8T
January 10–16, 2022	2022 European Championships	15 54.40	10 105.33	12 159.73
November 17–20, 2021	2021 CS Warsaw Cup	8 60.88	12 96.25	12 157.13
October 27–30, 2021	2021 Autumn Talents Cup	1 46.96	1 91.44	1 138.40
October 7–10, 2021	2021 CS Finlandia Trophy	9 48.36	10 93.90	9 142.26
2020–21 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
March 22–28, 2021	2021 World Championships	16 54.30	15 102.99	15 157.29
February 26–28, 2021	2021 Challenge Cup	5 54.13	4 108.98	4 163.11
December 10–12, 2020	2021 Four Nationals Championships	1 55.83	1 87.67	1 143.50
September 23–26, 2020	2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy	5 51.20	4 91.83	4 143.03
2019–20 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
December 13–14, 2019	2020 Four Nationals Championships Domestic event	1 49.12	1 94.47	1 143.59

References

External links

Media related to Martin Bidař at Wikimedia Commons

• Elizaveta Zhuk / Martin Bidař at the International Skating Union
• Hanna Abrazhevich / Martin Bidař at the International Skating Union
• Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař at the International Skating Union

На других языках

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[ru] Бидарж, Мартин

Мартин Бидарж (чеш. Martin Bidař; род. 24 февраля 1999, Ческе-Будеёвице, Южночешский край, Чехия) — чешский фигурист, выступающий в парном катании. В паре с Анной Душковой он победитель Кубка Ниццы, чемпион мира среди юниоров и олимпийский вице-чемпион на юношеских играх (2016 года). Двукратный чемпион Чехии среди юниоров в парном катание.

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