Florian Just
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Katharina Gierok and Florian Just at 2011 European Championships
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| Personal information | |
| Country represented | Germany |
| Born |
28 February 1982 Nürnberg, Bavaria, West Germany |
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
| Former partner | Katharina Gierok, Mari Vartmann, Mariana Kautz |
| Former coach | Karel Fajfr, Knut Schubert, Julia Gnilozubova |
| Skating club | Essener JE |
| Former training locations | Dortmund, Berlin, Munich, Nürnberg |
| ISU personal best scores | |
| Combined total | 118.06 2011 Europeans |
| Short program | 40.70 2011 Europeans |
| Free skate | 77.36 2011 Europeans |
Florian Just (born 28 February 1982 in Nürnberg) is a German former competitive pair skater. With Mari Vartmann, he won four senior international medals and finished seventh at two European Championships. He also won four international medals with Katharina Gierok.
Florian Just began ice skating at the age of five at EC Nürnberg while also practicing artistic roller skating. He appeared on the Junior Grand Prix (JGP) circuit as a single skater. During the 1999 JGP series, he won gold in Zagreb, Croatia, and placed fourth at his second assignment, in Ostrava, Czech Republic. He qualified for the JGP Final, where he finished seventh. He is the only German skater to reach the final in men's singles.
Just was coached by Sieglinde Ruppel and Steffi Ruttkies. He moved to Munich because of the better training available at the Münchener EV. He continued competing in men's singles for five more years before switching to pair skating in Berlin. His first partner was Mariana Kautz.
In January 2004, Just teamed up with Mari-Doris Vartmann. They were coached originally by Julia Gnilozubova. In autumn 2004 they switched to Knut Schubert. They practiced in Dortmund and also in Berlin.
Vartmann/Just became three-time German national medalists and appeared at four ISU Championships, finishing 18th at the 2006 Worlds in Calgary, Alberta, Canada; 7th at the 2007 Europeans in Warsaw, Poland; 18th at the 2007 Worlds in Tokyo, Japan; and 7th at the 2008 Europeans in Zagreb, Croatia. They parted ways just after the 2009 NRW Trophy.
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