Joseph Jacobsen (born February 9, 1987 in
Anaheim
Anaheim ( ) is a city in northern Orange County, California, part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area. As of the 2020 United States Census, the city had a population of 346,824, making it the most populous city in Orange County, the 10th-most p ...
,
California
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) is an American
pair skater
Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a ...
.
Early in his career, he competed with
Janey Mayne. He teamed up with
Bianca Butler
Bianca Butler (born September 2, 1989 in Laguna Beach, California) is an American pair skater.
She teamed up with Joseph Jacobsen in 2000. They were the 2007 US National junior silver medalists. They qualified for the 2005 Junior Grand Prix Fin ...
in 2000.
[ Butler & Jacobsen were the 2007 US National junior silver medalists. They qualified for the 2005 ]Junior Grand Prix Final
The ISU Junior Grand Prix Final or JGP Final (titled the ISU Junior Series Final in the 1997–98 season) is the culmination of a series of junior-level competitions – the ISU Junior Grand Prix organized by the International Skating Union. Medals ...
in their first year on the circuit, and placed sixth.
Although they placed seventh on the day, they were later moved up a spot to a sixth-place finish at the 2007-2008 Junior Grand Prix Final following the retroactive disqualification of first-place-finishers Vera Bazarova
Vera Yevgenyevna Bazarova (russian: Ве́ра Евге́ньевна База́рова, born 28 January 1993) is a Russian pair skater. With former partner Yuri Larionov, she is the 2012–13 Grand Prix Final silver medalist, a three-time Eur ...
and Yuri Larionov
Yuri Yuryevich Larionov (russian: link=no, Юрий Юрьевич Ларионов, born 19 August 1986) is a Russian pair skater. With former partner Vera Bazarova, he is the 2012–13 Grand Prix Final silver medalist, a three-time European m ...
due to a positive doping sample from Larionov.
Their partnership ended in February 2009.[ Jacobsen teamed up with ]Amanda Dobbs
Amanda J. Dobbs (born August 10, 1993) is an American former competitive figure skater. As a single skater, she placed fourth at the 2010 Four Continents Championships. She also competed in pair skating on the national senior level with Joseph ...
. They won the pewter medal at the 2010 Pacific Coast Sectional Championships to qualify for the 2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships.
Programs
(with Butler)
Competitive highlights
(with Dobbs)
(with Butler)
References
External links
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American male pair skaters
1987 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Anaheim, California
20th-century American people
21st-century American people
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