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Goebel competes at the 2001 Grand Prix Final in Kitchener, Ontario.
Personal information
Full name	Timothy Richard Goebel
Country represented	United States
Born	(1980-09-10) September 10, 1980 (age 44) Evanston, Illinois
Home town	Fairfax, Virginia
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Retired	April 25, 2006

Timothy Richard Goebel (born September 10, 1980) is an American former competitive figure skater. He is the 2002 Olympic bronze medalist. He was the first person to land a quadruple salchow jump in competition and the first person to land three quadruple jumps in one program. He landed 76 career quadruple jumps before his retirement in 2006.

Personal life

Goebel was born on September 10, 1980, in Evanston, Illinois. He was adopted through Catholic Charities by Ginny and Richard Goebel as an infant.

Goebel initially attended Loyola Marymount University. Beginning in the fall of 2006, he studied at Columbia University's School of General Studies, graduating in May 2010 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. After working for the Nielsen ratings company, he joined an ad agency, MEC, as a consumer analyst. As of April 2016, he was pursuing a master's degree in data science from New York University Stern School of Business. In January 2017, he began working as a data analyst for Google.

In April 2016, Goebel became engaged to his boyfriend of three years, Thomas Luciano. They married on April 29, 2017, in Newport, Rhode Island.

Career

Early in his career, Goebel was coached by Carol Heiss Jenkins and Glyn Watts near his Illinois home and then moved to California to work with Frank Carroll.

During his skating career and prior to the arrival of Nathan Chen to the sport, Goebel was sometimes referred to as the "Quad King" because of his ability to land quadruple jumps. On March 7, 1998, in Lausanne, Switzerland, at the Junior Grand Prix Final, Goebel became the first skater in the world to land a quadruple Salchow, and the first American skater to land a quadruple jump of any kind in competition. International Skating Union officials ratified the jump at the end of the month after watching a video provided by the parents of Tiffany Stiegler / Johnnie Stiegler.

On October 31, 1999, at the 1999 Skate America in Colorado Springs, Goebel became the first skater to land three quads in one program. In the free skate, he landed a quad salchow in combination, a quad toe loop, and a quad salchow as a solo jump.

Goebel also made history at the 2002 Olympics by becoming the first skater to successfully land a quad Salchow in combination in Olympic competition. Goebel's repertoire of quadruple jumps made him one of the most competitive skaters in the world during the peak of his career. He would land a total of 76 quads in competition. Goebel was heavily criticized early in his career for focusing exclusively on jumping to the detriment of choreography and presentation, but in later years he improved in those areas.

Goebel increasingly struggled with his jumps after 2003 due to injuries. At the 2006 U.S. Championships, in what he had previously announced would be his last competitive season, he was unable to land either a quadruple jump or triple Axel cleanly, and dropped to a seventh-place finish which left him far short of qualifying for the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Goebel represented the Winterhurst Figure Skating Club. He was coached by Audrey Weisiger in Fairfax, Virginia, after having been previously coached by Carol Heiss Jenkins, Glyn Watts and Frank Carroll.

On April 25, 2006, Goebel announced his retirement from competitive skating. He planned to continue to contribute to the sport as a technical specialist, having received certification for competitions sanctioned by the United States Figure Skating Association. He worked as a technical specialist at the Aviator Figure Skating Academy in New York.

He attended Columbia University, graduating in 2010 with a degree in mathematics. In 2016, he received a Master of Science in Business Analytics degree from New York University Stern School of Business, and currently works for Google as a Marketing Mix Modeling Partner Program Manager.

Programs

Goebel performs a hydroblade, one of his signature moves, in 2003.

Competitive highlights

Detailed results

Senior level

Results in the 1996–97 season 

Date	Event	SP		FS		Total
		P	Score	P	Score	P	Score
Aug 23–28, 1996	1996 Grand Prix International St. Gervais		–		–	2	–
Jan 13–21, 1996	1997 U.S. Championships	10	–	6	–	6	–

Results in the 1997–98 season 

Date	Event	SP		FS		Total
		P	Score	P	Score	P	Score
Aug 26–29, 1997	1997 Nebelhorn Trophy	1	–	1	–	1	–

Results in the 1998–99 season 

Date	Event	SP		FS		Total
		P	Score	P	Score	P	Score
Feb 7–14, 1999	1999 U.S. Championships	2	–	3	–	3	–
Feb 21–28, 1999	1999 Four Continents Championships	12	–	13	–	13	–
Mar 20–28, 1999	1999 World Championships	13	–	12	–	12	–

