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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
Taschlerová / Taschler at the 2020 European Championships
Personal information
Country represented	Czech Republic
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]

Career

Early career

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]

2019–2020 season: JGP medal & senior debut

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]

2020–2021 season: Worlds debut

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]

2021–2022 season: Beijing Olympics

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]

Programs

With Taschler

Season	Rhythm dance	Free dance
2022–2023 [18]	Samba: Hips Don't Lie by Shakira Rhumba: Hero by Enrique Iglesias Samba: Hips Don't Lie by Shakira choreo. by Matteo Zanni	On the Nature of Daylight by Max Richter Run by Ludovico Einaudi Early Morning Fog by Jacob Shea and Jasha Klebe choreo. by Matteo Zanni
2021–2022 [19]	Music Dance 2Night by Madonna arranged by Matteo Zanni Give Me All Your Luvin' by M.I.A., Madonna, Nicki Minaj choreo. by Matteo Zanni	Yuyo Verde by Domingo Federico, Homero Expósito Oblivion Primavera Porteña by Astor Piazzolla choreo. by Matteo Zanni
2020–2021 [7]	Swing: Walk Like a Man Foxtrot: Can't Take My Eyes Off You Swing: December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) (from Jersey Boys) by Bob Crewe, Bob Gaudio, Judy Parker choreo. by Matteo Zanni	Yuyo Verde by Domingo Federico, Homero Expósito Oblivion Primavera Porteña by Astor Piazzolla choreo. by Matteo Zanni
2019–2020 [3]	Quickstep: Entr'act Slow Fox: 'S Wonderful (from An American in Paris) by George Gershwin Quickstep: You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me (from 42nd Street) by Al Dubin, Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren	Place de la Republique by Coeur de Pirate Sand by Nathan Lanier
2018–2019 [20]	Tango: Tu Sentimiento performed by Tango Jointz Flamenco: Consedor Flamenco Street music: Ramalama (Bang Bang) by Róisín Murphy, Matthew Herbet	Believer by Imagine Dragons Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol
	Short dance
2017–2018 [21]	Cha-cha: Cha Charanga by El Rubio Loco Rhumba: Temptation performed by Tom Waits Merengue: Bailar by Elvis Crespo, Erick Orrosquieta, Robert Fernández	Over the Rainbow by Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg In This Shirt by The Irrepressibles
2016–2017		Freedom (from Django Unchained) by Anthony Hamilton and Elayna Boynton Lo chiamavano King by Luis Bacalov

Competitive highlights

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

With Taschler

International[1]
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

Detailed results

Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships.

With Taschler

Senior results

2022–2023 season
Date	Event	RD	FD	Total
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	—	8T
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

Junior results

2019–2020 season
Date	Event	RD	FD	Total
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

References

External links

• Natálie Taschlerová / Filip Taschler at the International Skating Union
• Natálie Taschlerová at Olympedia
• Natálie Taschlerová at Olympics.com
• Natálie Taschlerová at Olympijskytym.cz (in Czech)

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