Tim Dieck (born 7 April 1996) is a German competitive

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. With his former skating partner

Katharina Müller Katharina Müller (born 12 September 1995) is a German competitive ice dancer. With her skating partner Tim Dieck, she is a two-time German national champion and has won many senior international medals, including two silver medals on the ISU Ch ...

, he is a two-time German national champion and has won many senior international medals, including two silver medals on the

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and three gold medals at the German

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. They have represented Germany at the

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and

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championships. In December 2022, it was announced that Dieck had teamed up with British-Spanish ice dancer

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Personal life

Tim Dieck was born on 7 April 1996 in

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, Germany. His parents, Martina and Frieder, are involved in figure skating as a coach and judge, respectively, and his sister, Dominique, formerly competed in ice dancing. As of 2017, he is studying sports science at

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. He is a soldier-athlete in the

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Career

Early career

Dieck started skating in 2000 and took up ice dancing in 2011. He skated with Dana Wehner in the 2011–12 season. They placed ninth at the 2012 German Junior Championships. In 2012–13, Dieck began competing with Florence Clarke. They were fifth at the 2013 German Junior Championships. The following season, they debuted on the

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series, finishing ninth in

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, Latvia and fifteenth in

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, Poland. They were also assigned to the 2014 World Junior Championships in

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, Bulgaria, but were eliminated after placing twenty-seventh in the short dance. Clarke decided to retire at the end of the season.

2014–15 season

Vitali Schulz arranged a tryout between Dieck and

. They teamed up in April 2014, coached by Schulz und James Young in

. Assigned to two

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events, they placed eighth in

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, Slovenia, and seventh in

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, Japan. After winning the 2015 German junior national title, they were sent to the 2015 World Junior Championships in

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, Estonia; ranked thirteenth in the short dance, they qualified for the final segment and finished twelfth overall.

2015–16 season

Competing in the Challenger Series (CS), Müller/Dieck finished tenth in September at the 2015 Nebelhorn Trophy – their first senior international – and eighth the following month at the 2015 Mordovian Ornament. In November, they won bronze at the 2015 NRW Trophy before appearing at their third CS event, the 2015 Tallinn Trophy, where they placed fifth. They were awarded the silver medal at the German Championships in December, having finished second to

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/ Polizoakis, and took bronze at the

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. Müller/Dieck were included in Germany's team to the 2016 European Championships in

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, Slovakia, but were eliminated after placing twenty-third in the short dance. In spring 2016, Müller/Dieck began training under

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, in addition to Schulz and Young in Dortmund.

2016–17 season

Müller/Dieck competed at two Challenger events, placing twelfth at the 2016 CS U.S. Classic and ninth at the 2016 CS Nebelhorn Trophy. They won gold at the

for the first time, and were the German national silver medalists for the second consecutive year.

2017–18 season

Competing three times on the Challenger series, Müller/Dieck were fifth at the

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, sixth at the 2017 CS Ice Star, and eleventh at the 2017 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb. They won the silver medal at the German championships for the third consecutive year.

2018–19 season

Again competing on the Challenger series three times, Müller/Dieck were seventh at both the 2018 CS Nebelhorn Trophy and the 2018 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb and ninth at the 2018 CS Ondrej Nepela Trophy. They were invited to make their

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debut, placing seventh at the 2018 Skate America and tenth at the 2018 Grand Prix of Helsinki.

champions for the second time, they then won their fourth consecutive silver medal at the German championships.

2019–20 season

Müller/Dieck's three Challenger competitions for the year were the 2019 CS Ondrej Nepela Memorial, the 2019 CS Ice Star and the

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, where they placed eighth, sixth and sixth, respectively. They did not return to the

, but won the inaugural

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and the

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, followed by becoming German national champions for the first time. Müller/Dieck attended the

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for the first time in four seasons, placing thirteenth. They were supposed to make their

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debut at the 2020 edition in

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, but these were cancelled as a result of the

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2020–21 season

Despite the continued limitations of the pandemic on international competition, Müller/Dieck won their first Challenger medal, a silver at the 2020 CS Budapest Trophy, as well as their third gold medal at the

. Repeating as German national champions, they went on to make their World Championship debut at the

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, where they came in eighteenth. This result qualified a berth for a German ice dance team at the

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2021–22 season

Müller/Dieck began the season at the

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, winning the silver medal. Dieck noted that it was "always special to win a medal in Germany," while Müller said, "we were not competing for an Olympic spot here, but it was important to us for our national qualification and to prove that we are ready and want to go to the Olympic Games." They came ninth at the

2021 CS Finlandia Trophy The 2021 CS Finlandia Trophy was held on October 7–10, 2021 in Espoo, Finland. It was part of the 2021–22 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of single skating, men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, pairs, and ...

. Initially assigned to the

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on the

, upon its cancellation Müller/Dieck were reassigned to the

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. They finished in eighth place. They were sixth at the 2021 CS Cup of Austria and second at the

. Despite losing the German national title to rivals

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/ Steffan, Müller/Dieck were named to the German Olympic team. They first competed at the 2022 European Championships, finishing in twelfth place. Müller/Dieck began the

as the German entries in the rhythm dance segment of the Olympic team event, where they finished tenth among ten. In the dance event, they were twenty-first in the rhythm dance, missing the cut for the free dance. The team encountered new difficulties following the Olympics, as

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and resultant tensions between Russia and Germany resulted in their being unable to return to their Moscow training location. Dieck and Müller later separated, and Dieck teamed up with

to skate for Germany. From April 2023, they hope to prepare for the 2023–2024 season in Montreal.

Programs

With Müller

With Clarke

Competitive highlights

''GP:

; CS: Challenger Series; JGP:

With Müller

With Clarke

With Wehner

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dieck, Tim 1996 births German male ice dancers Living people Sportspeople from Dortmund Competitors at the 2017 Winter Universiade Competitors at the 2019 Winter Universiade Figure skaters at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic figure skaters of Germany