The Official Web page of :
2000 German Silver
Medallist
March 2003/June 2003 Message from Webmaster:
I recently had a chance to speak with Michael and got a chance
to find out what he is doing now. Since leaving Mariposa and the
competitive skating circuit Michael went back to Germany and starting coaching.
There is alot of information on what's new, and I am in the process of
transcribing my interview with him. Please come back soon or email me and
let me know you would like to be notified when this site is updated.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Have a question that you have wanted to ask Michael?
Please submit questions for Michael to me (Lisa, webmaster). Michael is
very interested in answering fans questions......
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| Lisa and Michael 2001 (first
visit back to Canada) |
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Michael on recent visit at
Timm's 2003 |
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above by JB Mitten
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Color: Blue
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Food: Italian |
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Snack: German Chocolate |
Junk Food:
Pizza and "a really good hamburger." |
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Book Genre:
Mysteries |
Movie: Gladiator |
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traveled: Australia and Bali Indonesia. |
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Music:
all kinds. I listen to everything Kyle Minog, Sting,
Desert Rose |
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Animal:
my dog, snoopy (a white chiwawa) I got it here in Canada.
I love animals, I had a snake, water dragon, guinea
pigs....but I just have a dog now, I would like to have an aquarium with sea
water but its expensive, maybe later. I went to a place today (the
aquarium emporium) its beautiful in there, they were feeding lil sharks with
gold fishes. It was crazy |
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Favorite time of year:
Summer "I don’t like
winter, In Germany it’s always so wet and cold. You're always cold on the rink, and
you're always cold going out, you just want it to be warm, so I just love the
summer." |
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TV Show:
anything to do with animals (Discovery Channel) and Steve Erkle from Family Matters,
he’s stupid but I like him.
Shows like Pop stars, there are some sweet characters in there |
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| Competition |
Placement |
Competition |
Placement |
| 2000
German Nationals |
2 |
1997 Nationals |
2 |
| Sparkassen
Cup 1999 |
11 |
1996 Germany Cup |
1 |
| Skate
America |
9 |
1996 Barvarian Championships |
1 |
| Octoberfest
1999 |
1 |
1996 Nationals |
3 |
| 1999
German Nationals |
3 |
1995 Barvarian Championships |
1 |
| 1998
Skate Canada |
9 |
1994 Barvarian Championships |
1 |
| 1998
Skate America |
7 |
1993
Junior Worlds |
14 |
| 1998 Germany Cup |
1 |
1992 Junior Worlds |
12 |
| 1997 Nations Cup |
10 |
1990 German Junior Champion |
1 |
| 1997 Worlds |
21 |
1989 German Junior Champion |
1 |
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Michael started skating when he
was 9 years old. |
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How old were you when you landed your first triple jump, which one was
it? First jump was a waltz Jump, first triple salchow (I was very
old) about 15 years old |
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When asked who is idol is, he replied, "It was
Victor Petrenko," and now who is it? "It’s difficult to say, I think
Elvis of
course he’s a sportsman, not just his jumps and not just his performance, its his
practicing and everything. I think he’s a real athlete, he doesn’t drink, he
doesn’t smoke, he works very hard. I’ve never seen a man that works so
hard." |
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His coach is Doug
Leigh in Canada. Michael used Dragon Heart in 1998 for his free
program and Yanni for his short. |
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His favorite program
to perform is his new short program for this year, Lord of the Dance.
"It’s something special, I like it. I saw Lord of the Dance and Daniel Wiess
from the Lord of the dance Choreographed the program for me. It’s very hard
to skate but I love it, it’s different." |
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Michael would like to
go pro after the amateur circuit…"If I’m good enough...then why not."
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When recently asked
(2003) if he would perform in Stars on Ice or another kind of
tour he said he would like to do something like that. Michael loves to
perform and is a real crowd pleaser! |
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Michael
collects all the gift thrown and given to him from competitions and has
quite a collection.
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I had the great pleasure of
watching Michael and most of the rest of Mariposa's STARS compete in this years
Octoberfest (1999). It was wonderful to watch Michael, Takeshi, Markus and Gules compete
head to head. Michael gained crowd appreciation once again this year with his stunning
foot work in his version of Lord of the Dance. It won him 1st place! All my other fav's at
Mariposa did great too, it was hard to root for one over the other so I didn't! But I was
really glad to be in attendance for his awesome performances. |
| Takeshi Honda and
Michael Hopfes |
This page was
the cool site of the month for November/December 1998 on the Unofficial Todd Eldredge
Page.
All pictures are the
property of Lisa and can't be duplicated without permission. Pictures in competition by K.
Stickel
Updated:
June 05, 2003 08:19:24 PM