Timothy Goebel

Timothy Goebel is an American former competitive figure skater, born in 1980, who won the bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics. He was the first skater to land a quadruple Salchow in competition and the first to land three quadruple jumps in one program, and he landed 76 quadruple jumps in competition before he retired in 2006. At the 2002 Olympics he became the first skater to land a quadruple Salchow in combination in Olympic competition. Early in his career critics said he focused on jumping at the cost of choreography and presentation, and he worked to improve those later. Injuries after 2003 made his jumps less reliable, and he fell short of the 2006 Olympic team.