Natálie Taschlerová (born 9 December 2001) is a Czech ice dancer. With her brother and skating partner, Filip Taschler, she is the 2020 Nebelhorn Trophy champion and 2022 Czech national champion.
Natálie Taschlerová | |
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![]() Taschlerová / Taschler at the 2020 European Championships | |
Personal information | |
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Born | (2001-12-09) 9 December 2001 (age 20) Brno, Czech Republic |
Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) |
Partner | Filip Taschler |
Coach | Nikola Višňová Matteo Zanni |
Former coach | Barbora Silná Matěj Novák Miroslava Hájková Petra Kepáková Ivan Rezek |
Skating club | VSK Technika Brno |
Training locations | Brno and Prague, Czech Republic Milan, Italy |
Began skating | 2004 |
World standing | 42 (2020–21) 54 (2019–20) 95 (2018–19) 104 (2017–18) |
ISU personal best scores | |
Combined total | 183.55 2022 CS Lombardia Trophy |
Short dance | 75.41 2022 CS Lombardia Trophy |
Free dance | 108.14 2022 CS Lombardia Trophy |
On the junior level, she is the 2019 JGP USA bronze medalist, and has competed in the final segment at three World Junior Championships, their highest placement being fourteenth in 2019. Nationally, she is a three-time Czech national junior champion.[1]
Taschlerová began learning to skate in 2004, and subsequently began learning ice dance alongside her brother Filip following the end of his partnership with Karolína Karlíková.[1] Years later, Taschler would say that "our relationship is better since we started skating together. When we were younger we fought like small kids, but now we are adults. We respect each other."[2]
Taschlerová/Taschler made their international junior debut in the 2017–18 season, including two appearances on the ISU Junior Grand Prix, placing twelfth in Poland and thirteenth in Austria. After winning what would be the first of three Czech junior national titles, they made their first appearance at the World Junior Championships, where they finished eighteenth.[1]
Competing their second season on the Junior Grand Prix, Taschlerová/Taschler were thirteenth at JGP Lithuania and eleventh at their home JGP Czech Republic. They then won their first international junior medals competing at minor events, bronze at the Open d'Andorra and a silver at the junior category at the Inge Solar Memorial. Junior national champions for the second time, they finished the season placing fourteenth at the 2019 World Junior Championships.[1]
In the off-season, Taschlerová/Taschler began training part-time in the United States with Collin Brubaker and Oleg Epstein, in addition to longtime coach Matteo Zanni in Milan.[3] They returned to the Junior Grand Prix, competing first at 2019 JGP United States in Lake Placid, New York. In a significant improvement over their previous two years, they came fourth in the rhythm dance and then overtook Canadians Makita/Gunara in the free dance for the bronze medal.[4] They finished in fifth place at their second JGP in Croatia.[1]
Following the Junior Grand Prix, Taschlerová/Taschler elected to make their international senior debut, winning the silver medal at the Open d'Andorra and thereby obtaining the technical minimum qualifications to attend their first European Figure Skating Championships, where they finished in nineteenth position. They attended a third senior event, coming eighth at the Egna Trophy.[1]
Winning the Czech junior title for the third time, they were again their country's entry to the World Junior Championships. Taschlerová fell out of her twizzle at the beginning of the rhythm dance, landing them in nineteenth place in that segment.[5] They rose to sixteenth position following the free dance.[1] Taschlerová/Taschler had been assigned to make their senior World Championship debut at the 2020 World Championships in Montreal, but these were cancelled due to the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.[6]
Due to the pandemic, the siblings were unable to continue training in the United States under Epstein and Brubaker, and entered the season with only Zanni as their coach.[7] They began their first full senior season at the 2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, their first Challenger event, which due to the pandemic was attended only by European teams largely training in the area.[8] Taschlerová/Taschler won the gold medal.[9] They attended their second Egna Trophy, also winning gold there.[1]
