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My Take
Silvio Smalun represents the kind of durable competitor I always end up rooting for. A two-time German national champion in 2001 and 2003, with a bronze at the 2003 Bofrost Cup and a career-best 8th at the 2006 European Championships, he carved out a real place in a fiercely competitive era of men's singles. Reaching the free skate at seven ISU Championships is a marker of consistency that flashier resumes often lack. Figure skating punishes you with thousands of falls before any clean program, and the Erfurt native clearly kept getting back up. There's a quiet, Scorpio-like tenacity in that record I genuinely admire.
Overview
Silvio Smalun (born 2 November 1979 in Erfurt, Thuringia) is a German former competitive figure skater. He is the 2003 Bofrost Cup on Ice bronze medalist, the 2000 Ondrej Nepela Memorial bronze medalist, and a two-time (2001 and 2003) German national champion. He reached the free skate at seven ISU Championships, achieving his best result, 8th, at the 2006 Europeans.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Silvio Smalun
- Name (Japanese)
- シルビオ・スマルン
- Reading
- しるびお・すまるん
- Born
- November 2, 1979 (age 46)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Goat
- Origin
- Erfurt, Erfurt Government Region, Germany
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- figure skater
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.