Results in the 1999–2000 season 

Date	Event	SP		FS		Total
		P	Score	P	Score	P	Score
Oct 27–31, 1999	1999 Skate America	3	–	2	–	2	–
Dec 2–5, 1999	1999 NHK Trophy	2	–	2	–	2	–
Jan 13–16, 2000	1999–2000 Grand Prix Final	5	–	4	–	3	–
Feb 6–13, 2000	2000 U.S. Championships	2	–	2	–	2	–
Mar 23 – Apr 3, 2000	2000 World Championships	7	–	10	–	11	–

Results in the 2000–01 season 

Date	Event	SP		FS		Total
		P	Score	P	Score	P	Score
Oct 26–29, 2000	2000 Skate America	2	–	1	–	1	–
Nov 9–12, 2000	2000 Sparkassen Cup on Ice	2	–	2	–	2	–
Feb 15–18, 2001	2000–01 Grand Prix Final	5	–	5	–	5	–
Jan 14–21, 2001	2001 U.S. Championships	3	–	1	–	1	–
Mar 17–25, 2001	2001 World Championships	4	–	4	–	4	–

Results in the 2001–02 season 

Date	Event	SP		FS		Total
		P	Score	P	Score	P	Score
Oct 24–28, 2001	2001 Skate America	1	–	1	–	1	–
Nov 9–11, 2001	2001 Sparkassen Cup on Ice	2	–	2	–	2	–
Dec 13–16, 2001	2001–02 Grand Prix Final	3	–	3	–	3	–
Jan 6–13, 2002	2002 U.S. Championships	1	–	2	–	2	–
Feb 9–21, 2002	2002 Winter Olympics	3	–	3	–	3	–
Mar 16–24, 2002	2002 World Championships	4	–	2	–	2	–

Results in the 2002–03 season 

Date	Event	SP		FS		Total
		P	Score	P	Score	P	Score
Jan 6–13, 2003	2003 U.S. Championships	1	–	3	–	2	–
Mar 24–30, 2003	2003 World Championships	2	–	2	–	2	–

Results in the 2003–04 season 

Date	Event	SP		FS		Total
		P	Score	P	Score	P	Score
Nov 6–9, 2003	2003 Cup of China	2	–	1	–	1	–
Nov 27–30, 2003	2003 NHK Trophy	1	–	2	–	2	–

Results in the 2004–05 season 

Date	Event	SP		FS		Total
		P	Score	P	Score	P	Score
Nov 4–7, 2004	2004 NHK Trophy	2	–	2	–	2	–
Jan 9–16, 2005	2005 U.S. Championships	1	–	2	–	2	–
Mar 14–20, 2005	2005 World Championships	14	–	9	–	10	–

Results in the 2005–06 season 

Date	Event	SP		FS		Total
		P	Score	P	Score	P	Score
Oct 20–23, 2005	2005 Skate America	6	–	8	–	6	–
Nov 17–20, 2005	2005 Trophée Éric Bompard	4	–	6	–	4	–
Jan 7–15, 2006	2006 U.S. Championships	5	–	8	–	7	–

Junior level

Results in the 1994–95 season 

Date	Event	SP		FS		Total
		P	Score	P	Score	P	Score
Nov 21–27, 1994	1995 World Junior Championships	17	–	12	–	14	–
Jan 6–13, 1995	1995 U.S. Championships (Junior)	6	–	5	–	5	–

Results in the 1995–96 season 

Date	Event	SP		FS		Total
		P	Score	P	Score	P	Score
Nov 26 – Dec 2, 1995	1996 World Junior Championships	12	–	6	–	7	–
Jan 13–21, 1996	1996 U.S. Championships (Junior)	1	–	1	–	1	–

Results in the 1996–97 season 

Date	Event	SP		FS		Total
		P	Score	P	Score	P	Score
Nov 24 – Dec 1, 1996	1997 World Junior Championships	5	–	2	–	2	–

Results in the 1997–98 season 

Date	Event	SP		FS		Total
		P	Score	P	Score	P	Score
Aug 19–23, 1997	1997 JS Grand Prix de Saint Gervais		–		–	1	–
Sep 25–28, 1997	1997 JS Ukrainian Souvenir		–		–	1	–
Mar 5–8, 1998	1997–98 Junior Series Final	4	–	1	–	1	–