Tamar Katz
| Tamar Katz | |
|---|---|
| Personal information | |
| Country represented |
 Israel
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| Born |
September 26, 1990 Dallas, Texas, United States |
| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) |
| Former coach | Mark Mitchell, Peter Johansson, Mary-Lynn Gelderman, Peter Burrows, Galit Chait, Galina Zmievskaia, Anthony Liu |
| Former choreographer | Mark Mitchell, Lea Ann Miller, Nikolai Morozov |
| Skating club | Metula FSC |
| Former training locations | Boston, Massachusetts; Monsey, New York; Metula, Israel; Rockville, Maryland |
| Began skating | 1999 |
| Retired | 2010 |
| ISU personal best scores | |
| Combined total | 126.09 2007 Europeans |
| Short program | 47.15 2007 Europeans |
| Free skate | 79.64 2008 Europeans |
Tamar Katz (Hebrew: תמר כץ, born September 26, 1988) is an Israeli former competitive figure skater. She is the 2005, 2007, and 2008 Israeli national champion.
Tamar Katz was born September 26, 1988 in Dallas, Texas. The daughter of Leora and Yirmi Katz, she was raised with two brothers, Eyal and Ronen. Due to her father's work as a diplomat at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., she resided in Maryland from the age of seven, before settling in Metula, Israel when she was 13. At age 15, she returned to the United States for training opportunities. She began college studies at the University of Pennsylvania in 2010.
In September 2010, her brother, Ronen, was killed in a hit and run accident in New York City.
Katz began skating as an extracurricular activity at the age of 9 and became more serious about skating a year later. She trained in Rockville, Maryland until she was 13, followed by Metula, Israel until age 15, and then in the United States again.
Katz's best season was 2006–07. She won a silver medal at the 2006 Golden Spin of Zagreb, finished a career-best 13th at the 2007 European Championships, and qualified for the free skate at the 2007 World Championships.
In 2008, Katz was 16th at the Europeans and 22nd at Worlds. She sustained a stress fracture to her right foot and a broken hand on December 2008 and missed the 2009 European Championships. She finished 25th at the 2009 World Championships. She was coached by Peter Burrows in Monsey, New York.
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