Sarah Hecken
| Sarah Hecken | |
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Hecken at the 2009 World Junior Championships.
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| Personal information | |
| Full name | Sarah Stefanie Hecken |
| Country represented | Germany |
| Born |
27 August 1993 Mannheim, Germany |
| Home town | Mannheim, Germany |
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
| Coach | Stefan Lindemann |
| Former coach | Peter Sczypa |
| Choreographer | Edoardo De Bernardis, Frank Dehne |
| Former choreographer | Shanetta Folle |
| Skating club | Mannheimer ERC |
| Training locations | Berlin |
| Began skating | 1996 |
| ISU personal best scores | |
| Combined total | 155.83 2011 World |
| Short program | 55.20 2010 World |
| Free skate | 103.10 2011 World |
Sarah Stefanie Hecken (born 27 August 1993) is a German figure skater. She is a four-time German national champion (2008, 2010, 2011 and 2013) and has won twelve senior international medals, including six gold. She has placed as high as 11th at the World Championships. Her first international victory was at the 2007 Junior Grand Prix event in Germany.
Sarah Stefanie Hecken was born in Mannheim.
Hecken got her first skates when she was only 18 months old. Her first moves on skates were done during summer training in Kaiserslautern. Peter Sczypa became her coach in 1997. At the age of five, she landed her first single axel and at 9 years old, she landed her first double Axel and triple jump (toe loop).
At the age of 10, she skated at the German Novice Championships, which was held as an open competition, where she won the silver medal. Due to her young age, she skated at the Novice Competition again one year later at 11, where she won her first national title.
In the 2005–2006 season, Hecken skated in the youth category and won her second national title. During that season, she skated her first senior competition, the Baden-Württembergische Championship, and won that regional title at the senior level.
2006–2007 was her first national junior year, but she was still too young for international junior competitions. She won her third national title at the German Championships in the junior category. Again, she won the Baden-Württembergische Championship in the senior class.
After placing 13th at the Junior Grand Prix in Vienna, Austria, Hecken rebounded by winning the Junior Grand Prix in Chemnitz, Germany, becoming the first ever German lady to win a Junior Grand Prix event. At that event she landed her 3Toe-3Toe Combination for the first time.
After winning the first and second German Junior Worlds qualifier and the Eisemann Trophy in Stuttgart, Germany, Hecken went on to take her fourth consecutive national title by winning the senior competition at the German Figure Skating Championships in Dresden, becoming the youngest German lady to ever win that title.
Hecken defended her regional title at the Baden-Württembergische Champion for the third time. She also won the senior competition of the 2008 Bavarian Open before heading of to the 2008 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria where she placed 8th.
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