To conclude the season, Taschlerová/Taschler competed at the 2021 World Championships in Stockholm, where they placed twenty-second in the rhythm dance, and did not advance to the free dance.[1] As a result, they did not qualify a berth for the Czech Republic at the coming Winter Olympics on the first of two opportunities to do so.[10]
Taschlerová/Taschler began the new season on the Challenger series, placing fifth with new personal bests at the 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy.[1] In continued pursuit of an Olympic spot, they were next assigned as the Czech entry to the 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, the second and final opportunity for dancers to qualify to the Olympic Games. They were second in the rhythm dance with another new personal best, but dropped to fifth after the free dance due to a twizzle error, but their placement was sufficient to clinch the fourth of four available berths at the 2022 Winter Olympics.[11] Afterward, their federation formally named them to the Czech Olympic team.[12]
After winning the Pavel Roman Memorial and placing sixth at the 2021 CS Warsaw Cup, Taschlerová/Taschler won the Czech national title (finishing second overall at the 2022 Four National Championships). They were assigned to the 2022 European Championships in Tallinn and finished eleventh, qualifying to the free dance for the first time.[1]
Taschlerová/Taschler began the 2022 Winter Olympics as the Czech entries in the rhythm dance segment of the Olympic team event. They placed sixth in the segment, securing five points for the Czech team. This was the highest Czech placement on day one of the event.[13] Ultimately the Czech team did not advance to the second stage of the competition and finished eighth overall.[14] In the dance event, Taschlerová/Taschler placed seventeenth and qualified to the free dance.[15] They moved up one place in the free dance, finishing sixteenth.[16]
The team concluded the season at the 2022 World Championships, held in Montpellier with Russian dance teams absent due to the International Skating Union banning all Russian athletes due to their country's invasion of Ukraine.[17] Taschlerová/Taschler finished thirteenth.[1]
Season | Rhythm dance | Free dance |
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2022–2023 [18] |
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2021–2022 [19] |
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2020–2021 [7] |
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2019–2020 [3] |
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2018–2019 [20] |
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Short dance | ||
2017–2018 [21] |
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2016–2017 |
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GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
International[1] | |||||||
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Event | 16–17 | 17–18 | 18–19 | 19–20 | 20–21 | 21–22 | 22–23 |
Olympics | 16th | ||||||
Worlds | C | 22nd | 13th | ||||
Europeans | 19th | 11th | |||||
GP Finland | TBD | ||||||
GP Wilson Trophy | TBD | ||||||
CS Cup of Tyrol | C | ||||||
CS Finlandia | 4th | ||||||
CS Lombardia | 5th | 3rd | |||||
CS Nebelhorn | 1st | 5th | WD | ||||
CS Warsaw Cup | WD | 6th | |||||
Cup of Nice | WD | ||||||
Egna Trophy | 8th | 1st | |||||
Open d'Andorra | 2nd | ||||||
Pavel Roman Memorial | 1st | ||||||
International: Junior[1] | |||||||
Junior Worlds | 18th | 14th | 16th | ||||
JGP Austria | 13th | ||||||
JGP Croatia | 5th | ||||||
JGP Czech Rep. | 11th | ||||||
JGP Lithuania | 13th | ||||||
JGP Poland | 12th | ||||||
JGP USA | 3rd | ||||||
Bavarian Open | 4th | 6th | |||||
Halloween Cup | 2nd | ||||||
Inge Solar | 2nd | ||||||
Leo Scheu | 5th | ||||||
Open d'Andorra | 3rd | ||||||
Pavel Roman | 4th | ||||||
Santa Claus Cup | 14th | ||||||
International: Advanced novice | |||||||
Pavel Roman | 2nd | ||||||
National[1] | |||||||
Czech Champ. | 1st J | 1st J | 1st J | WD | 1st | ||
Four Nationals | 1st J | 1st J | 1st J | WD | 2nd | ||
Team events | |||||||
Olympics | 8th T 6th P | ||||||
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew; C = Event Canceled J = Junior level |
Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships.
