Robin Szolkowy

Robin Szolkowy
Savchenko and Szolkowy at the 2010 World Championships
Personal information
Country represented	Germany
Born	(1979-07-14) 14 July 1979 (age 37) Greifswald, East Germany
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Former partner	Aliona Savchenko, Claudia Rauschenbach, Johanna Otto
Former coach	Ingo Steuer
Former choreographer	Ingo Steuer, David Wilson
Skating club	Chemnitzer EC
Former training locations	Chemnitz Dresden
Began skating	1983
Retired	March 27, 2014
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	227.03 2013–14 Grand Prix Final
Short program	79.64 2014 Winter Olympics
Free skate	147.57 2013–14 Grand Prix Final
Medal record Representing  Germany Figure skating: Pairs Olympic Games 2010 Vancouver Pairs 2014 Sochi Pairs World Championships 2008 Gothenburg Pairs 2009 Los Angeles Pairs 2011 Moscow Pairs 2012 Nice Pairs 2014 Saitama Pairs 2010 Turin Pairs 2013 London Pairs 2007 Tokyo Pairs European Championships 2007 Warsaw Pairs 2008 Zagreb Pairs 2009 Helsinki Pairs 2011 Bern Pairs 2006 Lyon Pairs 2010 Tallinn Pairs 2013 Zagreb Pairs Grand Prix Final 2007–08 Turin Pairs 2010–11 Beijing Pairs 2011–12 Quebec Pairs 2013–14 Fukuoka Pairs 2006–07 St. Petersburg Pairs 2005–06 Tokyo Pairs 2009–10 Tokyo Pairs 2008–09 Goyang Pairs

Robin Szolkowy (born 14 July 1979) is a German pair skater. With partner Aliona Savchenko, he is the 2010 and 2014 Olympic bronze medalist, a five-time World champion (2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014), a four-time European champion (2007–2009, 2011), a four-time Grand Prix Final champion (2007, 2010, 2011, 2013), and an eight-time German national champion (2004–2009, 2011, 2014).

Savchenko and Szolkowy scored the first 10.0 ever given by a judge under the ISU Judging System.

Szolkowy was born in Greifswald, , East Germany. His mother, a nurse, met his father, a Tanzanian medical doctor, when the latter was a student in Greifswald. Although he had seen photos of his father, the two did not meet until March 2008, in Vienna, Austria. Szolkowy married Romy Born, who is originally from Zürich, on 1 August 2014 in Chemnitz. On 11 May 2015, it was announced that Born and Szolkowy were expecting their first child together, due in September. Their son, Henry, was born on 14 September 2015.