Anna Carolina Hermann (born 3 January 1988) is a German former competitive

ice dancer Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. Ac ...

. With her brother,

Daniel Hermann Daniel Felix Hermann (born 12 October 1986) is a German former competitive ice dancer. With his sister, Carolina Hermann, he won six senior international medals and the 2009 German national title. They reached the free dance at three ISU Ch ...

, she won six senior international medals and the 2009 German national title. They reached the free dance at three ISU Championships, attaining their best result, tenth, at the 2007 World Junior Championships.

Personal life

Anna Carolina Hermann was born on 3 January 1988 in

Wuppertal Wuppertal (; "''Wupper Dale''") is, with a population of approximately 355,000, the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the 17th-largest city of Germany. It was founded in 1929 by the merger of the cities and to ...

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. She has six siblings, including

. She gave birth to her daughter, Ella Yuna, on 3 February 2016.

Career

The Hermanns started skating in the winter of 1991 and joined Solinger Turnerbund sports club in 1994. In 1997, they teamed up together and began learning

ice dancing Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. Ac ...

, coached by Oleg Ryjkin at the Olympic training centre in

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. They competed on the novice level until the end of the 2002–03 season. In the 2003–04 season, the Hermanns moved up to the junior ranks. They were given two

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assignments and finished ninth at both. They continued to appear on the JGP series during the next three seasons. In 2006–07, they won the German junior national title and were sent to the 2007 World Junior Championships in

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, Germany, where they finished tenth. The Hermanns began competing on the senior level in the 2007–08 season. Making their

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debut, they placed 8th at the

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. They won a silver medal at the

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and bronze at the German Championships. Since Daniel had to study one term abroad for his degree, they spent the summer of 2008 training in Vancouver under

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and his wife Maikki Uotila-Kraatz. In the 2008–09 season, the Hermanns won the German national title ahead of

Nelli Zhiganshina Nelli Nailevna Zhiganshina (russian: Нелли Наильевна Жиганшина; born 31 March 1987) is a Russian-born German ice dancer. With Alexander Gazsi, she is a six-time German national champion (2007, 2011–2015) and has won twel ...

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. They were selected to represent Germany at two ISU Championships and qualified for the free dance at both, finishing 12th at the 2009 Europeans in

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, Finland and 17th at the 2009 Worlds in

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. In 2009–10, the Hermanns finished second to another sibling duo, Christina Beier / William Beier, at the German Championships and were eliminated from the

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, Italy after placing 22nd in the short dance. The Hermanns missed the 2010–11 season due to injury and returned to the ice in March 2011, working with Rene Lohse in Berlin. 2011–12 would be their final season. They won bronze medals at the 2011 Pavel Roman Memorial,

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, and 2012 German Championships and then retired from competition.

Programs

(with Daniel Hermann)

Results

(with Hermann) ''GP:

; JGP:

Junior Grand Prix The ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating (titled the ISU Junior Series in the 1997–98 season) is a series of international junior-level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. Medals are awarded in the disciplines of men ...

References

External links

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Official site
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