Matěj Novák (born 6 November 1989) is a Czech 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 former partner

Lucie Myslivečková Lucie Myslivečková (born 8 December 1989) is a Czech and Slovak former competitive ice dancer. Representing Slovakia with Lukáš Csölley, she competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Earlier in her career, she represen ...

, he is the 2010 Golden Spin of Zagreb champion and the 2011 Czech national champion. He currently competes with

Gabriela Kubová Gabriela Kubová (born 9 May 1993) is a Czech ice dancer who competes with Matěj Novák. With former partner Dmitri Kiselev, she is the 2012 Czech national champion. Career Early in her career, Kubová skated with Petr Seknička. They compe ...

Career

Myslivečkova and Novák won a silver and bronze on the Junior Grand Prix circuit. They finished as high as 8th at Junior Worlds in

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and debuted at senior Worlds in the same season. They were 21st at the 2009 World Championships. Myslivečkova and Novák made their senior Grand Prix debut in the 2009–2010 season, finishing 7th at the

Cup of Russia The Rostelecom Cup (russian: Кубок Ростелекома), formerly the Cup of Russia (russian: Кубок России), is an international, senior-level figure skating competition held as part of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating seri ...

and 9th at the

NHK Trophy The NHK Trophy is an international, senior-level figure skating competition held as part of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating series. Organized by the Japanese Skating Federation, it began in 1979 and was added to the Grand Prix series in 199 ...

. They moved up to 16th at Worlds. During the 2010–2011 season, they won silver at the

Ondrej Nepela Memorial The Nepela Memorial ( sk, Memoriál Ondreja Nepelu), formerly known as the Ondrej Nepela Trophy in 2013–15 & 2017 and the Ondrej Nepela Memorial, is an annual senior-level international figure skating competition. Named after Figure skating at t ...

, finished 6th at the

and 5th at the

. They won their first international title at the

2010 Golden Spin of Zagreb The 2010 Golden Spin of Zagreb ( hr, Zlatna pirueta Zagreba) was the 43rd edition of an annual senior-level figure skating competition held in Zagreb, Croatia. It was held at the Dom Sportova between December 9 and 11, 2010 as part of the 2010� ...

. Following the 2010-11 season, Novak decided to retire from competitive skating to do ballroom dancing. In 2012, Novák decided to return to ice dancing, teaming up with

Programs

With Kubová

With Myslivečková

Competitive highlights

With Kubová

With Myslivečková

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Novak, Matej Czech male ice dancers 1989 births Living people Sportspeople from Pardubice