2022–2023 season | ||||
Date | Event | RD | FD | Total |
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October 4–9, 2022 | 2022 CS Finlandia Trophy | 4 72.79 |
TBD |
TBD |
September 16–19, 2022 | 2022 CS Lombardia Trophy | 2 75.41 |
3 108.14 |
3 183.55 |
2021–2022 season | ||||
Date | Event | RD | FD | Total |
March 21–27, 2022 | 2022 World Championships | 11 72.55 |
14 99.68 |
13 172.23 |
February 12–14, 2022 | 2022 Winter Olympics | 17 67.22 |
17 101.10 |
16 168.32 |
February 4–7, 2022 | 2022 Winter Olympics — Team event | 6 68.99 |
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January 10–16, 2022 | 2022 European Championships | 11 69.72 |
13 102.67 |
11 172.39 |
December 17–18, 2021 | 2022 Four National Championships | 2 73.27 |
1 106.68 |
2 181.09 |
November 17–20, 2021 | 2021 CS Warsaw Cup | 5 73.22 |
8 102.26 |
6 175.48 |
November 4–7, 2021 | 2021 Pavel Roman Memorial | 1 71.91 |
1 108.95 |
1 180.86 |
September 22–25, 2021 | 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy | 2 70.51 |
5 102.47 |
5 172.98 |
September 10–12, 2021 | 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy | 5 68.45 |
4 104.29 |
5 172.74 |
2020–2021 season | ||||
Date | Event | RD | FD | Total |
March 22–28, 2021 | 2021 World Championships | 22 64.00 |
DNQ | 22 64.00 |
February 6–7, 2021 | 2021 Egna Dance Trophy | 1 72.11 |
1 106.37 |
1 178.48 |
September 23–26, 2020 | 2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy | 1 64.28 |
1 99.34 |
1 163.62 |
2019–2020 season | ||||
Date | Event | RD | FD | Total |
February 7–9, 2020 | 2020 Egna Dance Trophy | 6 61.71 |
9 85.39 |
8 147.10 |
January 20–26, 2020 | 2020 European Championships | 17 62.53 |
18 91.77 |
19 154.30 |
November 20–24, 2019 | 2019 Open d'Andorra | 2 63.80 |
2 101.89 |
2 165.69 |
2019–2020 season | ||||
Date | Event | RD | FD | Total |
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March 2–8, 2020 | 2020 World Junior Championships | 19 52.80 |
16 81.78 |
16 134.58 |
December 14–15, 2019 | 2020 Four National Championships | 1 60.89 |
1 94.72 |
1 155.61 |
October 17–20, 2019 | 2019 Halloween Cup | 3 54.61 |
1 92.17 |
2 146.78 |
Septembers 25–28, 2019 | 2019 JGP Croatia | 6 57.94 |
6 88.36 |
5 146.30 |
August 28–31, 2019 | 2019 JGP United States | 4 60.69 |
3 89.31 |
3 150.00 |
2018–2019 season | ||||
Date | Event | RD | FD | Total |
March 4–10, 2019 | 2019 World Junior Championships | 16 51.02 |
14 80.89 |
14 131.91 |
February 5–10, 2019 | 2019 Bavarian Open | 7 51.70 |
6 80.43 |
6 132.13 |
December 14–15, 2018 | 2019 Four National Championships | 1 54.07 |
1 84.12 |
1 138.19 |
Nov. 29 – Dec. 2, 2018 | 2018 Open d'Andorra | 3 51.87 |
2 80.42 |
3 132.29 |
November 12–18, 2018 | 2018 Inge Solar Alpen Trophy | 5 45.80 |
2 78.54 |
2 124.34 |
November 9–11 November 2018 | 2018 Pavel Roman Memorial | 6 51.28 |
3 80.66 |
4 131.94 |
September 26–29, 2018 | 2018 JGP Czech Republic (Czech Skate) | 12 49.18 |
12 76.30 |
11 125.48 |
September 5–8, 2018 | 2018 JGP Lithuania (Amber Cup) | 10 46.62 |
15 60.13 |
13 106.75 |
2017–2018 season | ||||
Date | Event | SD | FD | Total |
March 5–11, 2018 | 2018 World Junior Championships | 16 50.25 |
18 60.05 |
18 110.30 |
January 26–31, 2018 | 2018 Bavarian Open | 3 47.40 |
4 65.97 |
4 113.37 |
December 14–17, 2017 | 2018 Four National Championships | 2 47.03 |
2 62.11 |
2 109.14 |
December 4–10, 2017 | 2017 Santa Claus Cup | 9 45.06 |
17 54.55 |
14 99.61 |
November 8–12, 2017 | 2017 Leo Scheu Memorial (Ice Challenge) | 5 37.96 |
4 62.16 |
5 100.12 |
October 4–7, 2017 | 2017 JGP Poland (Baltic Cup) | 11 46.05 |
13 59.28 |
12 105.33 |
Aug. 30 – Sept. 2, 2017 | 2017 JGP Austria | 14 36.30 |
11 53.19 |
13 89.49 |